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This one. Although, I guess you won't stay at level 1 for long.

The damage element is new. That's nice! It should address some of the concerns over low saves at high levels, at least if the creature paralyzed by a hold person has an ally who can beat on the wizard.

On travel distances, I think they're just working from historical records of travel distances by pre-modern military units… or rather, from earlier editions of D&D which were based on those since the days of their wargaming roots. Given that in D&D we're talking about smaller groups, what you...

Now, come on, she'd only be able to reach a 17-foot-high ledge (3 + STR mod (5) + 6 + 0.5*6). Because reaching 19 feet high would be preposterous.

On 4/36 of the damage rolls, you'd replace the combined roll with another that averaged 7 points. On 16/36 of the rolls (1 or 2 on one die, 3-6 on the other), you'd have an average of 6 points (1.5+4.5). And on the remaining 16/36 of the rolls (3-6 on both dice), you'd have an average of 9...

Yeah, it seems kinda weak and fiddly now. That's a good point. I was focused on how bad this was for greataxe-wielders, but it's pretty lame even for greatsword/maul-wielders. An average increase of 1 1/3 point of damage on a roll of 2d6 (which is the best case scenario for this ability)...

You don't need to simulate; it's easy enough to calculate deterministic averages. On 2d6, rolling a 1 or 2 on either die results in a replacement roll that averages 3.5. So the average damage per die is (3.5 + 3.5 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6)/6 = 4 1/6. Average on 2d6 is 8 1/3 (matching your prediction)...

After more time to think, this is going to make two-weapon fighters start falling behind two-handers pretty significantly starting at 5th level. While two-weapon fighting was potentially a little too good before (when used with the Fighting Style), now it's quite a bit worse damage-wise...

As was hinted, the second attack when two-weapon fighting takes a bonus action. That means a fighter with Extra Attack using Action Surge gets only 5 attacks (4 normal + 1 extra), not up to 8 (4 normal + 4 extra, depending on interpretation). Not sure how I feel about that yet.

It's limited by the fact that you only get one reaction per round.

Perfect. Awesome! Very cool. Looking good so far!

It's the same as in the playtest, but the "bonus action" terminology is new. Note that, in the playtest, healing word has a casting time of Swift.

Correctamundo! Why can't I XP you twice?!

That deserves to become an official community term!

I don't see where people are seeing facial hair on the subject; the resolution is poor, but the sheen on the cheeks and chin seems to preclude it. Based on the build, this looks like a woman to me; a badass black woman on the first page of the Player's Handbook! Besides being a fine piece of art...

Yeah, I get that, but it really robs a lot of value from ritual spells. If detect magic has to compete with other spells for prepared slots, a cleric is going to be hard-pressed to take it; although, with the greater number of prepared spells now (caster level + Wis mod), not as much as during...

To avoid download problems, Wizards could use a CDN to avoid most of the load on their own servers. I don't know if they've contracted with a CDN, but if they haven't, they should consider it for times like this.

Huh, I didn't notice that restriction before. If it's still in the final rules, I believe I'll be house-ruling it out.

If you want casters to have unlimited use of detect magic, you don't need to make it a cantrip. In the playtest at least, and hopefully in the final rules, detect magic can be cast as a ritual, so it doesn't need to be prepared. That means you don't need to spend a precious cantrip slot just to...

Yeah, that seems like too much, especially to a fighting style that's already a good choice.