Recent content by Zalabim

The biggest flavor problem with the 5E sorcerer is that the font of magic, sorcery points conversion, and metamagic features combine to encourage you to play magical accountant, and the fixed spells known list encourages you to plan your spell list from 1 to 20. It takes the book of...

In the third case, typically it's not the magistrate trying to convince a PC to take a job at a certain cost, but a PC trying to convince a magistrate to increase a job's pay. In any case, something that came up in the discussion, is that Persuasion and Intimidation are means, not goals. They...

The problem that stands out the most in the Ranger, to me, is the lack of a unique feature. Sorcerer shares this problem to a degree, even with having its subpaths start at level 1. Every other class has differentiating features at levels 1 and 2 that make that class stand out from other...

The problem the ranger faces is that people absolutely will not accept a ranger with/without 1) Spellcasting 2) Favored Enemy 3) Animal Companion or just about any other feature anyone names.

But Capn, the DMG does address variant rules on what qualifies for a Short/Long Rest, both speeding up (for "1 hour rests in a dungeon is impossible") and slowing down (for "6 encounters in a day outside a dungeon is impossible.")

When you take the Attack action is not the same as when you make an attack. It's like a benefit that says "When you take the Dash action, you can ignore difficult terrain's increased movement cost for your turn." You don't have to wait until you've finished your movement, and you likewise don't...

The fighter could choose feats for a benefit other than extra damage in combat, like Healer or Resilient (Wisdom). The monk could also take Sharpshooter. I'm just not interested in revisiting the mechanics of trading attack bonus for damage bonus. It should suffice to say that the fighter does...

At level one, monk does 13, fighter does 11.33. At level 5, monk does 32 with flurry, 24.5 without flurry, and fighter does 24.66, and has action surge, and 4d8 SD. At level 11, monk does 38 with flurry, has extra Ki for stunning strikes, and fighter does 40 and has action surge and 5d10 SD...

Fighters, rangers and warlocks add more attacks. Monks make a lot of attacks, but reach their max of 4 at level 5. Fighter subclasses, rangers, barbarians, paladins, monks, rogues, and spellcasters in general scale at higher levels by dealing more damage per attack. The fact that fighters get...

I don't think TWF gives rogues a better chance to crit on sneak attack, since no one's going to hit their first attack then decide to chance a second attack to see if they can crit. If your DM has you roll all your turn's attacks at once, then that is one boon. The big consideration you...

No one's mentioned the other benefit to medium armor yet. Shield proficiency comes bundled with medium armor proficiency (except for Dwarves). On the scales of character resources to AC, light armor costs the least gold and the most character stat points to reach 17 AC, needing proficiency and...

The wording on the grappling answer has me wondering if there's going to be a clarification on whether Shove or Grappling can be the melee attack used when an enemy triggers an OA, or if that's an Attack action only option. The wording in the book is weird. (It is plain that Multiattack wouldn't...

A battle master fighter, using a similar style of combat, and getting normal rests per day is about equal to a paladin or ranger. If they spend the extra ASI on combat feats, they pull ahead. If a party is never taking short rests, or one of the characters is using a less damage focused style...

There's already spell effects that break the action economy. Haste gives someone extra movement and an extra action. Spiritual Weapon lets a cleric trade a bonus action for a pseudo-weapon attack. Summon spells let the caster command multiple creatures with just a bonus action or only speech (no...

My latest tinker with fixing TWF is to change the fighting style to add your off-hand damage die to your main hand weapon hits for any attack that qualifies to TWF. You can still make the extra attack with your off-hand as a bonus action without the bonus stat to damage. Dual Wielder has to be...