Looking for resources to help martials.
I want to ask my question right off the rip, what resources would you guys recommend for helping out martials in 5 and 5.5E?
My reasoning for this is that the martials/caster divide has been talked about for as long as I’ve started in this addition, 10 years ago. With the long and short of that being that casters just do so much more than your traditional martials in every form of play. With resources being something that are supposed to balance it out and create a risk and reward system. However, in almost every game I’ve played in the last 10 years not many DM’s run more than two encounters a game day. Not to mention the wizard creating a Minecraft level, machine to the earn 1 million gold.
There are answers that clever DM‘s can do to keep their casters in line but at that point you’re having to rain them in just to keep them in line with the martials. The role-play side of things is so subjective that I’m not looking for any advice on that. But I’m just wondering if people have seen good designers or resources that alter things that affect martials in ways that help them out either numbers or with unique ideas.
This is just something I thought of, a lot of the bigger weapons might benefit from another damage die if a certain condition is met. For instance, any heavy Polearm weapon if you swing it in a way where your character moved specifically to help it(charge), gave up a little movement to help with that, or had the right range for damage (less damage at 5ft but more at 10ft).
I appreciate you guys reading my post and I look forward to the replies.
Posted Sep 21, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC