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So what's the minimum information here? Can I say that the Priests of Arkhan in my campaign setting have a cantrip that deals force damage? Do I have to say what it's target area is? Do I have to say what components it has, or what rider effects it has? Let's say Firebolt wasn't in the PHB...

It's only a limit of level 5 if you don't use option 1 for character generation.

It's actually Octarine

My problem with Rage in 5e is the same problem with Rage in 3e. Never knowing when I should use this daily resource. WTF are martials doing with daily resources in 5e anyways, lol.

Uh the 2014 one? Exhaustion. You use your bonus action attack, you get hit with Exhaustion levels that are difficult to get rid of and can eventually kill you. This wouldn't be bad in of itself if the other Barbarian subclasses didn't give you cool features that don't have such a hefty...

I think we have 2e to blame for Fighter being a "big tent" class to cover all possible variations of "fighting man who is only supernatural by association". There was a push to get rid of "extraneous" classes- no longer were you an Assassin, that was a job title! The Complete Fighter's...

Well, to be fair, the 3e Psion does have noticeable differences with the 3.5 Expanded Psionics Handbook Psion. They might look the same, but six subclasses of the same class with a different casting stat was a bit eye-brow raising. Heck, I had DM's giving me the hairy eyeball for playing an...

FOMO, sure, but we know most of the PHB spells are pretty good! As I copied from Xanathar's, it's ultimately up to the DM what new spells to add to the game and to decide how players get them. This thread seems to be centered on "DM deciding what spells to add is OK" but "DM deciding to not...

Each DM and player have their own preferred pacing. I try to be open, if the group wants to go adventuring and get to it with minimum fuss, no problem, I got all the dungeons and the dragons. If they want to spend a little time exploring the town and getting to know the NPC's, that's great, I...

In all fairness, I don't really see someone worrying about whether or not their Wizard will be good unless the DM bans or nerfs half the spells in the PHB (and maybe not even then!).

Do we talk about Paladin as a Cavalier subclass? A subclass of a subclass? Or pretend that didn't happen?

Did you miss me saying we played from level 1 to 9? I said nothing about oil, I said improvised torch which the DM said did d6 fire. So 3.5. It didn't work on this one: And didn't I say this is campaign-dependent? That was my whole point, I just had an experience that counters what you...

Well, the noble could have been Ahmad ibn Fadlan (though I guess being a Court Poet is stretching the term "noble" a bit) but even he had to teach himself the language first!

Impossible, no, but difficult. The 4e Warlord is a square peg in a round hole if put into 5e. The class comes from a very different design paradigm, and as my last post said, slotting it in where it's useful regardless of party makeup, doesn't overpower casters, and is somehow better than the...

And this is the crux of the argument. It's not that most Background features are a big deal, I think the only one I've ever heard complaints about was the Outlander basically destroying old school survival exploration. It just comes down to how strongly you feel about verisimilitude. The...

Not after the last time, please. I still have PTSD.

Hey look, the game I was in where we went from 1 to 9 just went on hiatus. We had a Ranger, a Cleric, a Wizard, and a multiclasses Monk/Fighter/Rogue thing, plus the occasional appearance of our Bard (medical issues + wifey & kids, couldn't be helped). Here's what I can tell for certain...

It's a start, the main issue with Second Wind affecting your team is you need a situation where multiple characters need that healing and are in range. d10+level is better than a Healing Word, but worse than a Cure Wounds, and Healing Word is generally an "oh hell!" emergency heal sort of...

Skeletons. That's about it.