Recent content by Lord Twig

As Horwath pointed out, Paladins get a +1d8 radiant damage bonus to all attacks for free at 11th level. Even with my improvements, at 11th level a ranger will have +1d6 force damage that requires concentration, requires a Bonus Action to apply it, and lasts 8 hours, but he can cast it again. At...

At 9th level it lasts for 8 hours, at 17th it lasts for 24 hours. So you wake up and cast Hunter's Mark on one of your friends. When combat starts you can take the Attack Action and place it on someone, no action required. If you drop it to cast a different Concentration spell you will have to...

Thank you for all the replies. I have thought it over and have increased the power even more. I realize it is still very modest (hence the title of this thread) and may not be enough for some people, but here it is: Level 1: Favored Enemy You always have the Hunter’s Mark spell prepared. You...

I think that would make the Ranger overpowered. Honestly the Ranger keeps up very well up until 11th level. So I wouldn't want to give them a boost before that. I primarily hear that the two thinks that cause a problem with Ranger having Hunter's Mark as a feature is that the concentration and...

Hi everyone. I wanted to get some feedback on my house rules for the 2024 Ranger. I think it is much improved from the 2014 version, but it could still use a little more. I didn't want to completely re-write the class, so here are my modest improvements. Thoughts? Level 13: Relentless Hunter...

Thank you for the thoughful response. Up to here I was just going to give a thumbs up to your post and leave it there, but I feel I should address your points below. I didn't say this at all. No where did I suggest you are an awful person or that your arguments aren't worth listening to. I did...

Ah, there it is. For all the criticism that people get for not liking 4e, and being accused of dumping on anything 4e related, here you are dumping on 5e and trying to tear it down because you don't like it. Maybe because it supplanted 4e, which is a game you, apparently, liked a lot? Are you...

I think you meant Action Surge granting extra attacks, but I don't know where you are getting casters having 10 attacks from. Maybe because they have AoE attacks? Whatever it is, I doubt it would match what a melee Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, etc., can do in terms of Single Target damage, which...

Barbarians don't get so angry they can fly. Wild Heart Barbarians can fly when they Rage, but they are descrived like this: "These Barbarians learn magical means to communicate with animals, and their Rage heightens their connection to animals as it fills them with supernatural might." So right...

It is better because relentless warriors are terrifying in a different way. Having different classes terrifying in the same way makes the game less interesting in my opinion.

You don't. They want to play two different games. At that point you bring them together and see if one of them wants to change thier character or if they want to play a different game. I have yet to find anyone so inflexible that that has not worked out.

Okay, apparently we have very different experiences here. I don't know of a single player or DM that wants magic items to be rare or excluded. And WOTC definitely did not exclude magic items or make them rare. They just are not required for the game to work. But there is not a single published...

I believe I understand where you are coming from here, and I have made my point. So no need to beat a dead horse. We might be on the same page here, but coming from different sides. I can see the influence that 4e had on the things you list (Hit Dice, cantrips, subclasses, "monster builder"...

That is not what I said. You are changing what I said and then attacking it. That is the very definition of a Straw Man argument. Honestly, I said it somewhat tongue in cheek. Yes, I know we can't prove any particular part of the 5e rules are solely responsible for the success of 5e, or even...

I guess some people just can't imagine that something not explicitaly called magic could be magic. I don't have that problem. It's pretty easy actually. I was starting to look at the good of 4e, but now I am starting to not like it all over again. I try to explain what I don't like and why, and...