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I do totally agree with this. Just like some people go overboard with verisimilitude at the expense of gameplay, on the opposite end of...
Dec 16, 2025
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I have to very strongly disagree with you that some sort of verisimilitude logic should ever get in the way of letting the players do a...
Dec 16, 2025
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I understand the point, and I don’t want to forbid my players from choosing violence or revenge. I’ve just realized that I need to...
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The quest giver is an Adult Bronze Dragon in disguise, whose "capabilities go beyond what is presented here" (quote from the module)...
Dec 16, 2025
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It seems like the module just says that Myla's wings are "badly injured", not that they're completely decapitated or anything. So I...
Dec 16, 2025
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Deryan's Helpful Homunculi is technically not listed as an Artificer spell but that is almost certainly an oversight by WotC seeing as...
Dec 14, 2025
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Nah, it's properly rated as being pretty bad, but still playable and fun if you don't mind being less powerful. Portal Jump looks super...
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Where are you getting Aura of Vitality to put into your SSI?
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Here's one of my opinions that I can see from your initial comments you don't agree with: the 2014 monk was poorly designed and...
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My critical analysis of the OP is that he nitpicks about too many things that just don’t really matter. I’m fairly certain I could find...
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The OP is vocally anti-5.5e. This whole thread is designed to tell people how badwrongfun it is to play it.
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This is just as massively overblown. Yes, monsters deal a lot more energy type damage, but it has never been easier to get energy type...
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Here is the description of Rage from the intro to Barbarian in the current PHB: Personally, I'm not sure that "rage" is still the best...
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Bringing underpowered options into parity with other classes is. It's just a matter of debate if they succeeded.
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Off the top of my head the big nerfs (in general order of priority) would be Divine Smite, Conjure Animals, Sharpshooter, GWM (overall...
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