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I'm of two minds on that stats. I don't want to follow the crowd because then I feel it waters down the race, you know? But standard is SAFER but it also ups competition. Also races like Yuan-ti and Tiefling, who are notoriously villainous races which go through a large amount of prejudice have...

Well, I just feel like so many races are +2 Str, +1 Con, so it didn't feel very special you know? Charisma felt unique as only Dragonborn share it. Dex is too strong, I know Bugbears do it, but they're the only ones. Wisdom and Intelligence don't seem to fit though. I guess when in doubt just...

The natural attack is a direct copy/paste word for word of the Lizardfolk's bite attack, without a single thing changed, from Volo's Guide to Monsters. It is an official race made by Wizards of the Coast in a published book, so I assume it was playtested thoroughly before release and it's bite...

That's a good one that fits lore, especially from the 4e PDF about letting slaves go and then tracking them down for fun. Another one might be giving them either a limited version of Kenku mimicry or the minor illusion spell as it says they like to lure people out with voice tricks and kill...

Do you think there is any other way to fairly express the pack mentality of the Gnoll? It feels core, but if it's too strong I don't mind cutting it. I want a fair race, one that's equal to other options, not an OP race that overshadows. I notice you mention I should go with strength. Should I...

Ah the bite was modeled after the Lizardman. The 35 movement speed is a carry over from the 7 squares in 4e but iirc none of the Gnolls in 5e have more than 30' movement speed. So I can reduce that to 30 no problem. The skill proficiency are modeled after the lore, but I can remove them if...

This is my attempt to port the 4e Gnoll Race from this source: http://www.wizards.com/files/367_Playing_Gnolls.pdf I took that as a basis and modified it using 5e Language and concepts as I understand them. Is this balanced? Original 4e Race as basis: RACIAL TRAITS Average Height: 7’ 0” – 7’...

This is a homebrew designed to give a base class that makes more sense for the Oathbreaker, Oath of Conquest and a new "Vice" called Fury. So far I've got a decent chassis I believe for the Blackguard, having converted it from the Heroes of Shadow from 4th edition to 5th edition. I used the...

I often like to challenge myself with converting an existing thing, such as a character, or class, from another game into D&D just to see how well the official mechanics of the game can pull it off. I was recently thinking about Illidan himself and his incarnations in Warcraft 3, World of...

Well yes, grappling is typically played the same way, however while in 4e the Fighter class was in the Defender Roll the Grappler sublass fighting feature made them more of a single target controller. I played it more like a WoW Rogue but instead of "Stunlocking" I grappled them to the ground...

Are grappling builds useful for damage dealer type characters? In 4e I had a vicious Gnoll Brawler that was focused more on damage than anything else but he could really put a hurt on people. Would something like an Eldritch Knight 11/Monk 9 with Enlarge Person and Flurry of Blows for the ground...

I've decided on something like 6 Warlock/14 Sorcerer purely using melee to spam stuff like Green-Flame Blade or Booming Blade cantrips. I will go with Chain. My reasoning: The Extra Attack and Lifedrinker don't add up in damage compared to just Green Flame Blading every turn. Any interesting...

A few things to note: Our DM had essentially race locked us into playing Elves. He then said Half-Elves don't exist because this world doesn't have humans. So basically he's a Drow for 2 reasons. 1) in 4th edition they were one of the best races for a Hexblade and 2) I'm race locked by DM to...

I had a character in 4th Edition who was the Hexblade class (straight up, it was just a class or subclass or whatever with multiclassing or anything) who was also a Drow. The three main points of the character is 1) Pyromancer/Fire Blaster/Nuker 2) Used Sword for offense/melee 3) Drow Would...