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Yes, except when I'm in a hurry, I don't.

Some of the monsters are sort of already built this way, while others do die changes, and a few don't seem to follow any pattern. One quick idea you can use that if you want to boost damage, you can take away a monster's Strength bonus to attack with that attack, making it powerful but slow and...

Reasons this makes sense, in no particular order: Original D&D setting, so the 50th anniversary nostalgia factor is there Existing fanbase who have been out in the wilderness ever since Living Greyhawk went away The much more toned-down variations of ancestries map well to the toned-down...

Iuz. Greyhawk has the dark overlord thing going on.

Armor Class is your meat threshold. If you take damage, you lose meat, but not in any specific, literal amount of meat.

The 5e monk from 3rd level on is doable. But at 1st level, you're a person with a stick. Literally all the abilities you gain just mitigate some of the disadvantages of being someone in a robe with a stick. At 2nd level, you have just enough ki to get overconfident. Once you get to 3rd level...

Okay. Maybe a weird choice for a character that often attacks bare-handed, but cool. Well, they're weak. I don't know that they would be better off as a weak striker than anything else. There was also the Slayer Fighter, which blended the striker with the defender. Hence, even in 4e, class...

Is a monk a striker? Do you think it's cool 4e had a defender fighter and a striker fighter? Should 5e have both striker and defender options for monk?

I guess. I don't think marking where a monk is on the martial-magic-psi by striker-defender-controller grid is immediately going to sprout insights into how to build a low-gear character in a high-gear game.

There's no warlord equivalent in 5e because classes in 5e aren't defined primarily by their role. A warlord is just a warrior in the support/healer role. The only way you can remotely imitate one is to look at support/healing abilities in 5e and graft them onto something similar to a fighter or...

A little tricky, while wielding a greataxe, but doable, if you have a foe within throwing distance.

I've come to find I really don't enjoy fighters with a lot of finite resources.

"I'm an unstoppable rage monster, waiting to be uncorked! ... But is now the right time? What do you think, guys?"

One of the things that doesn't get enough consideration is that movement, alone, will not keep rage going. So if you don't have an enemy in reach, you need to find a source of damage. If nothing readily presents itself, you can punch yourself, costing your action.

I guess that depends if you classify having to injure yourself as a problem.