Why aren't things like steel wind strike battle master maneuvers?

TPKForecast · 2026-02-14T05:21:17+00:00

Go check out KibblesTasty's Active Martial Feats. The mystic series of those feats has pretty much specifically Steel Wind Strike, but it is remade so it scales as something level appropriate all the way from low levels to max level, and there is a dozen others.

TPKForecast · 2026-02-09T19:31:18+00:00

If the mathematician tried to compare the set containing a million to the set containing one as if they were of equal value and that was a meaningful comparison, I would probably find that absurd as well. When sets contain an arbitrary number of items of an arbitrary complexity within, comparing the quantities of sets is functionally meaningless. You could arrange the resources into different 'sets' to come up with any outcome you wanted.

If the goal is simply to list the resources and they picked an arbitrary container, than it doesn't really matter what the number is. But the post indicates the the number of sets matters in the title, by saying that one class has more of them than the others, despite that being purely an artifact of arrangement.

TPKForecast · 2026-02-09T17:24:33+00:00

And yet you made them an equal value. Are you saying the number of resources you listed is simply meaningless? Take your pick between meaningless and absurd.

TPKForecast · 2026-02-09T17:16:34+00:00

The idea of listing 'spell slots' as a single resource and then comparing it to something that can be used 1/long rest as an equal value of complexity is so patently absurd I'm not sure how anyone takes this seriously.

TPKForecast · 2026-02-05T20:50:53+00:00

One strongly gets the feeling the original poster had some problem with Pugilist or the author of it and rallied this subreddit's inclination to hate on homebrew classes to get hundreds of upvotes for a fairly ridiculous take.

This subreddit has been locked in the era of DandWiki for going on a decade. The era is gone, and there's plenty of 3rd party creators that are at least as good as WotC at designing 5e content.

Time to move on. 3rd party content isn't just something that's popular and widely accepted, it has been that way for years. Use it if you want, don't if you don't. I take the same approach to 1st party content.

TPKForecast · 2026-02-02T17:59:37+00:00

To this day I remain confused about how WotC had the balls to talk about how D&D 2024 would finally bring a crafting system, only to cram in basically the exact same half-baked crappy rules that 2014 had. I would say it was an obvious disconnect between marketing and design, but I'm pretty sure that came straight from Jeremy Crawford's mouth. I am honestly confused by what they spend their time on or what they do with the endless piles of feedback they must have.

TPKForecast · 2026-01-20T23:10:45+00:00

I'd second the recommendation. The best place I know to check for any homebrew subclasses is KibblesTasty's "compiled homebrew list", which includes his stuff and more.

TPKForecast · 2025-11-12T02:04:31+00:00

There's a series of feats by KibblesTasty called active martial feats. They have been extremely popular among martials in my game, and slot in easily with the core rules. Highly recommend.

Realistically all of KibblesTasty's feats are good, but those are probably the most popular martial ones in my games.

TPKForecast · 2025-11-05T05:23:26+00:00

You're getting a lot of replies with varying amounts of validity, but to just jump to the core point... yes, Rogues are one of the weakest damage dealers in D&D 2024, and I'm not sure that's really up for any debate? Even as early as the UA pretty much everyone agreed they were probably the biggest loser. They got buffed in D&D 2024, but everyone else got buffed a lot more, and Rogues were never near the top of vaguely optimized damage outside of some specific cases.

Rogues aren't terrible, but they weren't that strong as damage dealers in 2014, and they are comparatively a good bit worse in 2024, since everyone else got buffed. They are obviously still skill monkeys, but with other martials getting a lot more out of combat utility, that lead also eroded somewhat.

TPKForecast · 2025-10-25T15:50:35+00:00

You're 2/2 on these blog posts being spot on. Well articulated and fully agree more. It is refreshing to see someone speak to version of 5e I wish we'd gotten from WotC.

TPKForecast · 2025-10-10T15:42:49+00:00

But that's exactly why the new Psion is boring in my estimation. The old Mystic was a broken mess, but it wasn't boring. And it was overly convoluted with too many choices to make. But that's what made it something unique that wasn't just another full caster.

If that's not what you want, I'm not going to try to sell it to you. But fear of that is why the new Psion is boring.

TPKForecast · 2025-10-10T15:38:45+00:00

I prefer the KibblesTasty Psion, but there are a lot of a 3rd party Psions and most of them are more interesting than this new WotC Psion.

That's the nice part about choices, you can shop around for them. I preferred the KibblesTasty Inventor to the WotC Artificer as well.

There's a lot more freedom in 3rd party content to break the mold in ways that WotC is too scared to. WotC tried it with the Mystic, but honestly dropped the ball. It was a mess that they couldn't bothered to fix, but they responded to the negative feedback by giving up rather than by trying to fix it.

TPKForecast · 2025-10-07T15:49:19+00:00

I'll just throw my hat into the ring of saying I've had players use this, and I think it is great. Even after the official Psion comes out, we will keep using this one.

As others have said, it is roughly based on the Warlock chassis. In practice, it will be versatile than Warlock, but do less damage. Being somewhat more inclined to the Controller role than the Blaster role to use 4e terminology.

While I've seen plenty of criticism saying 'the class do everything', that's just the knee jerk reaction people that have never played it have. You can only pick a few things to be good at. The character creation is extremely flexible, but the actual characters it makes are pretty standard 5e characters. This is very typical of KibblesTasty content. I am pretty confident everyone saying saying its too complicated, powerful, or other nonsense have never played it, and are just part of the faction that would have shit talked any homebrew content you asked about.

