Recent content by Cap'n Kobold

Granting one player who wants that is likely to be detrimental to the enjoyment of the game for the other players. To repeat a question asked earlier: What happens if there are more than one player with that attitude? . . . and what happens if the rest of the table is not made up of players...

There are so many other character building choices and potential for optimisation in 5e, that sabotaging entire classes just so there is a "best" and "worst" option is not good design at all. Wanting to play a "better character than anyone else" with no other preferences or thoughts as to...

No one complains about the chance of rolling a 1 increasing with number of attacks. However I can assure you that there are complaints when people try to change rolling a 1 from just "automatic miss" to "fumble with potentially "hilarious" results like damaging your weapon, teammates or yourself".

This line of reasoning really only holds up when dealing with something where your level of expertise and familiarity with a weapon does not reduce the chance of something going wrong when trying to use it. It is shaky even when considering something as cantankerous as a musket, where shoddy...

That is actually really sad. I think some of your players frequent these boards - Would any of the players in Hussar's current or recent games willing to speak up to talk about why they act like this, and whether they are aware that they are driving Hussar to this state?

No, you start having 4 uses assuming a 16+ Intelligence score, which I think is reasonable for the way that most people will make their Bladesinger. (Yes, we know that you personally might to do it differently.) That is three initial uses, and then one back in a short rest. In a day with 4...

You . . . may wish to read up on the 5e24 Bladesong ability. It is not the same as the 2014 version. For most Bladesingers, on most days, you will have 4-6 uses of Bladesong.

Bladesong AC boost stacks with everything you have there. So it will push your AC to 23. This matches as a baseline what a similarly-equipped fighter would be on, if the fighter focused on defence rather than damage by using a shield. Combined with Shield and Absorb Elements, this probably...

4-6 times per day covers the majority of the adventuring most groups actually do.

As you say, D&D has a long tradition of sci-fi elements in it, but is there any particular sci-fi media that your peers are fans of? Television, films, other games etc? Has something caught on in your peer group that might have caused the additional interest?

Not all. Silvery barbs for example, are not available for Adventurer's League.

I think a big decision needs to be made when implementing psionics: Just how immiscible is it with magic? - Although this doesn't necessarily dictate whether Psions are spellcasters or not. Can an astral Construct or ongoing psionic effect be dispelled with Dispel Magic? Could it be picked up...

While I think that Swordmage would be a good additional class, I'm not sure that "Arcane half-caster" would be a good way of doing so. There are plenty of classes and subclasses that get both spells and extra attack and just put up a buff or two before attacking purely with their weapon...

Ideally, what I would like to see is a well-implemented Warblade, as per Bo9S. Done right, that could cover the Warlord class well simply through selection of maneuvers. I'd like an interesting and fun martial class, with a good variety of selectable class features for both in-combat and...

While Wizards still generally get to cast the most spells per day of any long rest caster due to their ritual mechanics . . . . . . I would absolutely support a rebalancing of the class to improve their early levels and reduce their later levels.