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Very true. A dedicated healer isn't strictly necessary. Realistically, short rests and healing potions can handle nearly all of your HP healing needs. That's boosted even further if you have a character who's a quasi-healer, like someone with the Healer feat and a Healer's kit (especially a...

Lay On Hands is more efficient for in-combat healing than Cure Wounds, but not Healing Word. Healing Word is a Bonus Action. Cure Wounds and Lay On Hands are both an Action, so you can't do much else that turn. Similarly, Paladins don't get Mass Healing Word, but they do get Aid. Aid can be...

The UA Giant Soul Sorcerer had bonus spells as well.

They also did it with the UA Giant Soul Sorcerer, which never made it to primetime.

I agree that a Familiar and other Wizard summons is definitely thematically appropriate for a Shepherd Druid. However, even a Fey Familiar gets minimal enhancement from Shepherd's features, mechanically speaking. The 3rd level Spirit Totem ability has a bit of potential benefit for the...

Just to help put this in context, can anyone clarify what 4E's Love Domain entailed? Did it involve charm/mind control too? (I never played 4E.) What about 3E? Did 3E have a Love domain? (I don't remember, and seem to recall there being at least a more hedonistic Lust/Pleasure domain, but...

Not all of the domain spells are necessarily problematic. Charm Person, for example. They don't remove the person's free will, or cause them to be "roofied", it just causes them to regard the caster as a friendly acquaintance. Same with Enthrall. It causes the subject to stare at you. No...

As initially written, it's about 50-50 between mutual protection and infatuation/mind control. In addition to the Impulsive Infatuation Channel Divinity, it also has a number of Charm spells as domain spells, including Charm Person, Enthrall, and Hypnotic Pattern, as well as other Mind Control...

Nailed it. Monks seem like middle-of-the-road combatants on paper. But in practice, they're ridiculously fun and flavorful to play, don't feel noticeably underpowered, you almost always have something creative to do, and you're usually the one at the table getting to do the "cool stuff". If...

Not surprising that Beastmaster is topping the poll. Even WOTC halfway acknowledges it as such. However, the Revised Ranger and/or Variant Class Features UAs have done a good job of propping it back up. As for the others, some are certainly the least appealing/interesting subclasses within...

Come to think of it, Love Domain's 1st level Emboldening Bond would also add +d4 to Counterspell rolls (which are ability checks).

There are already spells that do that - the 1st level spell Bless for saving throws and attack rolls and the cantrip Guidance for ability checks. Guidance can be spammed indefinitely out of combat, so this ability really only provides extra help on in-combat ability checks, which are less...

That's because PG-13 wasn't a thing until July 1984. So before that, if it wasn't R, it was PG. Hence why stuff like Airplane (1980) is rated PG but isn't kid-appropriate. Heck, Gremlins snuck in at PG in June 1984, just before the change.

Order isn't a perfect fit, but it's the closest among the official domains. If you're open to semi-official domains, Solidarity from Plane Shift: Amonkhet could also be made to work: https://media.wizards.com/2017/downloads/magic/plane-shift_amonkhet.pdf As could the UA Protection domain...

I foresee a lot of support builds taking 1 level dips into Love Cleric for the hour-long non-Concentration Bless/Guidance combo. (Blessidance?) A Love Cleric 1/Lore Bard X build might even give Life Cleric 1/Lore Bard X a run for its money as the ultimate support build, in everything but pure...

Level 2 Monk, poisoned to death by a Wyvern. The two attacks alone downed him, and then the failed CON save against the poison ended up doing like 3x my Monk's HP in poison damage. Instant Death from Massive Damage. (I don't think the DM had a good grasp of the encounter building/CR...

Also, at Rogue 6 you could/should pick up Athletics Expertise, which combined with your high Strength and Advantage on Strength checks while Raging, makes you a beast at Grappling/Shoving. Grapple + Shove Prone (or Grapple on an already prone enemy) = enemy cannot stand up = automatic Advantage...

Balhannoth 17 Beholder 27 Look me in the EYES when I'm talking to you! Berbalang 23 Chuul 22 Cloaker 20 Death Kiss 15 Elder Brain 23 Flumph 8 Go home, man... You're drunk flumph. Gauth 12 Gazer 16 Gibbering Mouther 22 Mind Flayer 18 Morkoth 18 Neogi 22 Neothelid 22 Nothic 15 Otyugh 26...

D&D initially drew extremely heavily from Tolkienesque fantasy, in which Humans are the most numerous race. Yes, there are frequently non-humans and demihumans, and they often serve as primary protagonists/antagonists, but the world itself as a whole is dominated by the human population. As a...

The UA Elemental Spell metamagic applies to acid, cold, fire, lightning, and thunder. With Thunder being the clear winner in most cases due to the dearth of Thunder resistant/immune enemies. (Especially if that element-focused Sorcerer with Elemental Spell also dipped 2 levels in Tempest...