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I don't think it generally holds up well compared to Chromatic Orb. It is situationally better but given a choice between the two I would take CO.

IME as both a DM and as a player, the players with a high AC and ways of imposing disadvantage are WAY more durable in play than PCs who rely on higher hit points. There are enemies that can wipe out the "squishies" with AOEs but there are more enemies that will quickly drain the guys who rely...

dice are random. There is always going to be unfairness if you are rolling.

The Dance Bard Unarmored Defense does not get a bonus based on Charisma, Unarmored Defense is a different way of calculating AC, similar to how a Monk or Barbarian or Mage Armor works. The post was based on the UA Genie Paladin and on that subclass this would work as the "bonus" from Paladin...

Using a club and a second weapon (third attack) with Warmagic and Shillelagh and Hex will outdamage using a staff by quite a bit, even without knocking enemies prone. You are getting the same attack damage as you get with a staff and then getting one more attack on top of that. I think you are...

If you are using Death Armor you should definitely go with Two weapon fighting or a Two-Handed weapon. Having the screaming high AC from sword and board + shield will work against Death Armor and make it less effective. With sword and board Mirror Image is the better 2nd level spell IMO and...

I don't like Resilient Wisdom on this build when you get Indomitable one level later. You also do more damage than that at round 7 and 8 because you are getting Truestrike Plus an attack with each action. There is also a good two-weapon fighting build in there using a club and scimitar. With...

I don't remember Aragorn using a Bow, but there are a lot of pages and maybe I just don't remember it.

Yeah the original Ranger got heavy armor and was a primary heavy melee PC, not the dex-based thing we have today, they did not have pets, they had to be good. Dual Wielding, Pets, sneaky are all things that came later.

Yeah, he definitely uses spells in the novels, and I think he is even the inspiration for the V/S/M system implemented in AD&D 1E. What is in question is not whether he uses spells. What is in question whether the spells come from being a Ranger or come from having Elven blood. Most Tolkien...

I would start Monk 1 then Ranger 2, then Fighter 1. That is very playable from level 1. The reason for Fighter is the 2nd Fighting Style, although having 5 masteries is pretty awesome too. If you are pushing for damage this will be very good. At level 2 you are doing 3d6+9, at level 4...

Fey Reinforcements is EXTREMELY powerful but the power is not in the free casting, that is ho hum, the power is not needing concentration and how it combines with the 7th level feature Beguiling Twist. I've been in a massive battle with 4 Fey on the battlefield at once, all 4 of them making 1...

Another option is a Monk-Fighter dip. Monk 1/Fighter 1/Ranger 19 works get thrown weapon fighting and two weapon fighting and go nick daggers plus martial arts with your daggers doing 1d6 You could also do Monk 2, 3 or 4 and/or Fighter 2, 3 or 4 depending on how you want to split it. In a...

Here is one: Celestial Warlock 8/Fey Wanderer Ranger 12 for races I like Aasimar the best, but Orc, Dwarf and Goliath work well too. S8 D14 C10 I8 W16 CH17 - using Invocations (Fienndish Vigor, Lessons-Tough) and Armor of Agathys to shore up the low hit points. Levels - Warlock 1-Ranger...

I am not tracking the logic for this. Wizards have more spells, why would they have less non-ritual spells?