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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7703436" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Judging by the DMG monster construction rules, WotC's help would only make things worse. The only reason monster construction isn't broken in 5E is because sane DMs do not deliberately exploit the flaws in the system to kill their player characters with chump CR monsters. If WotC invents some kind of a system for swapping abilities freely between classes and then gives players direct or indirect access to that system, you'd see worse abuse than if the DM just eyeballed his inventions.WotC has already done their best to allow power-swapping in a very constrained way via the Multiclassing rules. They didn't do anywhere near a perfect job, but they did the best they could. Any other system they create is just going to exacerbate any imbalances even worse, so you're better off constructing your new classes out of existing classes. If you want a raging holy warrior, just write up a Barbarian 3/Paladin 9/War Cleric 8 build, give it a fixed progression (which levels to take when), copy that progression onto a chart listing levels 1-20 (including the new ASI levels), and give that chart to your players. Voila! Holy Warrior class, balanced as well as WotC knows how to balance it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7703436, member: 6787650"] Judging by the DMG monster construction rules, WotC's help would only make things worse. The only reason monster construction isn't broken in 5E is because sane DMs do not deliberately exploit the flaws in the system to kill their player characters with chump CR monsters. If WotC invents some kind of a system for swapping abilities freely between classes and then gives players direct or indirect access to that system, you'd see worse abuse than if the DM just eyeballed his inventions. WotC has already done their best to allow power-swapping in a very constrained way via the Multiclassing rules. They didn't do anywhere near a perfect job, but they did the best they could. Any other system they create is just going to exacerbate any imbalances even worse, so you're better off constructing your new classes out of existing classes. If you want a raging holy warrior, just write up a Barbarian 3/Paladin 9/War Cleric 8 build, give it a fixed progression (which levels to take when), copy that progression onto a chart listing levels 1-20 (including the new ASI levels), and give that chart to your players. [I]Voila[/I]! Holy Warrior class, balanced as well as WotC knows how to balance it. [/QUOTE]

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