Recent content by xorpalm

Never been really satisfied by the UA's or original beastmaster, here's scratching my itch, my son's "allowing" me to play test this in his upcoming Eberron campaign, would love feedback. Beast Master: Level 3: Primal Bond You have been able to magically bond with a primal spirit of a...

yep, missed the next line stating max hp goes down by your level, should stop trying to speed read. thx. I guess that's pretty hefty cost ... won't be greasing too many throwing knives :)

I was a little confused at that blood rite description... (wound yourself is a little trite) I assume you do a weapon attack against yourself (without critting?, automatic success?) with the required weapon and then roll the damage die?

Okay, here's a compromise; Starting at fifth level you have the following options: a) attack action ranger (2 ranger attacks) ; b) attack action pet (possibly 2 pet attacks)...

Currently my scaling is CR 1/2 at 7th and CR 1 at 11th. Pouring over the beasts in the monster manual is exactly what a beastmaster should be about... at least in my opinion anyways :). I changed the level 15th power to use adjacency instead of the pet hitting the target to give advantage...

Yeah, but I'm trying to balance the class in WOTC terms- kind of as they wrote it; if you leave the conversion as 1 attack = 1 pet attack action; then you get the same power creep - a two weapon beastmaster is making 4 attacks if you include his pet having multi-attack. I assumed...

I agree with what you say; though I wonder how to handle multi-attacks. In the warlock chain pact, you never have the warlock or the familiar multi-attacking. So you could probably get away by simply using the rangers attack action for either him or his pet; this lets the ranger retain his...

I'd love to get some feedback on my beast-master archetype. The latest ranger arcana really rubbed me raw, as it really avoided the whole beastmaster thing. I also think the other phb5e ranger archetype is fine as-is. Read it at this link: Beast Master (google docs) updated: beast uses...

I don't get the pile on for the fighter subclasses, the battlemaster specifically seems well rounded to me, add to the fact that more stat boosts let you get more feats then any other class, means you can even distinguish your character even more. Champion is a little lackluster in class...

I'd say no. The first paragraph says you *create* your pact weapon each time. For the bonded weapon, in the next paragraph, it says you don't create it but *call it from an extradimensional space* So I'd suggest you can create any magical pact blade you want, but if you want the bonded...

So I'm playing a warlock ( bladepact, starting fighter 1 then multiclass warlock ftw) My character rolled up the trinket, a weightless cube... after a lot of physics discussion ( a weightless cube with mass of 4kg will slowly rise due to buoyancy effects ) I decided to incorporate the trinket...

So with my Swashbuckling Sailor Warlock PC, I was looking into sailing speeds. The PHB has 2 mph for a sailing ship, which seems quite low. At the url below (sorry , no linky allowed from me) , it says speeds for ancient sailing ranged from a little under 3mph ( < 2 knots ) up to 12 mph (...

saving throws I'm planning on dex based fighter 1, 19 warlock, dual wield scimitars. One of the perhaps overlooked benefits of fighter/barbarian start is that you get proficiency on constitution saves, which helps maintain hex in the heat of the battle. [edit: this was mentioned in first...

Yes, it would be nice to fine tune with the monster manual. I'm kind of expecting the upper bound to be the fact that Druids can shape-change into beasts of CR level/3 after 6th level. They however, don't get the actual double attack from the beast ( triple if you include the rangers attack)...

As far as I know, our only hope for immediate-ish more class options is in the Dungeon Master's Guide in November. I'm not sure anything else has been officially announced, but I'm pretty sure more splat is un-officially expected, seeing as the PHB is a pretty tightened down manual. I'm sure...