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This is what I'm doing with my Forest Gnome ranger (Gnomes: The Other Small Meat... er, Race!). 'Tavi - yum-yum!' *CRUNCH* Dead kobold. :) Of course, some DMs are going to raise a stink when they look at the mounted combat rules, which say that a 'controlled mount' can only Dash, Dodge, or...

If you're a warlock looking for the ad/disad combo, I'd suggest Misty Visions instead of Devil's Sight + Darkness. Misty Visions allows you to cast Silent Image at will. Cast an image of heavy fog - heavy enough to qualify as 'heavily obscured'. You're unseen by anyone who doesn't spend an Int...

Depends a lot on what role he wants to play. Battlefield Control? Misty Visions invocation, make use of the Fey Presence ability, Darkness, Hold Person (scales decently with additional targets at higher slots), Hunger of Hadar, Hypnotic Pattern - lots of choices. Sniper? Misty Visions again to...

For dealing with blasting with EB & solo survivability, consider the Misty Visions invocation instead of the standard Devil's Own Sight/ casting Darkness combo. - Misty Visions allows you to cast Silent Image at will vs. Darkness using up a (very limited) spell slot - you can use Silent Image...

Their names are 'every DM I've met running Adventurer's League games', who MUST (for table-to-table consistency) go by very narrow RAW & not whatever interpretation they might personally favor.

So a character riding a dragon who says 'Hey, let's go attack THAT guy' has now either a) denied the dragon its attack if the dragon does as he suggests, or b) been granted the ability to deny courses of action to the dragon by suggesting them. The more situations that come up with this, the...

I haven't played in a D&D campaign with artillery, but YMMV. That point aside, warhorses are clearly trained for attacking in battle - they get a higher attack bonus for more damage vs. a riding horse, & have a special attack (trampling) which the riding horse lacks. Again, very odd to train...

And by that interpretation, a warhorse is useless - it can never attack. Unless you think warhorses are meant to be thrown out into the battlefield riderless? 'Unleash the dogs... er, horses of war!' ;) Excellent point. I do hope my DM will agree on which is the general & which the specific (I...

[To avoid confusion w/ the long-standing abbreviation for Armor Class, I've used ACo for Animal Companion, unlike in the Ranger thread where AC is used for that as well.] I'm working up a Beastmaster Ranger - I want to see how they actually play vs. the weak appearance they have compared to the...

Hmm, just had a thought. Ranger with Ritual Casting feat. Take Find Familiar. Now have your familiar use the Help action - for free. Now laugh at the absurdity of the situation of going into a subclass that's arguably worse than a single spell (of several) that you gained from a feat. :(

Because smaller things are less likely to still be alive when you go to hit them after they've already been damaged. We had a Colossus Slayer in our group last night for first episode of HotDQ. He didn't get to use the ability once. Not one single use as we blasted through the encounters...

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Nah, he uses a rapier. 'My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!'

XPed, & thanks for the info. Sounds like the Resilient (Constitution) feat will be a constant on all of my characters!

A lot has already been mentioned, but here are things I thought of to add (or missed seeing): - Moving through friendlies counts as difficult terrain. No more just walking right past your allies in combat without it slowing you down. - Firing a ranged weapon or spell into combat does not have...

Fishing for food (as others have mentioned). Possible 'between sessions' use as a profession to maintain a certain standard of living (probably not an especially high one). Could also be use to gather a special spell component, like 'ink sac from the rare blue-ringed octopus - oh, did we mention...

It's Heightened Spell that forces the reroll on save (Empowered allows the caster to reroll damage dice) - and, sadly, it only applies to the first save rolled. Not bad, but not a stunlock either. It also casts 3 sorc points, which is pretty steep at low levels. I've just about talked myself...

1) Twinned Spell. It says you can target a 2nd creature when casting a spell that targets only one creature. Would something like Magic Missile qualify, provided you had used all of the 1st spell's missiles on the same target? If so, would you then have to put all of the twinned one's on the 2nd...

Paladin (Vengeance) with Urchin background. He's out to find (& slaughter) the people who killed his parents. This one doesn't feel too odd to me at all, but Warlock with Sage background. He was flunking out of the Academy, found a forgotten tome in the library one night that seemed to detail a...

My point was that in 3.5 there was the concern 'casters sacrifice too much & gain too little' for the versatility they gained by multiclassing (expanded list of lower level spells, less higher level spells AND higher level slots). It seems everyone accepts that the change to spell slot...