D&D 5E Non-Proficient Saves

[Quartz]

I think a "jack of all saves" feat would be worthwhile.

Guarded: Add half your proficiency bonus to all saving throws you are not proficient in.

That's a good idea but IMO far too powerful for a feat. Compare it with the Resilient feat. Something like +1 if your proficiency bonus is +4 and +2 if it's +6, perhaps? Allow it to stack. As a racial ability for humans, however, I think it would be great.

 

[77IM]

Did we already mention that a 14th-level monk becomes proficient in all saves? Or that a 6th-level paladin adds his Cha bonus to all saves PLUS saves of every ally within 10 feet? (It expands to all within 30 feet later on.)

Also a lot of spells and effects are "save ends," or require multiple save failures to take hold. This may have been balanced with the assumption of low saves. Like failing a save against paralysis isn't as bad if you get to retry every round.

Note too that a death save IS a saving throw and is explicitly included by abilities that affect "saving throws" in general.