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Absolutely yes, IMO. Tavern Brawler is pretty weak as far as feats go, and the player spent a significant resource to have it. I'd allow it to work in most situations where it's even remotely plausible for it to apply.

Where am I getting Healing Word in this scenario? Should I grab lore bard 1 earlier? This is helpful advice. However, one thing to remember is that I'm playing this build from level 1. I have no idea how quickly we're going to be leveling, but my guess is relatively slowly. So while I certainly...

You have this exactly backward. GFB cannot be twinned because it has more than one target. Booming Blade has one target and doesn't have a range of self, so it can be twinned. http://www.sageadvice.eu/2017/04/28/is-is-possible-to-twin-spell-booming-blade/...

Yeah, and Lay on Hands is another aspect that lends me to wonder if it's better to go straight paladin, since the total pool of healing is based on paladin level. The biggest drawback is that it's an action to use, and I don't have many features right now that use up bonus actions. snickersnax...

I'm not sure if you read the original post, where I described that I'm playing a paladin? Telling me to play a cleric/druid instead is, frankly, both dismissive and unhelpful. This isn't a heavily optimized group. I want to know if there's a viable route for me to provide healing while still...

Hi all, I recently started playing in a game with some friends and wanted to solicit advice on my paladin build. We're currently first level, and the party composition is Fighter (tanky) Fighter (intending to go Ftr 1/Warlock x) Warlock (GOO) Sorcerer (intending to focus on party buffs)...

IME, it's not the +Dex to ranged damage that makes a mess of things, it's adding +Dex to initiative. I'm okay with archers getting their chance to shine on a big open battlefield; that happens rarely enough (compared to fighting in 30'x30' dungeon rooms) that it feels reasonable. I'm even okay...

While that's true, at least in early WoW, there was some emphasis on having characters with crowd control (or "CC" -- abilities to temporarily disable some enemies) to make some encounters more manageable. It wasn't a full-blown role on its own, but it was a valuable asset to bring to a party...

As others have already said, for your own story, there's nothing stopping a warlock from becoming a lich. Personally, I don't like it, for a number of reasons: 1. Classically, in order to become a lich, you had to be a wizard or cleric who undertook very specific rituals to achieve lichdom...

My approach is different from the others mentioned so far. I find some game mechanical element that I like, and think of an interesting twist on it that still works. For example, the last character I played was a fiend pact warlock. But instead of being a Faust-style person seeking power, he...

FWIW, people (both Magic players and D&D players) have been asking for *years* for something like this, in public forums and private, and WotC has been extremely resistant to the idea of mixing the two brands. (Very likely due to the concerns you just voiced.) If releasing a free D&D product...

For the non-Magic savvy: there have been two "blocks" (one with 3 sets of cards, one with 2 sets) set on the world of Zendikar. Here's the style guide they released around the release of the first set. I haven't looked the new product over, so I don't know how much (if any) of the material is...

The disconnect is that without a clear structure for how the timing of reactions works with regard to being hit/taking damage, you end up with a teeming underbelly of weird, unintuitive interactions that aren't necessarily consistent with each other. So far, we've got SG, attacks that knock you...

It doesn't recharge especially well, but there's no rider about rituals not recharging it. Casting the Alarm spell as a first-level ritual, for example, can be done 6 times in an hour (a short rest) and nets you 12 points of ward. Whether or not you can do that while actually resting is subject...

Right, but the situation Spectacle points out is certainly non-intuitive and weird. That's pretty much the definition of a "stumble", IMO. re: handedness more generally, it's mostly the uncertainty. It's clear that a caster can use a 2h weapon or a 1h weapon with nothing in the offhand. The...

I can't speak to your experience, but a lot of players I know avoid casters for precisely that reason -- and while in other editions you can just not play a caster, it's baked into every class in 4e. I mean, point taken, and the comparison seems valid, but it's still a problem for at least...

Frankly, I find the thread quite constructive and helpful -- at least, the on-point comments and not the meta comments complaining about the thread. It helps me identify issues that may not have come up yet in my own games, and think about how to address them. My own peeve with 5e is...

I don't have my books to check, and since no one else has said anything, I'm probably wrong -- but I was pretty sure you got land and followers at 9th (name level.) And you still gained hp after that, but not hit dice; so you got a fixed number (1 for magic users, up to 3 or 4 for fighters) and...

I *do* do all four -- I think you have to to make D&D work at all. And if it bothered me that much, I'd just run a different system. I'm really just arguing an academic point, here, which arrives at a similar conclusion to what OP had staked out. That kind of discussion is the point of the...

I know that first comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek, but really, I think that's most of the reason for it -- tradition and the fact that that's what the rules say. I don't know that there's really a great non-self-justifying reason for Wisdom beyond "Wisdom is the Cleric casting stat, so it's...