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What's weird to me is that 5.0 seemed far less tedious than 3.5. And now 5.5 is more comparable, tedium-wise. It feels like they took a step closer to 3.5/4.0 with 5.5 than 5.0, IMO. 5.0 was actually quite refreshing to me in that way; 5.5 is less so. Just FYI, higher levels still get far, far...

Thread title aside: I have noticed that 5.5 is more... cumbersome than 5.0. Part of it is that there's just so many options. All the time. Players get new abilities every level, magic items give new abilities, and the complexity keeps going up. Cannot tell you how many times players in our...

Having recently run this (SEO placement seems to put this high on lists of quick one-shots), I agree it's a good module for some kids. I tried doing a one-shot for some experienced players and some inexperienced (but not new) players and they went HAM on the first goblin patrol, then aggro'd the...

We like the exploding 20s critical house rule from some D&D YouTube/podcast group that I forgot: when you roll a 20 to critically hit, you crit, and roll again. If it's a 20 again, you do maximum possible damage on all dice, and roll again. If it's a 20 a third time, the thing just dies. Max...

Hey folks! I'd like to weigh in as well. Our group is excited to play a game that actually goes to level 20 so I finally read through this adventure, and my opinion is: it's bad. I actually like that it feels like a Disney Theme Park ride through Avengers Endgame But D&D. The issue is that it's...

And when you try to do both, you accomplish neither.

Yes, yes, 1000 times yes! I had literally this same experience: my first attempt to use the book was to look up dragons, to see how they were different. Huh. Not here. Flipped around... And I had literally the same thought! The game is called Dungeons and Dragons, they have to be in here...

The thing that is weird about this response is that you're not really arguing against the underlying point. You seem to be tearing down one example to prove one detail of the example wrong, which only works if the entire point is conditioned upon the example. But this point isn't conditioned on...

1st round. CME is pre-cast. And FWIW I disagree with your caveats: I think they are all far less likely than "a caster casts a spell within 15 feet of an enemy." But all of this is beside the point. I feel pretty good about my math, assumptions, and setup. If you disagree that MM doesn't work...

The "final" is the best version yet! Love it!

I've been using an 11th level wizard as my example, casting CME as 6th and MM as 5th. That does ~255 avg damage to a single target. At level 15, any wizard could pre-cast CME as 8th and MM as 7th. That's +10d8 per attack, with 9 attacks. 9d4+9+90d8=526.5 damage that cannot be avoided or saved...

I'm not really trying to convince you, and this isn't personal or anything. Of course there are situations where two fireballs are better - I showed that already - but they'll never do as much single-target damage, ever. Not even two disintegrates can do that much. Nothing can. Also: CME has a...

I feel like that would be even trickier, as you'd have those modifiers sort of in the way of you writing the new totals, and they'd be referring to the one above where you're writing. Erasing would cause them to get messed up quickly as well - which is part of why I like putting them further...

This is why I tried to show a more reasonable example, as opposed to throwing around your entire stable of top-level spells with an oddly multi-classed character. I agree that compared to other top-tier evocation AOE spells vs. multiple targets, I think CME may not turn out too extreme in actual...

I also like this. You aren't asking for suggestions, but personally I might try putting the (mod) text just after the names of the skills - like the previous 5.0 sheet did. I know that will make things tight, since Animal Handling and Sleight of Hand are in different columns, so you might have...

Thank you! I missed that. Updated my post. This isn't the point of this thread, but I disagree. It's still an attack that does damage; the text doesn't specify an attack roll. But regardless, Scorching Ray is an example that works.

That's one of my favorite ones!!! I think it does a great job of evoking the feeling you'd want to feel while playing that character!

This thread confused me quite a bit because it never explained why Conjure Minor Elemental (CME) is a problem - it was assumed everyone understood the text and the issue. Without that explanation, it is hard to see what could help fix it. For anyone else like me: CME (4th level, concentration...

Oh I can go on and on with specific examples. I love that each subclass has its own feature. I love that so many examples of spells or characters made me - someone who has played over 20 yrs - go "ohhhh, so THAT is how that could look!" (Like Entangle! They made that dumb spell actually cool!) I...