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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 9137573" data-attributes="member: 6802951">On the basis of making more minor adjustments rather than actually-new-edition levels of change:Give martials a pool of non-combat abilities to choose from. The issue with feats is that players will tend to prioritise combat capabilities until they are happy that they can keep themselves and their party alive during the most dangerous part of the game. Having character choices that aren't directly combat-related would allow further growth into the other two pillars of play.Such abilities should include options for a range of concepts from "I'm experienced, and just that badass", to those who favour spiky hairstyles and massively overcompensatory weapons, and they should either scale or have better options available at higher levels.More enforcement of a full adventuring day at higher levels. If casters have to ration their spells rather more than a 3-encounter day pushes them to, then using spells slots for non-combat utility becomes much more of a cost/benefit analysis decision.One poster who commonly comments in these threads has changed the basis for their game by using the gritty rest variant and making a lot of additional healing available. This has stretched out the martials' endurance compared with the spellcasters to the point that they no longer have a martial/caster disparity.Introduce a new martial class with non-combat utility on par with a spellcaster. Actual mechanics and specific abilities would be different of course, but the level of options and overall capability would be of the same degree.</blockquote>

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