Recent content by Maxperson

Maybe you just have things you still want to do and don't want to die. No need to think the world can't get by without you or that you're doing it for the greater good. ;) As for it being selfish, pretty much everything we do is selfish. We eat because we don't want to feel hunger pain. We...

This is America. We're lucky they aren't still using floppy disks. :p

Yes. I doubt the path we see is the only path to lichdom. It's probably not even the only evil path to lichdom.

They're dead and cannot access any funds. The heirs who now have all the power could access those funds, but I doubt that very many would. They now have the power and funds, so why give it back? And that's before getting into souls that do not want to or cannot return due to being trapped.

Not really. Souls can choose not to return and many would just stay in the afterlife. Especially good people who are the most likely to have people who want to bring them back. The upper planes are idyllic for them. On the lower planes, demons, devils, etc. trap souls or turn them into...

If by completely new, you mean there from the beginning, you are correct. The 5e MM says that liches feed mortal souls to their phylacteries. The 5e MM says that souls that descend to the lower planes(abyss) are turned into Manes. Demon lords feed on manes, destroying them utterly. Soul...

I think you're asking for too much granularity. We already know that after dying the soul leaves the body and travels through the astral plane to the outerplanar destination. That's sufficient. The questions you ask should be up to the DM to work out if they ever come up. At what point does...

Aunt May was a Herald of Galactus. The Golden Oldie for the win!

I'd probably go with my favorite fighter, the battle master. For bard I'd go with the college of eloquence if that was available. If not, the college of lore.

Basically at the extremes it's less valuable. If you need a 20 to hit, rolling an extra die for advantage doesn't make you much more likely to succeed. If you need a 2 to hit, advantage provides a huge bonus, but you were going to succeed 95% of the time anyway, so it's not that helpful.

Some can take the enemy completely out of the fight. Suggestion for example. That's neither DPR, nor eHP. It's elimination with a single spell, while doing no damage.

Um, no. :P Note that I said SOME control spells are ALSO DPR. That leave the rest of those "some" spells as not DPR, as well as those control spells that have no DPR. Control abilities are similar. ;) What's more, the healing aspect changes the DPR to the fighter/bard and takes it away from...

Some of those are incomplete. Control is often going to be DPR, because the type of control also allows others hit more accurately and/or crit automatically, allowing greater DPR to occur. In those situations, it also becomes future enemy turns removed. Healing, which increases eHP also...

As a complete tangent, I've always disliked that phrase. How does it help God for you to seek treatment? It doesn't.

DPR analysis won't let you design the game, though. It will only let you design other damage dealing affects. The game is far more than damage. For example, your DPR analysis won't be helpful to a DM wanting to design a non-damage dealing spell of 3rd level.