Recent content by Silam

I don’t have a side in this debate, but I am curious to hear about that 😅 How the hell did the Fighter (or any character really) one-time all three of these monsters 😄 ? Vorpal and nat 20s 😁🤣 …?

These below are all valid arguments, but they’re also not absolutely true. Feats can be designed either as cohesive or not. Let’s say we wanted to give Fighters more options, but by following a feat-based approach rather than a subclass approach. We could achieve this by setting a feat’s...

That is one path that can be explored to make the analysis feel less like white room theory crafting and more like a real game. Another path is to clarify what the actual scenario is. Currently, it feels like the scenario is both competitors are slugging into a punching bag for 6 seconds and...

I hear you and I personally like feats based off of PB. However, I want to slightly push back on the specific examples you gave. Magic Initiate can be scalable depending on what you pick. Many cantrips do scale with character level, which is exactly what we want. As for the level 1 spell, it...

This is a bummer, but also an opportunity. It is seen as normal to reach 20 in your main stat by level 20. With a stat at 15 from point buy and a +2 from a background, that means you can start at 17 and need just 1.5 ASIs or 3 half-feats. If you were frugal with point buy and/or you slammed the...

To me this sounds a bit fringe, but there could be some scenarios where it’s true. Ultimately, we can consider that classes are feat chains where each feat is a class level with the prereq of having taken the previous class level. Subclasses are feat chains where each level requires having...

Thanks for taking a stab at the math. Those numbers are compelling. I see that you’ve included True Strike for the Bard, but then you say you don’t really care about spells… but why? Do you not think that a defensive buff like Bladeward, which is at will, would help? It adds 2.5 AC on average...

Ok got it… I guess I may be used to fighting in cramped quarters or perhaps I encounter difficult terrain too infrequently. But to me it seems the base movement can already go a long way. Especially since CWB grants essentially the Monk’s and Rogue’s ability to Disengage as a Bonus Action, so...

That’s what I expected coming into this thread, but I was wondering about the quickbuilder and others which seem to refer to specific implementations.

Which builder are you all talking about? The one on D&D Beyond?

Is the point of teleporting around to let the 10 ft emanation affect more enemies on a spread out battlefield? Conjure Woodland Beings inflicts damage once per round per target, so doing ins and outs doesn’t repeat the damage. It can still be a nice amount of damage out of the box, but I don’t...

I meant the resistance/vulnerability as a separate feat, not another bullet of the one you posted. Another way to model it would be "Cold Bath"… if you have suffered damage from a AoE spell of your favored element in 2 of the last 3 days, you have resistance to that element. Cast that Fireball...

I like abilities that give an advantage and a disadvantage. More flavorful this way, IMHO. For an elemental themed path, I also like the concept of an opposite element. Though the D&D metaphysics don’t have a very clean elemental system so it may need to be created in a bit of a loose way...

I mean, sure… I won’t go super in-depth so this may be ultimately unsatisfactory, but let’s give it a shot. The main concern is that the Barb 6 gets their 5th level scaling via Extra Attack while the Fighter 3 / Bard 3 does not get any 5th level class feature. Fighter 3 gets some Weapon...

An important "scope" to carve out is resource expenditure. Is the build you’re measuring spending a slot per round like a smite-aholic? Or one short rest resource for the whole combat, like Action Surge? Or no expenditure at all? It would make sense to filter your first release by one of...