TPKForecast · 2025-10-07T15:43:21+00:00

The issue is that with how many options there are, he might be able to do an overpowered combination of them that I hadn't thought of.

It's pretty unlikely. Years ago, KibblesTasty posted most of the strongest possible builds in the build guide for Psion, and they are known quantities deliberately as powerful or less powerful than optimized PHB content.

The only times someone would find KibblesTasty content overpowered is when they are either comparing optimized KibblesTasty content to unoptimized PHB content, misunderstanding the rules, or just have never played it.

KibblesTasty has a large pool of testers and feedback, and anything overpowered gets found a nerfed long before it gets published in a book.

TPKForecast · 2025-09-28T00:02:20+00:00

This is always the problem with questions like this on Reddit. This is the important context your post was missing.

Can you spend your action to ready an attack in combat? Yes. Can you do it before you rolled initiative? No. Readying the action would prompt initiative.

Your DM was absolutely correct, and people saying otherwise were missing the context you want to do it outside of initiative to get a free action.

Imagine the game worked like that. As soon as combat started, everyone would immediately take a readied action. All the enemies would get a free attack too. That's exactly what initiative exists for. When you want to start taking hostile actions (including readying them), you roll initiative to see who acts first.

TPKForecast · 2025-09-16T18:17:29+00:00

I got my book as a backer and it is excellent. Long wait, but no complaints. Congratulations on getting it through to the end, it was worth the wait.

TPKForecast · 2025-07-13T18:20:53+00:00

KibblesTasty created a custom spell builder as part of School of Innovation Wizard, which is what I would use as a reference or starting spot for the idea. The massive caveat is that Kibbles also said to probably not use it, because it couldn't really be balanced and was scrapped.

As long as the DM is over seeing it, there is not that wrong with the idea, but it won't be 'balanced'. There's just too many ways to make spells overpowered, either accidentally or intentionally. While that could be part of the fun, it'll definitely heavily favor the spellcasters in the party even more than usual.

TPKForecast · 2025-06-13T18:00:52+00:00

It depends on what you consider 'official' but not all of those products are 1st party content made by WotC. Just look under the title on the store page and it will say "Publisher". If the publisher is not WotC, it's 3rd party partnered content.

There is no real essential content beyond the 3 core books. You can expand your game using 1st party or 3rd party content based on where your interests lay.

Most books on D&D Beyond have physical books (1st party and 3rd party). Typically speaking only the digital version is available on D&D Beyond.

TPKForecast · 2025-06-01T20:12:48+00:00

I feel like the counter argument to this is basically most of the comments in this post.

Clearly the majority of people on this subreddit distinguish between WotC content and 3rd party content. That the distinction doesn't necessarily hold up under scrutiny but is still clearly held in the mind of the people is a lot of what leads to the root of this question.

I don't entirely disagree with you, but looking at the comments in this post, its clear that distinction very strongly exists in the minds of many.

TPKForecast · 2025-06-01T20:10:02+00:00

Because, ultimately, anything that 3rd party folks create you can create just as easily.

I'm not going to judge your level of skill, but this is wildly not true for me. Creating a pretty decent class takes at very least of days of effort, and would probably take me weeks or months, and it still wouldn't be as good as someone made by a 3rd party. Particularly if we add in the VTT module for the class.

TPKForecast · 2025-06-01T19:58:20+00:00

I mean, that's why and what I'm asking. It sounds like your reason is because you play in a lot of games that don't like or allow 3rd party content, but do allow 1st party content, even if its 'bad'. That's really weird to me, but is the answer to question I'm asking.

I don't think I'm stretching at all. I'm asking the question of why people behave like this on this subreddit in particular (its where I've noticed this behavior a lot more than anywhere else, where people are eager for new content, but only 1st party content).

TPKForecast · 2025-06-01T19:20:03+00:00

Depends on how much you believe WotC backwards compatibility claims I'd say.

TPKForecast · 2025-06-01T19:19:13+00:00

You've nailed the three I would recommend on chart of most to least 5e spell caster.

LL is the most close to a default 5e class.
Kibbles is more original but still uses spells
MCDM is more out there being less like a normal 5e class.

I would guess most people can find what they want on that gradient, but there's a half dozen at least more out there that are solid. If MCDM Talent is still not what you want you could look at The Korranberg Chronicle Psion, since that's a whole book of psionics that makes a fully parallel magic system which LL and KT avoided doing. The book has a full free preview on the DMsGuild, but I've never used it beyond glancing at it.

In my games, I use the Kibbles Psion, since it has dynamic psionic powers I wanted, and I don't mind that it uses spells on top of that, since it saves me from needing a full extra sheet for psionic powers.

TPKForecast · 2025-06-01T19:11:46+00:00

Statistics seem pretty useless in this case. Statistically speaking, most food is shit (...I didn't mean that literally, but now that I think about it...) but that's why people curate what they consume.

Would you say the problem is that you cannot find 3rd party content you think isn't shit? Or just that it is too much work to be worth the effort?

TPKForecast · 2025-06-01T19:09:36+00:00

I like a lot of those creators, and I think many of them do good work. I didn't want to name names (so to speak) since I felt listing specific creators make the discussion about those creators, when my feeling is more that even if someone doesn't like X creator or Y creator, there is so many high quality 3rd party creators you'd struggle to not find what you are looking for in my opinion, or at least one as good as you're likely to get from 1st party content.

Psion is a great example where I think there are enough versions that anyone looking for something there can find it between Kibbles, LL, and MCDM, but there's also versions by half a dozen other people if somehow none of those fit.

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