Recent content by clutchbone

I don't care about the name "thug". Call it whatever you want. "Goon", "ruffian", whatever, I don't care. What I care about is how it plays. No, you're right I don't really understand your point, and I also don't know what it means to "be striate" (do i have ridges?). I never mentioned...

My whole impetus was the goal of making a strength-based rogue. All the features came afterwards. You could make a fighter for sure, nothing wrong with that, it just wasn't my intended purpose. I didn't want two-handed weapons or plate mail as options, and I actually liked the idea that they...

See the "Customizing a Background" section in the PHB. Players are free to swap skills for their background.

Yeah, Hunter is out, Gloom Stalker is in. I've actually updated the multiclass section a bit for XGtE subclasses, as well as the Unearthed Arcana races section for Races of Eberron. For the fighter multiclass, I don't use gold in my ratings; sky blue is the highest honour. :)

In my anecdotal experience, the +1 is enough to sway most players to pick an elf wizard over a dwarf wizard. I just smoothing out the system a bit for players I know that like a concept, but hold back because of the crunch.

I'd like psychic blade to be a weapon attack, either a remodeled shillelagh or worded like booming blade. Psychic Blade Evocation cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 5 feet Components: S Duration: 1 round As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a...

Oooh, it's a pre-existing MTG race. Just googled it. Neat.

Don't ranged spell attacks suffer disadvantage in melee?

Feather Fall would make sense as they live in winding towers up in the clouds. Detect magic also fits with their magical scholar theme. The pic on homebrewery threw me off after reading the description here, as it doesn't have rabbit ears but does have facial hair (fur, whiskers).

Yeah, just in my own experience darkness is more common than dim light environments. YMMV, of course.

Be aware that you'll be attacking with disadvantage in darkness if you pick human, which doesn't really mix well with the preferred environment of a shadow monk, also disadvantage invalidates sneak attack. Either that or you're constantly burning 2 ki to cast darkvision.

Oh yeah, +2s were expected, and also unavoidable with baseline human. Good catch on mountain dwarf. How's this? Houserule B: Player can choose one additional +1 ASI, up to a maximum of total bonus +2 in any one ability score.

Goal: to mechanically encourage a broader variety race/class combos. Houserule A: Racial +2 ASIs are reduced to +1. Houserule B: Player can choose one additional +1 ASI [edit], up to a maximum of total bonus +2 in any one ability score. Example: Hill dwarf wizards start with +1 Con & +1 Wis...

Oh, I'd much rather play a charismatic one, for sure. It's more like I see the fighter, rogue, wizard, and cleric quickly and quietly getting geared up for an adventure, and then suddenly the bard pops out all like "Hey guys, I just composed this amazing ode to....wait, are we going on an...

In re-reading what I wrote, apologies if I came as overly negative. I only commented at all because I liked what you made. Coincidentally, I got approval from my DM for a shadowdragonborn character last year, but ended up choosing something else in the end.