Recent content by Michael Goguen

Hey folks, this has been stewing in my mind a bit and someone suggested posting it here to get people's thoughts on game balancing and so on. There's going to be a bit of fairly simple math in this post, please bare with me. 1. -allies and enemies will hit well armoured opponents about 50%...

I thought evasive footwork might be useful if my fighter was going to intentionally provoke a bunch of attacks of opportunity to use them up so other characters could retreat or something... use that manoeuver, then walk in and out of enemies reach (could be using the dodge action too) and then...

animal companions seem to die really easily too... they use to be tougher it seems like in other editions... or maybe i'm remembering wrong, i never really usually used them, but the seem like they could be useful to adding to numbers and group hp and stuff... i think our ranger in our party who...

I think there are some abilities (feat), like warcaster, that help with spell economy, or basically when you can cast a spell with like you weapon and shield or what have you in hand ... I had issues in one battle where I switched from firing and using a loaded crossbow, to a sword and shield...

I've been playing 5e for about 10 months now and I've played rpgs for like 25 years and was basically just trying to learn as I go but there are still a lot of things I'm not clear on. It's harder with mostly new players and dm in a way to learn this way too I find, because we all keep having...