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I think you left out a lot of the most powerful spells in the game, the ones that don't cause damage, don't change the battlefield but affect creatures on the battlefield. Things like Fear, Hold Monster or Dominate Person. These kinds of spells are for the most part the most powerful offensive...

I think the average spells are already viable. The ones that aren't viable are the trap spells and this would not make them viable. For example, nerfing Shield undoubtedly makes the game more balanced, but it does not make Witchbolt a good spell and does not make it likely that anyone will...

Make it so Wizards are not special. I would give spells to all martials, and all intelligent enemies. Make every monster have spell slots equal to a caster of the level of their CR. That would give CR5s access to counterspell and dispel magic and would severely nerf the combat effectiveness...

True, but the Fighting style will be common on a character with a high dexterity who is typically using light weapons.

Any other character except a Monk or Goblin. ;)

I think my thing is any character can already attack as a bonus action with any scimitar simply by attacking with another light weapon first. So if you have to take the attack action it is not very powerful and it should not be very rare if you need to take the attack action to use it. The...

Scimitar of Speed: "You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. In addition, you can make one attack with it as a bonus action on each of your turns." The way I read this is I get to make a bonus action attack with it regardless of what I do with my action. So...

But here is the flaw in that - if they make (succeed) on 3 death saves and there is no reset then they are permanently stabilized and invincible. They get hit again and the PC says, I already made 3 so he is still stabilized.

1. I would have liked to see them take away multiclassing restrictions. After playing a lot of BG3 I am starting to think that being able to dip a Wizard with a 6 intelligence or a Barbarian with a 9 strength is such a bad thing. Based on the fireside chat it appears multiclassing will get...

After consideration, I think Magic initiate late in the game is the key to getting Chill Touch as you alluded to. Also since I plan to take my second Warlock level at level 10, I could also change out Mind Sliver if that is not working. Thanks!

EB is the best combat cantrip in the game. VM is pretty weak at high levels. It is very weak damage and disadvantage on only one attack and only then if the enemy fails its save. Past level 6 most enemies are using multiattack and at high level a lot of them are not primarily attacking at...

We are playing to level 20 and in high level games regeneration and spells like Heal and other massive healing options come up frequently and Chill Touch kills them. I know I will get use out of Chill Touch at high levels. I just don't know if it will be more than I would get from BB.

Playing a Winter Elandrin Glamour Bard with a Feylock Warlock dip in a 1-20 (actually 3-20) campaign. We are starting at 3rd level after our 3rd-level party TPKed last week. She is currently a Warlock 1/Bard 2 and starts as a Warlock. The plan is to go to level 6 Bard, then take another...

Question came up in combat Saturday in a game I was DMing. Once someone is stabilized at 0, how do death saves and damage work? For the purposes of this discussion lets assume we are not doing enough damage to kill by damage alone. Here is what happened in play: Grick surprised a 3rd level...

If I were the WOTC president the first thing I would do is make Holy Avengers and Staff of the Magi usable by every class. Once I got those essential changes out of the way, I would start looking at less important things like market share and intellectual property.