Recent content by evilbob

Interestingly, I posted in this thread 11 years ago, and when I went back and read it, I was like: I don't even recognize this person. 😂 11 years later, I just tell people who are good at their jobs that they do the thing - no roll required. It goes back to the whole: unless there's a...

Mr. McClure, I have a question about your recent indictitement involving fish. But before that, I have to point out the the TWF feat does not add your ability modifier to ALL attacks. It only applies to the one extra attack granted by the light property! This means that the bonus action attack...

"Wizard" means "old." But yeah at least it got the boob window in, lol. Whew! And yes: AI has been trained on human-produced (stolen) art, which has human biases: especially including that women default to young and have visible cleavage, just like "person" defaults to "white person." Also...

Um... October... Did no one else think of Halloween? I know it's not entirely an international holiday but it's catching on. That makes me think Horror. Or Ravenloft (similar).

Seems like a bog-standard party in just about every way, or am I missing something? They look like they'd be sent to kill rats in the basement of an inn as their first assignment. 😂 Are the books just a string of clichés or are the characters given any depth?

Indeed, this is one of those times I feel like the AI didn't assume things that any human would assume. The woman looking in a different direction from her spell is weird; the hand above the child is weird. It's more like it just dropped him, lol. And again, woman = young woman.

TWF is definitely somehow more confusing in 5.5. You can get 3 attacks at level 4 with Dual Weilding, but only one of them adds your Dex to damage. It really seems like Hunter's Mark is required to go anywhere with this, unless you're a fighter or someone who can take the TWF feat, but that only...

100% agree. It's quite a pain

It's all the things! Every class can do this. Vex, rogue hiding with cunning action, barbarian's reckless attacks, basically everything a battle master does, (monk's stunning strike at level 5,) Guiding Bolt, Faerie Fire, Shield Master - prone is basically thrown around like candy any more...

A side effect of this thread is remembering that there are a large number of spells that I dismissed as useless years ago, and... that hasn't changed 😂

Advantage isn't the 100% guarantee at level 4 vs. level 11+, but I've found you can generally assume PCs have advantage in 5.5, so +6 is more like +11. I suspect that contributes to the feeling that encounter design is all over the place. The OP's original assumption about the encounter's...

Interesting! Where do you use this rule? It also allows for more natural ones, if that effects what you're using it for. (8.3% for crits/1s instead of 5%, for folks who don't want to look it up.) Edit: Dammit! I, too, was lured into a thread necro. It feels like it's getting more common?

The more I think about it, the more I think this is the difference. @Zardnaar has written a lot on the over-effectiveness of level 1 spells at high level. It feels related: the reward is too great for the risk in higher tier. Upcast THL being better than Cone of Cold just feels weird. Maybe the...

This is also my experience. To be fair: martials work best with caster supports and CCs; but LRs, advantages vs spells, and things like Globe of Invulnerability nerf casters hard while martials have basically guaranteed advantage to hit and resistances do nothing. Martials are now always...

I like this discussion and I'm happy to be a part of it! Getting tripped up over the exact wording of Suggestion isn't important: it's clear from the description that one legitimate usage is removing an enemy from a combat. Targeting that concentration check, counterspell, and LRs are really...