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I'm going with Lore Bard for now. I went Human and picked up Magic Initiate for two of the SCAG cantrips(GFB and BB) and Shield so I can actually do some decent damage while also having great utility. If it ends up not being as fun or as good as I hope then I'll switch up to ranged cantrips or...

I think 5e is doing well. I only really play it once a week at AL(so I have a reason to leave the house) and otherwise stick to 4e or 13th Age because 5e feels like it's always just missing that one thing that keeps my interest. Mostly it's not crunchy enough for me. It's still overall a good...

I love bounded accuracy. I hate classes that have a dominant strategy that often involves spamming basic attacks or one specific cantrip(e.g. Eldritch Blast for Warlocks). I like classes that have multiple at-will options that you get to decide between on a round-by-round basis(e.g. Wizard...

I think without a major change in RPGs do things, that they are going to get hurt badly in the future. Look at how we get people into RPGs in the first place as one example. People get into RPGs most of the time from someone else who is already into RPGs. It's like some kind of weird...

IMO what 5e got wrong: 1) Nerfed in-combat options for a lot of classes. I enjoy playing classes that have a variety of in-combat options and don't often end up with one dominant strategy. In 4e, I made a character based on concept and felt I could enjoy pretty much any class because they all...

All of this is in my opinion, but levels 1 and 2 are boooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrriiiiinnnnnng. Some classes start getting eh alright at 3 and 4. Classes really start coming into their own around level 6 and 7. I haven't played much beyond that in 5e because either the next season starts or...

The first two paragraphs are similar to how I am. If I'm not engaged by the mechanics(which generally means combat) then either the DM or the people I'm playing with better be absolutely positively amazing to be around because otherwise I zone out, get bored, covertly find something else to do...

I fan-girled out when I went through all my stuff before moving and found so much 4e stuff that I bought a long time ago and saved for a rainy day. I have enough adventures/tiles/DM books to probably run an entire campaign's worth of adventures without having to do too much myself. :P

5e combat is a lot better and more interesting if you stick to playing a caster.

I'm not against multiclassing inherently. It's just that so many MC combos either push off major class features for too long, get lagged behind in spell slots, seem like a mish mash of classes for no real rhyme or reason, or are one trick ponies that are done more for theorycrafting purposes...

Doesn't that tank a lot of the spells from their spell list though and hurt their aura at higher levels? I've been burned really really hard by reflavoring. I was burned so badly by it that I almost quit AL entirely. It's not just between me and my DM. It's between me and every single DM who...

Sorry everyone for not responding back sooner. I had spotty internet for a while and have been packing up to go back to East Lansing from the middle-of-nowhere, Michigan. So far I'm playing a Drow Lore Bard, but I might still experiment and change it up. I might consider something more...

It means that spellcaster is using their reaction not to cast Shield. It's a trade off. Does the Warlock have ranged party members who can bait out the Shield spell so the caster can't Counterspell? Or does the Warlock have ranged party members who can go ham on the spellcaster after they use...

I'm worried about having that single damaging cantrip for so many levels. I'm tempted to either go variant Human for the necessary evil of Magic Initiate or take Magic Initiate at 4th level if I'm a non-Human.

I'm a long time 5e player and I'm having a bit of a block in picking my class to take past level 4 in Adventurers League. My last two characters were a level 7 Human Land Druid in HotDQ and then a level 7 High Elf Necromancer in PotA. I've been bouncing between classes and I'm currently a level...

Oh by the way, I had a question about the three major arcane classes. Is there a good fluff basis for including wild magic type Sorcerers? I was planning on having the only subclass of Sorcerers be the Favored Souls from UA(due to the bloodlines and all) but if the fluff allowed for wild magic...

Thank you. I'll have to check those out.

What's the big thing that prevents us? Is it lack of access to the domain rules? Those seemed pretty system agnostic. I started work on translating a lot of the bloodlines, but some of the translations are very flawed in that they are still 2e-ey in feel or are trying to find ways to shoehorn...

Agreed. I agree that I don't see Monks happening. Warlock, for me, is in this weird place. There are plenty of examples where reasonable examples of patrons exist within the world. The problem seems to me that unlike regular D&D worlds, these patrons are much more likely to be a day's travel...

I'm not sure. Which parts are caused BY the wonky parts of 2e and which parts are there DESPITE 2e. I mean I think we could probably assume Gnomes flat out aren't a thing for Birthright since Gnomes were core 2e and then taken out for Birthright, but would they have had Dwarves still restricted...