The Pact of the Chain and Pact of the Blade constraints are far too limiting. Forcing a Chainlock to only have a coyote familiar takes away a lot of the utility, for instance. Having the stats of one of the four special familiars but having the appearance of a coyote would be much fairer...
Okay. I've played around with Monk subclasses. This will be my first Ranger one. I chose Ranger because I couldn't come up with anything remotely unique using another class (I'm looking at you, Rogue [yeah, I know, you could do something very Matador-like with a Swashbuckler]).
Full...
Let’s play with that. Call it the Way of the Rikishi or Way of the Grasping Palm.
Level 3
Iron Grip
Proficiency in Athletics if you don’t already have it.
Add twice your proficiency bonus to grapple checks.
Can initiate a grapple as a bonus action.
Massive Body
You can choose to use STR...
Paladins tend to be physically strong, front line kind of people. Not always the best choice for every situation. There's enough variation among Warlocks between Pacts, invocations, and spell choices to provide Celestial Patrons with a wide variety of potential servants.
Oooh. Pact of the Blade should be getting an upgrade in Xanathar's too. I'm guessing the re-worked invocations Eldritch Smite and Improved Pact Weapon will be in the book. And Grasp of Hadar will allow you to pull enemies into your Scourge aura. Maybe Sentinel to keep them there?
Mearls mentioned Ki-Rin as a potential Patron. So you can make a deal with a shiny gold horse that lives in clouds or tall mountains. That can control weather and cast healing spells out the wazoo. The monster description even states "If the ki-rin has taken creatures into its service, its...
https://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/June5UA_RevisedClassOptv1.pdf
The exploding self-heal (Searing Vengeance) was moved to level 14, Healing Light (the healing dice pool) was moved to level 1, and Radiant Soul (+CHA mod to fire and radiant spells) was moved to level 6. The temporary HP...
Well, obviously temporary HP affects all damage vs. the basic B/P/S resistance. I think they had Fighting Spirit in mind when they wrote the text for Strength Before Death. So if you invoked Fighting Spirit when Strength Before Death triggered, you would have triggered the B/P/S resistance and...
Well, obviously temporary HP affects all damage vs. the basic B/P/S resistance. I think they had Fighting Spirit in mind when they wrote the text for Strength Before Death. So if you invoked Fighting Spirit when Strength Before Death triggered, you would have triggered the B/P/S resistance and...
Just some thoughts of mine on a custom Monk subclass. Definitely not Adventurer's League legal, but I don't play AL. Was just looking for input on the mechanics before I start writing any fluff.
All the Tortle talk got me thinking about water ninja in movies and anime. So I made a thing. Please comment.
Way of the Torrent
Level 3
Flowing Water Technique
When you use Patient Defense, you may add your proficiency bonus to your AC for any attack you can perceive.
In addition, if an...