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We have a bard and a sorcerer in our party and I noticed the same thing at lower levels. The offset is that the sorcerer has more cantrips than the bard, with the total of spells known and cantrips being equal at lower levels. This changes with magical secrets, but I saw it as being part of the...

I'll also support lore bard as a strong option. I'm currently playing a lore bard in a party that includes a sorcerer. The problem with both classes is the lack of spells known, which is worse for the sorcerer. That means that the sorcerer has to concentrate on mainly damage dealing spells, and...

20) (To a commoner, speaking loudly). You're under arrest. I'm Captain Smeagol of the Secret Police. I saw you hide that jewel in your pocket, and I'm taking you in before you get a chance to dispose of it (try to play it up to make the victim run away, drawing suspicion with them).

Con save to maintain concentration is driven by damage, not hitpoints. Losing temporary hitpoints is taking damage, so the concentration check is still required. The temporary hitpoints don't count towards things like sleep spells, however, as the text clearly states that they are not hitpoints...

Cantrips are a spellcasters core non-resource-limited tool. Weapons are a martial characters core non-resource-limited tool. That was the point I was trying to make. Yes, spellcasters can use weapons, and many martial characters can use spells -- neither do so as their primary focus. Restricting...

Unfortunately, to make that effective, you'll also need to play with the spell focus rule. That is, unless there's a cost listed against the component, you can use your spell focus (arcane focus, holy symbol, etc) instead of a material component. Also, for the vast majority of spells, spell...

What's wrong with using Detect Magic to find the Glyphs? After all, they're still magical, even if they're difficult to find by non-magical investigation. Why do you need a Read Magic spell to find them? If you're wondering how do characters decipher them after finding them, that's a different...

Tracers are a lot more frequent than every six seconds. You can use a strobe light for illumination, but it's not effective if its only strobing every six seconds. You need to increase the rate before it's useful. It's the every six seconds that's the problem with using fire bolt for...

The fact that the cantrip doesn't state it provides illumination? I suppose you could use it as strobe effect, with one flash every six seconds, but I pity all the characters acting on a different initiative to the caster because they'll still be in the dark when it comes to their turn...

But that's not taking into account that casters only have a limited number of cantrips. They can't cast any cantrip any number of times. They can only cast a selected subset of cantrips any number of times. And, of course, it's the cantrip you don't have that would be most useful in any given...

You should also consider class balance. Sorcerers, for example, get fewer spells, but more cantrips when compared to Bards. Part of the class concept seems to be implicitly that they'll make heavier use of cantrips and so they have more cantrip options. Restricting the use of cantrips therefore...

The feat doesn't say that. As CapnZapp said, he started a thread a few weeks ago on the subject and the consensus was that the feat can be used as often as desired -- it's the recipient that is limited to once per short rest, not the user. I said in that thread that one way of looking at the...

If you're blinded, you can't see, which means you can't use Misty Step.

Warlock spell slots are not standard spell slots. That's why the multiclassing section has special rules for how the two interact. I took the term "spell points" to mean "pact magic slots", which are distinct to standard spell slots used by other magic-using classes.

As a player who is irregular due to work commitments (it's hard to make a session when you're not in the same country, let alone the same state), we've played it both ways. A lot depends on the campaign. If the campaign requires the party to be roughly the same level, I'll level up with the...

This. There are other game mechanics where numbers can be modified after the roll has been made but before the result is announced. Why not apply that to Shield, too? Hiding rolls from the players nerfs some abilities, so if a DM wants to keep rolls secret, they should tell the players before...

6d8 + 2d6 + 1d4 + 4 Wasn't that obvious?

The constraint on the bard is that they only have a limited number of spells. The Wizard has a lot more available, as has been pointed out. The lore bard can pick any two 3rd spells (not three) at 6th level, but it's only two. There are a lot more good 3rd level spells out there...and there will...

I wouldn't say that the spell will cause misunderstandings on a regular basis, but I would suggest that it's open to misunderstandings. One example I was thinking of was in respect to the written copy of a prophecy. Prophecies are, by their nature, prone to misinterpretation. There are a lot of...

But how far do you take that? To allow the spell to do more than a literal translation implies it's a mind-reading spell because you can't get the 'literal meaning' if you don't know what the person intends to say, or what the original author of a document intended? I'm happy with the spell...