u/LearnedReasons

Disclaimer: I don’t condone toxicity and this doesn’t anger me, this is meant to be constructive. Shout out to BLM – he’s blowing my mind, as is C4.

The sentence:

>Uh uh mhm uh ok uh ok Bolaire that is your turn and then that is going to be uh uh uhm you see uh King Gus uh yous uh uh who is badly poisoned.

To DMs and players alike, I know it seems intimidating to not use filler words. I promise it’s not, and it’s a detail worth handling. Leaving space between words is a good thing.

I can’t overstate how irksome this sheer level of redundancy is – it truly boggles my mind. It’s particularly egregious considering both the leap from 5 to 5.5 being mainly about streamlining, and secondly the outspoken consensus around offering martials bonus feats.

I’m sure this isn’t a novel thought. It would appear (to me at least) to be such an easily implemented / no-brainer way to mitigate both power-floor and ceiling issues of martials simultaneously, with little to no tweaking required.

Great Weapon Fighting upgrades into the (additional) effects of Great Weapon Master.

Two Weapon Fighting upgrades into the (additional) effects of Dual Wielder.

Etc.

As implied, just separate the effects by their level prerequisites (4th level).

It would also open the door for other Fighting Styles to have sensible upgrades to aid the power curve, but I don’t want to make this into a homebrew post.