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DMs are a dime a dozen. Shoot your DM. Get a new one.

I think that my initial post was heavily influenced by the fact that I didn't want my wizard to be a cookie cutter "let's pull out Sleep" PC. When there is a spell that almost every player uses that is so good (i.e. no roll to hit, no save, one or more foes typically affected), it does sharply...

I think that the issue with the spell is that it is damage only. The wizard gives up his safety, a lot of his movement, and his action every round in order to do basically a hair better than cantrip level damage. It controls the wizard more than it controls the target. There are a few old...

Assuming that a low level wizard actually has this. IME, most don't. Unfortunately, you are assuming that the wizard is within 30 feet of the foe to begin with. Many encounters do not start that way. If the wizard hangs back, which many players do with squishy wizards, then yeah, most of the...

Well, some of us were playing AD&D 1E in 1978, we just had a limited set of rules (maybe 10 or 12 pages) for the DMG that TSR had put out.

Creatures only take damage the first time on a turn that they enter the Wall of Fire. After that, they can enter the wall as many times as they want on the same turn without taking damage.

I think this is a case of RAI instead of RAW. Technically speaking, Wall of Fire isn't a Line AOE because it doesn't state that it is. It isn't a Cone, Cube, Cylinder, or Sphere either. I think that the designers meant it to be a Line, but they didn't state it. Wall of Ice and Wall of Stone...

1) The example I provided in the link doesn't actually illustrate that the wizard is a top damage dealer. If we look at this, we see the example of a DM that is either so generous that I wouldn't want to even play in his campaign (i.e. foes almost always fail saving throws, the wizard's...

I once saw a player roll 2 16s, 2 17s, and 2 18s on 3 of 5d6. The odds of 6 16s or higher is about 1 in 6250, so the odds of this are lower (probably in the magnitude of 1 in 1.2 million).

14 16 12 (19, Amulet of Health, we have 8th level PCs and started at 8th, so the DM allowed each player to pick one rare magic item from the DMG; two players actually wanted an Amulet of Health, but the DM only allowed one) 14 14 14 We have a group that enjoys a lot of combat, so Con is often...

Seriously? Without knowing anything about the scenario or the plan, you came to the conclusion that not using the spell was fear based. Could it just be possible that the plan required a second concentration spell from the wizard in order to work? I was trying to do something subtle. And...

Of course not. It's just that the one time we wanted to use, it, yes we did want Suggestion to work for a really long time. Yeah, that would be an incorrect assumption on your part. I actually wanted to do something cool with Suggestion that didn't involve blowing up anything.

Actually, it you go back and reread the very first post in this thread, you'll see an example of me tracking damage. Of course, it is anecdotal since it is based on one adventuring day, but it was a typical example of a better adventuring day experience for my PC, 35 points of damage in 4...

So you state. I'm fairly sure that this wasn't the case in the campaign where I posted this thread. We had a great time, myself included. I just felt that being the party Detect Magic Nodwick wasn't the role that I had signed up for. Part of that was my extremely unlucky run of dice rolls for...

I wasn't aware that I was complaining, just making an observation. Are you stating that Witch Bolt is a good spell to take relative to other first level damaging spells because once in a blue moon, it might have some minor limited control? That appears to be arguing just to take an opposing...

Bad DM, unlucky DM, unlucky player, lucky DM (from monster point of view). It's a bit unfair to say that every bad experience is because of a badwrongfun DM. It could be other players whose PCs get in the way of the PC Wizard's plan, it could be a change of creature layout half way through a...

Except that the bonus action rules specify that you can use your bonus action whenever your want (unless it is spelled out otherwise). Plus: PHB 190 Other Activity on Your Turn You can communicate however you are able, through brief utterances and gestures, as you take your turn. You can...

Except it is the same word for word requirement as Extra Attack: "Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn." If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to ... You choose when to take a bonus...

Odd. Since bonus actions can interrupt movement and other actions, it would seem that once the requirement of doing a single attack (and hence taking the attack action), that the rest of the attacks could go after the shove.

It means how much extra DPR one gets with Shield Mastery sword and board with your interpretation, with my interpretation, and comparing it to just bumping Str by 2. Basically, your interpretation allows for an average of 1 advantaged attack per round against large or smaller foes at level 5...