Recent content by tetrasodium

"Weird progression"? I agree that there should have been more scaling rates than 5e gave us, but there's nothing "weird" about the 5e warlock's progression. Hexblade and EB don't have "weird" progression, they have identical progression to fighter extra attack but it's improved by shedding the...

Which of those 40 would you say was comparable to multitarget spells like web slow fog cloud firewall scorching ray &acid fog or single person ones like hold person ray of enfeeblement disintegrate? Don't forget teleport tiny hut alarm locate person/object/monster summon x & so on, can you dig...

Jacques ze Whipper has a ton of fun & interesting circu/renfest type videos of himself doing whip show performances up on YouTube &such if you aren't familiar with him Quite a few times I found myself needing to set my coffee cup down to keep from spilling it due to laughter at the results...

Mostly agree but think that also gets to the problem with calling fora blaster by way of calling for a "simple arcane caster". No matter how tight and well designed the resulting blaster is, "arcane caster" is too broad of a power set to avoid endless best in class near enough equivalent...

I don't see a reason for a "simple caster" unless you redefine "caster" in a way that makes it start to include stuff like the arcane archer where the "simple" spellcasting is streamlined down to choosing an element or whatever for your arrow. The nature of spellcasting means that...

Not really. The link to the repost of an ancient 3.5 guide I copied it from has them missing. I vaguely remember that the original guide had images of casters casting spells and such many years ago

I think what usually gets ignored is that cantrips stripped so much power from the buff/debuff and control force multiplier spells that at the time those wizards were more effective party members despite how awful their damage was with sling & crossbow. The 5e cantrips largely gave the wizard...

I don't think there was any particular reason that one example was chosen over any of the many other examples that could have been chosen. Recognizing that this video having more upvotes at the time Crawford was talked about record survey responses in the relevant survey would taint the self...

It seems that you are the only one posting on this as if the casual<->"super fan" spectrum is a black and white binary where anything other than total exclusive focus on the whims of casual players who you yourself described as people who "don't care" results in an immediate shift to whims of...

And yet here we are in a thread discussing some of the goals and specific elements in how his possible metaphorical juicer is coming together while the last book most of my players bought wasn't one published by wotc ;)

You oversimplify and misread/misstate my point. Catering exclusively to the other side of that coin and ignoring the group you dub "super fans" to endlessly cater to what is suspected to be the desires of players who don't care beyond their ability to show up to play at a table being run by one...

Let's say that the split to that"super fan"/casual coin is 80/20 for discussion purposes. On the other side of that think of the casuals sentiment that gave us the edition and half edition of endlessly chasing simplicity for purposes of simplicity and power creep as a sellable feature we have...

My guess is the "fans" who happen to be in the personal table with someone high up at hasbro or wotc and were able to answer their questions so answers could be interpreted and sent back to the designers as the goals that really matter for the next book or edition.

I dunno. Having the divide at 0-8 for low level & the 9-20 for high is probably a great divide with good reasons for each end. If you set the split too high it just ends up as a basically unused curiosity like the old epic level handbook. Starting with level zero & stopping just before tier3...

You are drastically underselling what the 5e caster has and dramatically overstating what the 3x one has. I can't even comment on that without highlighting how you've obviously stacked the comparison to look even worse t using 3.x sorcerer spell slot count and 5e wizard spell list for the...