Recent content by Barolo

I don't really care about the type change. What bothers me, and has bothered me for a long time already, is the hold/dominate/charm person spells. Like.... why are humans and dwarves supposed to be the uber singletons in the game? I get that this comes from legacy and was used to allow such...

I agree with that. If a creature ends up with a different action economy depending on party size, it's potential DPR would change, which would effectively affect its CR calculation. Just picture a legendary creature being able to use all its 3 legendary actions against a 4-hero party, and then...

For what is worth, both deflect attacks and slow fall eat up the monk's reaction.

I really like your approach. If I may ask, how do you implement it with the D&D ruleset?

I am not sure I understood what you meant here, but point buy in itself does not give me any chance (it is exempt of chance), whereas rolling does give me a chance (as chance is involved after all) to have better ability scores than point buy does. Just by giving me a chance, any chance, to roll...

If we take 2e into account (also part of this game history), the difference between an 8 and a 14 was similar to a 5e's +6, in regards to skill use. Even in 1e/OD&D, some people would be using (or still are) that "roll under" option (from the magazine, I guess?) for some tasks, so there is...

Actually, for most powers a 1 meant nothing, but for some, an ill effect would backlash the user, or the power would not work quite as planned. A 20 was not only a failure, it could be pretty dangerous. For instance, if you were trying to activate disintegrate and rolled a 20, the power would...

I would rather incentivize paladins to go S&B, just for aesthetic reasons, so I'd be inclined to follow the sage advice on that, but paladins aren't really common enough in my games for me to really bother either way. Different rulings apart, GWS can also be appealing to the crit-fishing...

According to sage advice, the style should only affect the weapon dice, not the extra dice from smiting. http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/rules-answers-april-2016

Is the comparison proposed in this thread strictly about damage dealing? Without feats, I would say archery is still very good, if only because range. But great weapons? In my book they are really lackluster, as the damage boost from d8+2 (dueling) to 2d6/reroll is real weak sauce compared to +2...

I would not go as far as claim any percentage of the gaming community to have or not problems by rolling stats. What I see here where I play is that some folks, like me, were used to need to roll stats just to figure out which classes we could choose, based on those infamous prerequisites. Back...

I really don't get what are you trying to argue over this thread. Like... at all. I mean, there is no such class in D&D that is completely tied to a single elemental attack to contribute in the combat pillar. No elemental-benders, or pyromancers or such. Even if all you want to play is a...

I would say 14th, based on the abjurer wizard's spell resistance and monk's diamond soul. Now, this would be a juicy level dip.

Even though CR and XP are paired in 5e, I feel like they shouldn't. See, CR is just a gross estimation of the amount of direct punishment a monster can dish out and withstand. It does not take into account any special non-damaging abilities, tactics, special movement or anything. CR is useful to...

And yet, against some even lower level creatures, sleep is a die without a save. Edit.: Ninja'd! You could also compare levitate with hold person, both 2nd level spells. Against a legal target, levitate might restrain movement and even impede the enemy from melee-attacking, but hold person...