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This is not technically true. If you could reroll any number of dice that’s what it would come out to, but since you cannot then it...

Take sorcerer levels 1-4 first. At sorcerer 4 take Eldritch Adept - Pact of the Tome with EB as one of the cantrips. EB will then count...

GAH You're totally right - I completely messed that up.

It should be slightly better for the bounce than adding an additional dice by upscaling the spell, right?

Apparently yes. Adds around 5-7% more chance to bounce. Seeing that in action. The sorcerer player forgot the 1s treated as 2s effect.

Straight Fighter it would, but if you want damage early you still pretty much go battlemaster. I should note that for battlemaster I'm...

To me the issue here is plain as day. D&D started with 6 abilities. You remapped those to 4. Of course you can say everything in D&D...

I've calculated Empowered for fireball. Using +5 Charisma and before accuracy is considered. The 8d6 version is + 4.1 Damage The 9d6...

For Chromatic Orb, would elemental adept increase the bounce rate?

@evilbob I used my formula above to calculate the average damage of CO using your accuracy and bounce rates. I also removed hex since...

High AC targets. CO damage drops like a rock.

The point is the saves (no matter how many) cannot be easily balanced to each other. This isn't a trivial exercise. There's is no Holy...

To balance the game you cannot just balance a single dungeon. You have to balance every potential dungeon. Inevitably that means you...

Again.. Only works if both DM, Player , and Designers agree to the base assumption. Because I could make a Death Strength Save spell...

It's not that hard to calculate true average damage (maybe accounting for seeking and empowered makes that hard). But for just the...