Recent content by Cap'n Kobold

Mostly interacts with feats. Is the idea to get the damage increases from the 2-handed feat, style, and polearm mastery, while still getting the advantages of using a shield?

Maybe specify non-heavy two-handed weapons for the last point? Unless that was the point?

"As good a caster as a Wizard, but better at Rituals" would be a tricky needle to thread. I'm not sure how to make a class better than a wizard at rituals in a manner distinct from wizard mechanics whilst maintaining balance. The concept of the order of wizards performing their hermetic rituals...

In my experience it is extremely rare for a store to have significant amount of healing potions. The only time I've seen a player stock up on those sorts of numbers what when players asked "Do they sell healing potions?" and when the DM said "Yes." they didn't ask how many, they just marked down...

Something that was missed out that I thought should have been taken into account is damage type effects not connected to immunity/resistance vulnerability. For example Fire is commonly resisted, but it is also extra-effective against Trolls, without being picked up as a vulnerability by the...

I like them: They provide consistent damage over multiple encounters, they provide additional control by their presence, and they support the rest of the party by being another target and hit point pool to absorb attacks. They're also useful in comparison threads like these because the damage...

Indeed. Generally however I've found that the way spellcasters consistently out-damage martials is through the use of persistent duration spells (spike growth, cloud of daggers, summon spells, etc.) combined with lower level or at-will effects. The issue is that in most situations, I've found...

The thing about fireball, and spells in general, is that unlike martials, which generally have to be built to do a specific thing well, if a situation is not optimal for casting fireball, you can cast something else instead. With a reasonable selection of spells, you can tailor your use of your...

I remember that! Turns out the DM wasn't applying the rules correctly IIRC. I assure you it is eminently possible for characters to die in D&D 24. That isn't really what Eberron shifters tend to be about, although you could definitely do that as a shifter Druid. While those gnolls look...

Speaking only for the group I'm a member of: On any specific AL day, there will generally be 1-3 games running. There is a requirement that at least one of these games be open to new players, which means it must be a Tier 1 or Tier 2 game. (AL allows new characters to be started at 5th level.)...

I think that we're looking at bringing classes closer to parity with each other in the various aspects of the game, not making the caster experience worse. We're after equality, not punishment. Also, none of those changes really address the main issue of the martial/caster discrepancy, which is...

I do not think that Fighters beat out Bards, or many other spellcasters at Tier 2, or even earlier. Bear in mind that 2 short rests might be what the game was allegedly calibrated around, but it is relatively unusual for 2 short rests to be the norm for a game, with 1 being closer to the...

So far, ToV seems to have been marketed specifically to existing D&D players that liked 5e but were disillusioned with WotC. I have not seen ToV advertised anywhere other than TTRPG spaces, unlike D&D 5e which has had significant money and time invested in it in mainstream media and areas where...

WotC/Hasbro seems to be the only TTRPG producer that is putting a large amount of resources and active effort into bringing new people into the hobby. While there will always be existing players bringing their friends into gaming groups, WotC are making efforts to market to people new to TTRPGs...

Given that the popularity of martials like Fighters was retained even in editions where it was known and acknowledged that there were severe balance issues, it would seem to imply that a significant number of people like the concept of a martial, rather than a spellcaster. Removing martial...