Recent content by captainbananas

FWIW I agree with @Adamant - Elven Accuracy (Wis) scratches your feat itch without delaying your primary casting ability progression, so that's clearly a solid (if not globally optimal, at least locally optimized) choice.

I disagree; optimization is fundamentally a question of the trade-offs that arise from decision points. The opportunity cost of a marginal increase in damage can often include foregone abilities that would improve overall party effectiveness, and as a result the true delta in damage is negative...

To directly answer your question, and assuming the 'shrug it off' feature is implemented as you wrote it: Any damage, including bonus dice damage from a critical hit, would only apply if the creature failed its con save. This is because "specific trumps general." The save triggers irrespective...

Arial Black is correct. But there's a logical way to represent this without natural language, too. I apologize for not using formal logic statements, but advanced forum formatting is too high-level an ability for me. The set of elements that constitute resolving a successful attack (A) include...

I'm a big fan of augmenting paladin tankiness with sorcerer battlefield control/utility spells, so that sounds good to me. I would suggest, though, that if you choose the oath of conquest to do pal 7 / sorc 13; the level 7 conquest aura is too good to pass up for this build.

Thanks for getting this back up online. I'd love to see your thoughts on how the UA Ranger looks for MCing.