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    D&D (2024) Weapon Mastery + Cunning Strike+ Battle Master

    This goes back before that. I herd it in 2e and laughed it off then. I have always had people who are interested in playing caster also be interested in improv and “skirt the letter of the law” thinking. Not to say I never saw a fighter go for it but I never saw wizards not do it. Especially...
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    D&D 5E Help me balance crazy over the top artifacts

    Um wow that is a lot. I made a heman/shera sword that worked like the main power once and it worked well. As it stands now I would almost never use this unless it was “omg the bad things hit the fan”. I do. Like your divine essence can you explain that more is it like divine rank?
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    D&D (2024) Weapon Mastery + Cunning Strike+ Battle Master

    Ironically the knight and slayer are both GREAT examples. They got “more damaged” encounter over and over that just scaled for easy play but you could swap them out for more complex encounter powers
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    D&D General Monk: The Past, Present, and Questionable Future of an Iconic Class

    If it makes you feel any better some of those classes got 2d4 at 1st level
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    D&D (2024) Weapon Mastery + Cunning Strike+ Battle Master

    Imagine taking the sneak attack but make it 1d4 at 3rd level then 1 more die every 3 levels (6,9,12,15&18) limit it to 1 hit per turn. Give them cunning strike like the rogue but with all the battle master maneuvers at level 3 but more as you level that are more powerful.
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    D&D General World building: MIx and Match Editions

    Tree of Life. It was a basic d&d idea I stole and used in world building in both 2e and 4e and it has evolved a bit since both. I am now working on bringing it over to 5e. Clans of elves must protect a tree that gives them power and long life… if the tree dies they die. Mix in some 3e...
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    D&D 5E Ability Check origins at your table

    The Cha skills is another hold over. Way back in the Dino riders times of 2e we didn’t have any social skills or systems really so it was all player skill Starting with 3e there was a big “bad wrong fun” push to either not use them at all or use them as little as possible to keep player...
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    D&D 5E Ability Check origins at your table

    I wish it was. Ask around both here and IRL and you will find people who had XP taken from them penalties like disadvantage And something I have been told but never directly seen but it sound like your group might have MANSPLAINING. Where the DM THINKS they know better then a real life...
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    D&D 5E Ability Check origins at your table

    Give up. Trust me. This fight started way back in 3e with the introduction of a default assumed skill system and it has raged on for 23 years. Heck it really started before that when thieves (not rogues) had % skill. The best you can do is when you find a DM who thinks like this just leave...
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    D&D (2024) Playtest 6: Spells

    Yup. Looks like a fun rp cantrip.
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    D&D 5E Ability Check origins at your table

    Yup it’s jeopardy rules “you gave the right answer but forgot to phrase it like a question so no points” if you like that idea cool but I don’t.
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    D&D (2024) Playtest 6: Spells

    I wonder if this will see as much okay as Thaumaturgy Druid craft and prestidigitation?
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    D&D (2024) Heightened Metabolism. See WotC? You CAN do it!

    Thank you. That is a great answer and a level of detail without snark I am not used to. So again thank you.
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    D&D (2024) Heightened Metabolism. See WotC? You CAN do it!

    Again you are missing the whole point so I give up. Okay you don’t think we should TRY to get our way, so by that logic should not YOU not want to try to get YOUR way and as such it doesn’t matter about the playtest at all… since it doesn’t matter by your. Way of saying this? Or, hypothetically...
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    D&D (2024) Heightened Metabolism. See WotC? You CAN do it!

    No it isn’t. It is easy to convince someone to try a WoTC optional rule. It is easy to make a house rule. Until you hit the “ugh just let’s play base I don’t want to figure out variations even if I like that one”
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    D&D (2024) Heightened Metabolism. See WotC? You CAN do it!

    Not everyone. But if every class had at least some recharge on a short rest things and the ones that count on it (monk fighter and warlock off top of my head) had 1/day 1 min short rest that could do it
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    D&D (2024) Heightened Metabolism. See WotC? You CAN do it!

    I don’t know Skyrim. Is it a long rest/short rest mechanic or a quick recharge/cooldown/regen system? I would bet almost anything every video game like Skyrim has its roots somewhere in d&d weaither direct or secondary.
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    D&D (2024) D&D 5.11 - the time of big change is over

    Heck a high elf fighter with prestidigitation
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    D&D (2024) Playtest Packet 6: Monk reactions?

    It didn’t seem to have all the utility of those but had a lesser flare of them.
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