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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8296750" data-attributes="member: 22779"></blockquote>Since there has been one class book since Xanathar's, again, I think you might be reading a bit much into this.  And, while Berserker isn't magical (at least, not really), every other Barbarian has been.  This is hardly a change.  Tribal Chief isn't a subclass, horse archer isn't a barbarian class and weapon hurler?  battlerager?  None of those are actual classes.  Those are just combat collections.  Again, not what WotC has been producing at all.I think this is why every single month, WotC puts a honking big section in Dragon+ advertising DM's Guild.  Not really sure how much more outreach they could do.  Between Reddit sites with hundreds of thousands of members (/r DNDNext alone has 7600 members online RIGHT NOW and a membership of just shy of half a million), online play shows like Critical Role, and various other venues, "I have no idea what DM's Guild is" rings a bit hollow.5e no more locks a warrior into single tactics than you force it.  That's a ridiculous statement.  See, this is why it's such a problem.  Sure, when you point buy your character and dump stat, instead of building balanced characters, yeah, you have single, one trick pony characters that do one thing over and over again.  But, that's a player problem.  I've seen that far too many times.  Ok, I'm going to singularly focus feats, ASI's, magic items and every other character option on using this one tactic.  What?  You are nerfing my tactic because of the wind?!?!  HOW DARE YOU!!  HOW DARE YOU TELL ME WHAT TO PLAY!!!!Yeah, I have zero sympathy for those players.  Bounded accuracy means that a 16 in your prime stat is more than good enough.  No, you don't have to use one weapon and only that one weapon for 16 levels to be effective.  The only people who want more options are the optimizers and, frankly, I couldn't care less about that or what they want.[/QUOTE]

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