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Just because the artist licensed their work to Paizo does not necessarily preclude them from also licensing it to someone else at a later date. I don't know if that's what actually happened here, but anyone claiming this is theft is just speculating.

IME the darts thing really came to the fore with the video games, particularly Baldur's Gate. The combination of a lot of combat, low levels, and fairly dumb monster AI meant that if you were cautious it was pretty easy to keep the Wizard out of combat, but they'd have literally nothing to do...

I wouldn't call Firebolt "more consistent" - it has a 40% chance of doing zero damage. Factoring in the attack roll like that makes the results look a little weird.

Someday I'd like to run a campaign that uses most of the Dark Sun mechanics, but is actually set in Xen'drik during the immediate aftermath of the dragons' retaliation against the giants for destroying Crya.

Is any of the WGtE's art actually new? I recognize a lot of it from the various 3E products.

Interesting, but two levels in this gives you an equivalent to Action Surge and a better (at low levels) Lay on Hands? Seems awfully good! And it's part-healer, part granting actions to allies... how is this not a Warlord?

Mutable Spell: You get to choose anew each level and it works with everything up to and including True Resurrection? This seems like too much for a 2nd level feature Tools of the Magi: Mostly ribbon, nice Mutable Element: Ah, the classic element-switching that everyone wants. This is a...

Grant arcane casters the ability to negate magic resistance at will, as long as they set it up with a bonus action at the end of their previous turn? Yeah, no thanks.

I think it's the reverse of what you think - the real difference between short rest and long rest abilities isn't power level, because that can (and should) be rescaled so that they match. The fundamental difference is that if two abilities are equal, but one is 2/short rest and the other, say...

Additive? No. Addictive? Very much so. I've known wizards who've completely lost the ability to fall asleep naturally. Eventually they build up an immunity to the point where they're using high-level slots every night just to get some rest. You don't want to be nearby when they decide it's...

The specific perk of being an evoker is being able to blast a room without killing your friends. Fireball still ignites everything flammable that isn't being worn/carried, so it's not like it's a totally free pass. Maybe I'm cruel, but as a DM I'd make sure that this at least occasionally...

These seem mostly pretty reasonable. But why wait until level 7 for Trap Master? The Naturalist doesn't get spells, so if I were playing one I'd hope for a package of stuff at level 2 as compensation. I could imagine moving Trap Master to level 2 (and maybe depowering Hazard if you think it's...

Exactly this. In a game where ability scores are a fairly big determination of power, you simply cannot completely "balance" random rolls. Sure, two 17's happens a decent fraction (about 4%) of the time. But a character with no score above 13 happens over 7% of the time. There's no way to...

Planar Ally give the caster zero control, and clerics don't have all the other useful spells to cast in preparation. So OK, suppose that cleric of Lathander beseeches Orcus for aid. Orcus decides to play along and sends a Nalfeshnee: Fiend: Behold mortal! It is I, Nyjikubnub! What task do...

That seems pretty brutal, what kind of challenge are you aiming for? If I'm reading it right, it can pretty typically make 4 Hammer Fist attacks each round (two from multiattack, one from powerful charge, one as legendary action) and move 100 ft each round (seems high?). In several ways it's...

Cynosure can cast Animate Objects 1/day at level 1, 2/day at level 2, 4/day at level 3, 9/day (!) at level 5, etc... Works with any 5th-level spell. At 5th level you have 30 charges/day, regain 8 per short rest (so typically 46 charges/day), and the 5th level spell costs 5 charges at level 5...

I think I'd make a mixed ruling, partly based on the paragraph that specifically forbids using the other cube abilities offensively. For example, suppose the cube's 4th function is active, and there's a magically invisible monster. The monster can pass through the barrier of its own volition...

Optimizing the 5E Rogue for DPR is overrated and you're doing it wrong.

Flurrying with Kensei weapons would be very OP without some kind of drawback. They can two-hand a longsword for d10 damage, which would be 3x d10+Dexmod attacks right at 3rd level, far outstripping any other class. The defensive Path of the Kensei benefit seems set up as a choice. The Kensei...

CR 20 melee bruisers are few and far between for a reason (and many of them are immune to fear). But I'm not saying don't set up the encounter! I'm just saying if you don't want unexpected outcomes, then don't allow for unexpected outcomes. If you don't want the heroes to be able to face down...