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Yeah, levels 1 and 2 each only take half an adventuring day to gain enough XP to level up. By design, because they’re supposed to be...
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That's because it was designed as a dungeon crawler. Because it had to cover that aspect of play that people would certainly use. That...
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Actually 4e introduced it and 5e repurposed it. It means 6-8 combats with one or two short rests in between. Which the DMG explains. It...
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If you look at the threads here, there are MANY people who understood what the DMG said perfectly. But here is not a representative...
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Those are spells that an arcane halfcaster warrior class could use. Except for the cantrip donut spells made for the half Arcane...
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Wow, 20 rounds of combat between long rests, with combats assumed to last about 3 rounds means they were expecting approximately 6 or 7...
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I knew this and said this for years now. Under "normal optimization", casters' offense craps out at around round 15-25. Also an...
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Not necessarily. Again. You'd just need custom Gish spells that are overtuned for their spell level but not on the wizard spells list.
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Not really. The spells for a Smordmage/Gish currently don't exist. And if they did, they would be overpowered in the hands of a wizard...
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But... that's not how warlords ever worked. It was almost always the warlord's turn when the character took an action and then granted...
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As for the Warlord, my idea to not cause the Warlord to be a battlemap slog or a turn interuptor is to have a Command aura. Those in...
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This is why I'm growing to the idea that the gish class does not get extra attack. Not as Strong in fighting as a Fighter Not as Strong...
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because while bladesinger might be powerful as a fullcaster wizard with additional martial capabilities on top it's actually pretty ass...
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Exactamundo. A swordmage is a character for whom swordplay is magic, and magic is swordplay. To separate the two would be like asking a...
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Its more or less how I see it. EK doesn't really feel like a gish to level 7ish even though they technically cast spells before then...
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