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D&D 5E Nerfing Great Weapon Master
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jgsugden
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I'd love to see someone count how many posts have been spent on this topic. Before someone says it would e a massive waste of time to count them, it has been years since anyone had anything new to say on this topic. Spending time counting the posts rather than writing them would at least provide something new.
Xeviat
Hero
Super helpful, thanks.
Xeviat
Hero
With no penalty to hit? So it eventually reaches +6 damage? That doesn't seam balanced to me on anyone with Extra Attack.
Flamestrike
Legend
Just make the -5/+10 only usable once per attack action on your turn.
SharpShooter is more problematic. I suggest bringing the cover penalties back one step (You treat three quarters cover as half cover and half cover you ignore) and change archery style. The easiest solution with archery style is to give it +2 to damage.
I use a different solution with archery style. I allowed archery style to let you fire an opening volley on the first round of a combat.
It's more interesting then a flat plus 2 to damage.
I also suggest not letting magical arrows and magical bows stacking.
SharpShooter is more problematic. I suggest bringing the cover penalties back one step (You treat three quarters cover as half cover and half cover you ignore) and change archery style. The easiest solution with archery style is to give it +2 to damage.
I use a different solution with archery style. I allowed archery style to let you fire an opening volley on the first round of a combat.
It's more interesting then a flat plus 2 to damage.
I also suggest not letting magical arrows and magical bows stacking.
mflayermonk
First Post
How about -10 to hit and +10 damage.
I think people would still use it quite a bit.
I think people would still use it quite a bit.
Fanaelialae
Legend
That seems a bit high at low levels (I'm pretty sure there are some common low level monsters with around 6 hp). Maybe level x 1.5 (round up)? I don't think auto killing 30 hp at level 20 is overkill, given that basically everything will have well over 100 hp by that point (the exception being high level mages).
I assume you mean the amount that you beat the creature's AC by? Seems to me like that would be slow, unless all of your players are good at doing math in their heads quickly (personally I have some that are and some who aren't. Also this converts bonus to hit directly into damage, so I suspect it would be similarly exploitable in combination with reckless, bless, et al.
That would make it worthless to those who don't exploit the combo, and worse, make it a major trap option for those who aren't mathematically inclined (and therefore don't necessarily realize that in most cases this will result in a net decrease of DPR).
CapnZapp
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I don't think it is at all true, the "it has been years since anyone had anything new to say on this topic"
Case in point: myself. If you had asked me about the feat years ago (plural number of years) I would not have had the insight I have today.
Honestly I think it is first now enough gamers play at higher levels with more focused builds; expect more and more players to realize there problems over time.
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