ArcaneOverride
Villager
The Eldritch Archer feat chain is amazing, and I can't wait to play a character with it.
Level Up (A5E) What's your favorite thing about Level Up?
Timespike
A5E Designer and third-party publisher
Yeah, it's a good change. Pain is tiring.
HawaiiSteveO
Blistering Barnacles!
Elite level monsters! Next session Monday, and encounter with dragon is not going to be over in 3 rounds, I tell you what!
Second up is whatever that guy on page 29 of T&T is up to
never seen that in a book before!
Second up is whatever that guy on page 29 of T&T is up to
never seen that in a book before!
I've been avoiding this thread for a few days from simple lack of ability to pin down even a handful of top-o-the-list reasons but I think the the "silly powerbuilds" thread helped me nail down what might be the single biggest QoL improvement for me as one of those perma-gm types. There are a ton of things I'm excited about in LU & what is probably a near endless list of things that will make my life easier as a freshly empowered narrator, but the synergy feats do something that I as a gm could basically never do by giving multiclass dipping an actual opportunity cost if my campaigns tend to last into the teens rather than dead ending by tenish.
For various class to class reasons the slowing progression as characters advance in level ultimately erases any meaningful opportunity cost from a 1-2 level dip in o5e & that made things difficult for me as a GM to balance between players at the table. The synergy feats change that to a 3 level dip and one or more feats to specialize in a new way vrs staying in the original class and spending those feats/asi's on things that are relevant to the original class making Alice & bob's characters viscerally different even if they both started as the same initial class.
For various class to class reasons the slowing progression as characters advance in level ultimately erases any meaningful opportunity cost from a 1-2 level dip in o5e & that made things difficult for me as a GM to balance between players at the table. The synergy feats change that to a 3 level dip and one or more feats to specialize in a new way vrs staying in the original class and spending those feats/asi's on things that are relevant to the original class making Alice & bob's characters viscerally different even if they both started as the same initial class.
Gandalf970
Explorer
My favorite thing in Level Up is the cultures. The diversity and ability to add so much roleplaying opportunities to my group is exactly what I needed.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Yes. This is why we need more heritages. No game I've been in for many years has only had character races from the PH.
Gandalf970
Explorer
Well you can mix and match the heritages so you technically could have 8 x 9 (72) more mixed heritages. Seems a lot to me!
Satirical Bard
Explorer
Also you kinda get a bonus race heritage, becuase humans have been so well written that they're suddenly a really interesting option to play, even without a free feat!
And the loving shout-out to neurodiversity via Ingenious Focus is, well, simply beautiful.
And the loving shout-out to neurodiversity via Ingenious Focus is, well, simply beautiful.
