Recent content by jayoungr

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As a note from actual experience, I've played a Drunken Master monk up to level 13. The hitpoints haven't been a huge problem for me because of the subclass feature giving me a free disengage with Flurry of Blows. This generally allows me to be out of melee range by the time whatever I'm...

Out of curiosity, why aren't you playing something like 3.5 or Pathfinder? Those would probably be the crunchiest options within the D20 family. Is there something you don't like about them, or is it just that 5E is currently the biggest game in town?

Fair--I just don't really like that version, so I tend to forget about it.

I do find myself wishing for morale checks. They don't really fit any of the ability saves neatly.

I've mentioned this before on the board, but I houserule shatter as follows: If the area of shatter includes a stone or wooden wall, the spell causes bits of the wall to crumble and break off. All squares inside the area of the spell and adjacent to the wall become difficult terrain. I just...

Or the problem could be with your DM, and not the feature.

I just think it gives too much of an incentive to select a background based on its mechanical impact.

Never said they were. But a feat is a bigger deal mechanically than some skills and tool proficiencies. As for the feature, it is usually RP-related or at least encourages some RP. You can if the GM agrees it makes sense for the situation you're in.

It makes your background choice more about power and less about RP, though, which is a step away from my preferred direction.

If fully describing means converting the whole series of 2E books to 5E, it could easily run to that much.

No Giff in a regular pirate setting.

My usual rule is PC-versus-PC violence, trickery, etc., is okay if (and only if) both players agree to it. But it sounds like everybody at your table was cool with it, so rock on.

So will the box set come with the new-to-5E Cavalier and Acrobat classes?

Not really. I remember the guy who used to moan about once a month about the slow release schedule, predicting that 5E would flop miserably as people deserted it for better-supported systems... Anyway, I feel like this specific complaint has been on the rise over the past few years.