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Yeah, I think this subclass is far less solo-play oriented than a beastmaster, for example, which by its nature often causes more headaches than it solves problems when dealing with companion beasts that get in the way or otherwise cause issues. This is a ranger with a useful set of tricks that...

Great article all around, and hits on a lot of great reasons why the game has seen a resurgence. I think it does miss something crucial, though - as important as the escapism is (both in a traditional sense, and the newly discovered sense of escaping digital isolationism by spending unplugged...

I dunno, that still just doesn't thematically make much sense for me. Why would getting hit with an arrow make you tired, but not hurt? What about something like this: - Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls. - Your ranged weapon attacks ignore...

I think the ten minutes is just fine. Makes ritual casting spammable in situations where there's no time pressure as ten minutes is essentially nothing in terms of a day, but not usable at all in combat and probably not useful in most high-energy situations. For example, in the homebrew campaign...

Here's an idea. It would require more work for the DM but could result in a more meaningful trap-hunting experience for players. For every trap, set a DC. This is the DC for active perception checks. Then, for every trap, also list a modifier determined by who set the trap in the first place...

I don't really understand, mechanically, what is happening there. For counterspell, you're swallowing their magic with magic of your own. What's happening with that feat, you're knocking away their hands from doing somatic components? Or something like that? What if the spell is vocal only? I...

That Sniper Shot version of Sharpshooter still seems absurdly abusable. A few people in a party with that and you could cripple or outright kill any creature in the game in one round.

Hmm...I like the feat and feel like it not only helps give the hard-hitting melee classes a leg up to compete with other builds, but also helps gives sometimes boring builds a bit more to think about tactically as they decide whether or not to turn on the switch per hit. But, being mechanically...

Excellent, thank you! I'll have to check to see if mine has the same functionality.

Wow, talk about a strawman! First of all, I literally said that the players don't owe the DM "much." Of course, being cooperative, showing up on time, refraining from rude or disruptive behavior and doing their best to add to the game experience are important. DMing is really hard, and does take...

On the phone issue, as a player I really need to figure out how to make my phone be quiet except for the game-related things I'm using it for. I ignore all of my notifications and buzzings and whatnot during game sessions, but I use my phone for spellcards as that's quicker and easier than...

In my last session, we had a horde of fungal zombie-like creatures chasing us through a system of mines and caves. Got a ton of use out of Minor Illusion. We crossed a five foot wide, very sturdy wooden bridge, and I cast Minor Illusion on a five foot square of planks behind us to make them look...

Hey, neat. I went to UMBC. If I find myself back in that area, I'll be looking for games. It's the far side of the world for me, for now.

Well sure, I'd find some way for it to make sense RP-wise. I really don't like level dipping when it doesn't really make any narrative sense to do so. As I said there is one more player of an undecided class - right now he's thinking some sort of cleric, possibly the Grave Domain UA cleric...

Hey, thanks for reading. I'm fleshing out a halfling lore bard for what I hope will be a long-running campaign. The world itself is entirely homebrew, with some significant changes to things like languages, pantheons, racial origins, etc. from the PHB. Mechanically, though, we're going straight...

I dunno if it's really fair to weigh saves against one another, even if you start doing things like taking into account effects of failed saves. I think it's also important to see how the six stats influence ability checks and factor that into usefulness as well. So sure, STR saves are common...

My new bard doesn't sing. He has an enchanted Hardanger fiddle gifted to him by a creature of the Feywild that he can't quite remember. When he plays tunes on the four top strings, the five sympathetic strings below resonate with magic, and depending how he plays can either twist the strings of...

I honestly just don't think D&D is very translatable into a video game context, unless it's a campaign book type of thing, and even then it will be limited. The beauty of actual D&D is being able to say or do anything, and have my actions be refereed by a real human being running the game. It's...

I just don't see what builds people would ever use with that. Giving up another 1 AC (sometimes 2) to be able to choose to do 1d4 only in melee sometimes seems like a really bad tradeoff.

That main gauche is just a shield with only +1 AC.