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Thanks very much for answering. I'm unclear about using a holy symbol on a shield as a focus. Is this something you're always allowed to do instead of using the specific material component listed with a spell? Take Bless for example.

Thanks. I read a mathematical breakdown on Advantage last night and it's like +4 or +5 most of the time (if you need to roll something fairly average to succeed). Giving +5 to hit a flanked target does strike me as totally absurd. Combat would become a game of flank (and avoid flanks) at all...

Does this mean you have time to sheathe the weapon, cast the somatic or material spell, and then unsheathe the weapon again? I'm just not clear at all on how M and S work with a paladin who holds a weapon and shield.

I have a paladin question. How does it work with somatic components if you're using a sword and board? I saw this, which is apparently from Jeremy Crawford, but I'm still not sure on the basics here: can a Cleric or Paladin cast spells requiring somatic components when wielding weapon + shield...

Isn't giving Advantage for flanking a bit absurd? In 4E, you'd get +2, "combat advantage," which is pretty darn good, but doesn't Advantage work out to something like a +5? Being surrounded is bad enough, but granting Advantage on top of that seems unnecessarily deadly.

Are there many healing spells or abilities that use Charisma?

I've got a 5th level paladin, though I've only played him twice, but I would definitely be concerned about losing your Concentration spells. Even with a high AC, you're going to get hit and/or take damage. The best improvement will come from boosting your Con saves because AC is a no-brainer. I...

Our 13th Age game is heavily gridded. No reason you can't do that in 13th Age. I'd recommend against borrowing Advantage from 4E. I've flirted with that idea in 13th Age because I love the Advantage mechanic, but it opens a can of worms. Advantage is crazy powerful in a 13th Age game where...

This may sound too simple, but for me I fixed the problem with 4E combats with one simple change: Everything in the game has 10% (or 15%) fewer hp. That's it. Those long, grindy combats are spared those final boring rounds of everyone trying to hit and kill stuff that's clearly going to die...

Paladins were tough in 4E. You typically went either CHA or STR-based, and either route had limitations. Like bad OAs with CHA paladins unless you paid a feat tax, though that option wasn't even in the PHB1; or your divine challenge and many nice powers were bad if you were STR-based. You were...

I'll say this for 5th edition, though. The classes seem really well designed, so much that playing your favorite class is likely to feel awesome. For example, I love playing paladins. Although 4th ed. is still my favorite edition of D&D, the 4th edition paladin wasn't terribly well designed. But...

If you like 4th, as I do, I'd play 13th Age over 5th Edition. 5th Edition is a great, elegant system if you feel nostalgia for an older system such as 2nd edition, and it expands creative options for resolving party problems (not as combat-focused as 4th, by a long shot), but it's going to feel...

Good stuff, thanks. His numbers don't include spells, but that's great info.

I'm still pretty new to 5E, but I joined the Tiamat campaign with a paladin on the night the party leveled up from 4th to 5th. The DM mentioned that plate is much harder to come by, so I started with Splint instead. No problem. But I'm curious: around what level my paladin might (or should)...

I found this thread on STR-INT-CHA saves: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?358186-Strength-Intelligence-and-Charisma-saving-throws