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Legacy (pre-MotM) Scourge Aasimar from Tome of Foes has the Radiant Consumption ability, which when triggered deals radiant damage equal to half your level to yourself and anyone else within 10' at the end of your turn. But that only lasts for 1 minute, usable once per day.

Not really. Shield Master doesn't do much of anything to help a PC with a low DEX save to be able to succeed on more DEX saves. The +2ish bonus is minimal, and only rarely applies. Keep in mind that the shield bonus strictly applies to DEX save effects that target only you. Many/most of the...

The main issue with the Shillelagh/Magic Stone route is that you have a bunch of competition for your Bonus Action. -Shillelagh requires one Bonus Action per minute -Magic Stone requires one Bonus Action every three attacks (so as often as every other round) -Primal Companion requires a Bonus...

Would you consider doing the same concept with a Tortle? Similar reptile race. More useful stat bonuses, allowing you to make a STR/WIS Monk with a Moderate CON and a minimal DEX/INT/CHA. Higher AC than Lizardfolk, even though you're dumping DEX. Plus... y'know... Ninja Turtles, dude...

Yep. No way. Mechanically, a -4 modifier on any stat (even the least-relevant stat for your chosen class) is way too punitive to justify the extra +1 or so modifier on your primary stat over something like point buy, the standard array, or an average rolled stat array. There's really no such...

Yeah, it would be a better option for something like a Sorcadin or Hexblade Sorlock.

Have you seen WotC's semi-official 5E Vampire race from Plane Shift: Ixalan? https://media.wizards.com/2018/downloads/magic/plane-shift_ixalan.pdf It's more like a half-vampire, because (for balance reasons) it doesn't have many of the traditional full vampire powers or the full vampire's...

I did the same thing with the Boy Druid for my Ghostwise Halfling Moon Druid in 5E.

Yeah, support characters like multiclassed Cleric/Bards are great for longer campaigns with a larger group and lots of social interaction and skill checks. But for a combat-heavy one-shot, especially with only a few other players, I can see how it would be boring and sometimes frustrating. You...

Sure they do. There are spells requiring both attack rolls and saves. Some of them are set up to where the attack roll does one thing, and the target then gets a save to avoid another thing. Several of the Paladin's various Smite spells are examples of this. The end result is that the spell...

I think this is very group-dependent. If you're playing with optimizers, Concentration checks may seem to be too easy. Otherwise, they may seem to hard. In my experience, if you build around Concentration, by multiclassing in specific ways, taking feats, focusing on CON as one of your...

That's a definitely a good way to expand the number of concentration spells a party can have running, but it's a double-edged sword... Most melee characters (especially tanks) are more likely to get hit, and therefore will be making more Concentration checks, increasing the chances of losing...

Another positive for the Concentration mechanic is that it allows you to have things like magic items and class abilities that are similar to existing spells, but which aren't rendered obsolete or less valuable by an existing party member having those spells, since the items/abilities don't...

A couple semi-official options (Pyromancer is from Plane Shift: Kaladesh, and Wildfire Druid is UA)... Option 1: Dispater/Glasya/Levistus Tiefling Hexblade Warlock 1/Pyromancer Sorcerer X (Starting Sorcerer at Level 1 for CON saves.) Focus on CHA, with moderate DEX and CON. Mostly SAD, and...

There are others, such as Clairvoyance or Telepathy. And there are various other spells that also allow you to target an area that you're familiar with or can envision, without having line or sight or a clear path, such as Dimension Door or Project Image. Spell descriptions matters. And...

My point was that requires reading the description, not just taking a rigid stance that any spell that targets another creature always requires a clear path...

Do you rule the same way on spells like Message or Sending? They both target other creatures, therefore to target that creature you must have a clear path to it. Period. No need to read the description of those spells, right? However, if you do read the description, neither one requires...

It depends. A couple rooms into a dungeon, with 90% of the dungeon still uncleared? Not likely. I mean, they can always try, but they almost certainly won't be left alone for 8 straight hours as the remaining residents continue to move about the complex. After the dungeon is cleared? Sure...

You can lean on Booming Blade/Green Flame Blade to help bridge the gap left by the delayed Extra Attack. Same as any other gish build that doesn't get Extra Attack, like an Arcane Trickster Rogue, a Paladin2/SorcererX, a Hexblade Tomelock, a melee Arcana Cleric, etc. BB/GFB's extra damage...

Swashbuckler 3 is nice if you don't have another way to reliably trigger Sneak Attack, and you're right that the free Disengage is potentially handy when combined with Booming Blade. But you won't be relying on Booming Blade much once you hit Bladesinger 6 and get your Extra Attack, and one of...