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This always made sense to me. DEX to aim the bow, STR to draw the string back further for more damage.

I was thinking they might incorporate the Crusher, Piercer, and Slasher feats from Tasha's into base weapon properties (minus the ASIs, of course).

Ah, I knew there was something I was missing. It was never really a fully fleshed out thought, just the germ of an idea marinating in the back of my brain while I was at work doing boring accounting stuff. On the ride home I thought that the “performance” part of this made up subclass would be...

I was just thinking the other day how D&D forums seem like the anti-WoW forums. On WoW forums, most people boast, "my favorite class is awesome and all the other classes suck!" On D&D forums, most people lament, "my favorite class sucks and all the other classes are awesome!" The more I think...

Yeah, that one took me a while to figure out when I first started reading these forums. They're listed in the PHB as Personality Trait, Bonds, Ideal, & Flaws, which would make the acronym PTBIF - which doesn't really roll off the tongue well. But eventually, probably based on the context...

I posted this and then realized I was 3 pages behind, and I was late to the party. But this whole conversation is giving me flashbacks to 3e/3.5e where I always tried to make sure my character had a silvered weapon in case we ran into a were-creature. And another thing I didn't take into...

I think you missed the "magic" part of question. If you usually wield a normal greataxe and find a magical greatsword . . .

So if your greataxe wielding Fighter stumbles across a magic greatsword, you're just going to toss it aside because you only use one weapon: a greataxe?

They're there for the players to use. If the players choose not to use them . . . well, you can lead a horse to water . . . It's just like Inspiration: it's right there in Chapter 4 of the PHB. Not every tables uses them, but they've been made available. It's interesting that 1DD seems to be...

I'm not saying ranged attacks are overpowered and need to be nerfed. But if such an adjustment must be made, the simplest solution would be to revert back to 3e/3.5e where your DEX (or STR for thrown) modifier was not added to the damage. For the record, I don't like the OP's option 1 and...

Yeah, those kinds of quirks and hang-ups should really be character-based, not class-based or race(species)-based. After all, that's what the BIFTs section of the character sheet is for.

This. I know it’s semantics, but Circle of the Moon invokes images of wolves howling at the moon, which implies beasts. I’m intrigued by the idea of allowing Moon Druids to Wild Shape into Monstrosities, but I haven’t looked over the full list of Monstrosities to see if there are any...

I was giving this some thought yesterday and this is as far as I got with my notes: Energy manipulation Evocation - manipulate energy of elements Necromancy - manipulate energy of life & death Mind penetration Enchantment - affect minds Illusion - deceive the senses Matter affects...

Maybe they should revamp the Specialist Wizard subclasses like they do the Eldritch Knight or the Arcane Trickster where you need to have a certain percentage of your spells from your specialist school. Or like how 3e did it, where you had to give up another school. Or both.

For me, there is a big difference. The Summoner, by name, summons creatures; whether a single powerful entity (like a Demon or a Devil) or a swarm of small minions (like Imps or Quasits), that is the essence of the class. The Necromancer can summon (or raise) undead creatures, but there is...

Which is ironic given that, over in the fighter brainstorm thread, people were saying that the Fighter is utterly boring and the most complained about class.

So it’s kind of like I thought it was. The Fighter leads the way at 13%, followed by the Rogue at 11%. The other 10 classes are in single digits ranging from 9% down to 6%. So, while the Druid is last as the lone 6%er, it’s not dramatically far behind the rest of the classes (considering 5 of...

I wouldn’t mind seeing the results from this particular poll, but my Google-fu is letting me down. A quick search resulted in numerous unofficial polls in various forum threads, as well as a 2017 poll that focused specifically on subclasses. ☹️

Well, there's the quandary. Not everyone in the community thinks the game is bad and needs to be made better. And those that do think the game needs to be made better don't agree on how WotC should go about making it better. So what is WotC supposed to do if they want to improve the game but...

My biggest question is: to what extent are Druids the "least played" class? there are 12 classes in the PHB, so if they were played equally, that would be 8.33% each. But they're obviously not played equally, so mathematically one of them has to be the "least played" class. If Druids are only...