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I don't know about exhaustion in 5.24, but what I did for my Baldur's Gate 2 campaign was sub in Proficiency Bonus drain. If the PB hits -1, the effect is -1 to all rolls. They were pretty good about staying away from vampires. It's a lot harder to land bites since they always require setup.

Thanks for posting this! I just watched all of it and am now going back to the lecture series.

My experience is that white-room forum discussions keep treating in-combat healing as useless, when it's actually been pretty clinch for me as a player and for my players as a DM multiple times. Life gets you 3 points of extra healing out of a 1st level Cure Wounds, and the CD gets you 15hp of...

A. No Fighter, Rogue, Cleric, Wizard. I read this as "pick 4" so here we go. 1. Paladin handles the faith/church/healing role, with subclasses leaning more martial or caster. Not as tough as the reworked Barbarian, but they are the only ones who have access to magical healing, smiting, and...

Not really, more of an alternative. Luck rolls never add proficiency, so you don't want to use Luck if you have skill at whatever you're rolling. I've been trying to figure out how to make a Luck stat work for years, and you fixed it by having it apply to straight rolls instead of added to others.

What if it was "you can add this to any roll in place of your normal modifier, but you don't add your Proficiency Bonus"? This makes it the Luck stat. Death save? Add luck. Attack roll when you're not good with weapons? Add luck. Trying to pick a lock when you don't know how? Add luck. A...

I really like the SPECIAL system from Fallout. I like the idea of a Luck stat, but I have never figured out how to make it apply to a TTRPG in a way that doesn't make it the ur-stat like Dexterity is often claimed to be. If WOTC put me in charge of 6e and said to shake things up, I'd probably...

Yep, I'm having to use the monster cards instead of the monster manual for my 11yo because of some of the art. Not so much the sexuality (I think one of the fairies and the succubus are about it) as the grossness and bad dreams that could come from zombies, dretches, ghasts, flesh golems, etc...

Artificer: Just a little bit underpowered. Barbarian: I changed Brutal Critical to grant bonus damage = to barbarian level on a crit. Berserker Frenzy should be a 2x PB/day BA attack for free while raging. The rest of the subclass is pretty great. Storm Herald Barb is underpowered and the...

It certainly looks like this is a better adventure than most of the ones published by WOTC. The thematics aren't to my taste, but I assume the authors have something else in the works also.

1980s D&D: The Satanic Panic is all made up! D&D is safe and harmless. 2020s D&D: Hold my beer and watch this. We're going to make a whole book in honor of a real-world group that at least dabbled in the occult and named Satan as their honorary president.

D&D Beyond doesn't support the barbarian either; activating Rage doesn't list resistances or increase weapon damage. I would chalk this up to the usual - they do what they do, and if they've missed something, maybe they'll fix it next year or maybe they won't. It took, what, 10 months to get a...

Yeah, it was really annoying how many full-on fiend looking tieflings there were in the Tasha's art. I am not onboard with them being super common.

Related: In my Baldur's Gate II game, HP growth followed the 2e model. After level 10 you get 3, 2, or 1 hp per level based on your character class. Nobody's ever going to crack 200hp without an epic boon, and the casters are still a little under 100hp at level 17. This keeps the players...

One of the few times my high level party turned tail and ran away was after the 18th level artifact-sword-wielding Paladin peered into a crevice and got mind-blasted by a CR2 Intellect Devourer. They left the entire (optional) dungeon they were exploring and flew elsewhere, with the drooling...