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Just to add a little more nuance, I'd prefer a supernatural explanation for why and how the outlandish thing happens. For example, the monk taps into inner energy to do amazing things. The barbarian's rage is fueled by Primal energy. The blood hunter uses alchemy and dark rituals to fuel his...

Red: This is in reference to the notion that at some arbitrary high level, the "mundane" hero no longer is confined to doing mundane things, but he is still not considered "magical". For example, the hero upon reaching 11th level can now jump miles at a time, throw things multiple times their...

That misses the memo. Dracula is more than a match for any of the six hunters in the novel, but all six are able to stop him and his minions with only one fatality. Ravenloft is supposed to be about overcoming the odds. Otherwise, you move out of gothic horror and moved into slasher horror.

Depends on the metrics being used. The Monster Manual has NPC stat blocks for a variety of generic people in the world who are far better than a level 1 PC, let alone a commoner, but still feel mundane. A gladiator, by the numbers, is a beast but his abilities (mostly different forms of weapon...

I'm fine with that definition. The issue becomes how much should the fighter/warlord/rogue/etc go past that line. Do we hard cap them at the line permanently (what D&D does now), do we let them break that line when a sufficient number of orcs have been slaughtered, or do we let them consider the...

The problem is right now we have too many different opinions on where that line is. Some people want Batman. Some people want Superman. Some people want Batman to turn into Superman at a certain point. There is no option I see that could possibly work at this point. Like psionics, there is so...

If they aren't going to be based on Earth things, why give them Earth names and the expectations that come with it. If a cow in Faerun can breathe fire, its not a cow. Call it a Burf or something. If a tree explodes into a ball of poison when cut, it's not a tree, it's a Vingor or similar. If a...

That's the problem with designing your ruleset concurrently with WotC's playtest; they didn't address the same issues because WotC hadn't finished getting all their survey info yet. When the TotV monk was written, WotC hadn't finished its superior 2nd draft in UA yet and KP hadn't come to the...

Paladin is one of those classes that gets more boring the more generic it gets. I think the current paladin is almost the right amount of flavor and generic.

I don't disagree with that. The best scenario would be to boost martials slightly and nerf magical more to get them about equal. If that can't happen, give martials the magical side needed to keep up with magic. But don't give them magical equivalence with no downsides.

A killer DM and four players who are in desperate need of a long rest

It's an asymmetrical pvp game where one player plays a serial killer and the rest victims who are Trying to outwit them. It's famous for having every slasher movie icon of the past 50 years in it, either directly or spiritually. My guess is Venca is coming as a killer.

Because nobody ever mentions them. They say "it's like magic, but it's nonmagical" and when pressed it never goes farther than that. I'd like to hear more about how that gets balanced besides Martial Christmastree land thinking. @EzekielRaiden at least provided some thoughts on balancing them...

This is purely a play style difference, but even the idea of casting a fairly mundane utility spell and getting caught in a rainstorm of ducks doesn't appeal. I don't like magic being an I Win button, but I don't want it to be a slot machine either.

I was just being cheeky. That said, I could see issues when the warlord is trying to play the meta and demanding others play certain classes to get maximum benefit for themselves. It's small, but a non-zero chance.

Damn auto currant. Foiled again!

A warlord who uses his allies abilities to buff himself? Like an anti-warlord?

So I'll start by saying that the warlock is my least favorite chassis to build classes over, at least in vanilla 5e. That's one strike against it. My real concern is that in 5e, there are scant few checks on magic as it stands. The DM can screw the wizard things like antimagic, spells like...

But mechanically, a class that uses its own buffs to match a fighter's solo combat abilities is just burning resources on himself to do what the fighter already does.

Can I tell you how unsupervised I am by this?