Recent content by jurrubin

Being one of the min-max power players since the little white box in the 70's (we made our own multiclassing rules back then), I love the monk changes and the expanded use of feats (assuming the expanded use isn't optional). But that's it. I've been disappointed by the majority of rule changes...

Good catch. I'm so used to running a Paladin/Hex when I see a STR 13 come up during rolls that it's become second nature to think only of DEX/CON/CHA in that instance, especially since my DMs allow the use of all the character creation options from Tasha's and Xanathar's. That's a bias I hadn't...

I actively run Paladin/Hexblades in 3 different campaigns. The Wood Elf Paladin 8/Hexblade 2 multiclass is one of my top 3 favorite characters ever and I've been playing D&D since 1977. All the Hexblade abilities serve to support the Paladin in combat. Even the Eldritch Blast and associated...

"Traditionally, the Dungeon Master assumes god-like powers in a game of D&D. They are the omniscient narrator with power over everything but character choices." Speaking as someone who has been DMing D&D since 1978..wrong. The DM does NOT have "power over everything"; the DM has control only...

Wow. Good thing WotC doesn't have the license for the "Empire of the Petal Throne" RPG by M.A.R. Barker. They'd end up whimpering in a corner.

Absolutely correct. I started playing D&D 'way back in 1977 and since then I gained a few decades experience in GM'ing games using the RuneQuest/D100 game engine, which is skill-based rather than level-based. Since RQ/D100 allows characters to learn/gain any skills they put the necessary effort...

Again, wrong. Here's my exact words from my original post: "What he IS able to do is keep up with any other character build (front line, stealth, healer), heal them of wounds and disease, zip around the battlefield massively disrupting enemy attacks, survive attacks that have trashed...

Progression was Rogue 1, Paladin 1 & 2 then Warlock 1 & 2 for the EB focus and Devil's Sight because of the campaign story. I really missed that level 5 Extra Attack but the character development is being story-driven not optimization-driven. As for ability scores, I rolled them. Base rolls were...

Wrong. I did NOT explicity state that at all. Read my post again.

Fast forward to the year 2022..I'm running a Swashbuckling Hexblade of Vengeance (Rogue 3/Warlock 3/Paladin 5) Wood Elf that is THE devastatingly best all-around character I've run since I started playing D&D 'way back in 1977. Seriously. No, he's not able to out-damage a pure Barbarian...

Hello, everyone. Jurrubin here. Just moved to Bentonville, AR. Been playing D&D since it came in a little white box in 1977. Nice to see how the RPG industry has flourished since then.