Recent content by UngeheuerLich

I can say, the guardian was strong in 2014. Would always be my prime option. On the other hand, having two more options is also nice. Since now, you can easily create any armor you want with your plans, no need to have the base item, you can transmute your armor from medium to heavy and...

The Alchemist is not bad by any means. They can entirely focus on int with true strike or cantrips doing fire or Acid damage. Acid splash is an area spell. Adding int bonus to it is great. Poison spray and fire blast have high damage dice. Adding int bonus to the damage helps preventing dealing...

I'd say reddit is the worst you can do if you can't differentiate between good and bad takes. Often things are upvoted, because they are basically rants, while correct statements get downvotes. Many people at reddit are terrible at math, especially statistics.

Depends on the interpretation. "Counts as" does not necessarily mean "they are". Again. Depends on the interpretation. But if you use an invocation or somehow happen to find a real magic weapon, why not. Thumbs up.

The artificer is buffed compared to 2014. At level 5 you have a permanent humunculous that you can control without using an action. So you always have a summon. In my opinion this spell should be always prepared as it is such a core feature. A little sad that extra attack don't get to use...

You can't get magic armorer weapons. You seem to misunderstand that ability.

That was a oversight in the 2014 rules and is kept. Dumb but the intend is clear in that case.

But they added one or two different items. Depending how you read different, it is probably the upgraded version.

If you like to shoot yourself in the foot by not actually taking arcana, that is on you. Manyfold tool is a common magic item. They can easily craft that.

Class/subclass balance has never been equal. Some classes rely on their subclass to do great things. Others less so. Artificers have a lot of power/utility in their subclasses. My armorer warforged in 5.14 was a moving tank. And with their homunculus a great utility character. A famililar...

Good catch. WotC reacted!

@Changeling and using dash on initiative: already errated to allow moving half your movement speed.

Yeah. But that is not the only part of the game. Just looking at that part does not do the wizard justice. As every other class. Not if arcane investigation is the task. It is one pillar. Doing exploration and social tasks well might allow you to not do combat or combat under a lot better...

In your games. Not in ours. It is nice though. You have enough starting gold as a wizard for that. You admitted that your games are just hack and slash. Going by your list, every class is C, as they are all situationally useful. Or Tiers are so close together, it does not matter at all. I...

No. Level 2 is not great. But they still have their ritual spells and spells known going for them. Unseen servant, floating disc, detect magic, alarm, find familiar. All great spells. You have enough rituals for the life span of 2nd level for free. Whatever. I kniw your opinion. That does not...