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In 4E I made it up to maybe 15th level; I DM'd one level 9 5E game where 4/5 PCs had at-will flight and ACs in the low-to-mid 20s, so most monsters were useless. I found telling stories to be pretty frustrating. As for high-level monsters, it's pretty clear you want to design some negation...

Druids (unlike monks and rogues) have practically nothing to use their bonus action on; this would be equivalent to having it always available.

I'm running Curse of Strahd and the 1h short rest has been a problem, not because of power recharging but because of self-healing. We've had on-again off-again healers, and as a result, my party gets into a lot of situations where they know if they don't rest they will die in the next room, but...

I understand this, and it's why I designed it the way I did. The idea is that you can kill a man with a longbow from 600ft away with a long, arching shot, but olympic archers with way fancier bow technology only compete at 70M; to me that implies there's a much shorter distance beyond which...

I totally agree with this premise, although I don't think the implementation is perfect. I don't want to overpunish players that want to play Legolas-type characters. Instead, I'd want to encourage them to play like Legolas does: up close and personal. For example, only add dex to damage when...

I left out the crit part for brevity; the str bonus is doubled on crits, allowing crits to scale the same way damage dice do. I updated the original post to include that.

I was just messing around with this mechanic, and my solution was this: Longbow: 1d4 + str modifier + dex modifier damage; on a crit, add double your strength modifier instead. I feel like this adequately represents what draw power gives you: a weaker PC would be able to use the bow, but not...

I'm not a fan of any of these, really. Circle of Dreams: The feywild one is the most neat; it also feels like it's heavily influenced by WoW's Emerald Dream. The level 6 feature seems incredibly weak and narrative-breaking, but the level 14 one seems super fun. I'm not sure it addresses the...

Some things I want: * A fighter that's rewarded for Charisma and/or Intelligence * A fighter that emphasizes the difference between weapon types

morepurplemorebetter Regarding the last bug with tiefling -- I don't know if you're interested, but when I was trying my hand at coding up some of the Volo's races, I wired up a set-up that uses webpack and babel to compile the code from modules. It could also allow you to write unit tests and...

The problem is that fury of blows and stunning strike are such good as a uses of ki that most of the four elemental disciplines don't match them in power.

Note: "it worked like this in 3rd edition" is not a valid justification for anything in 5th edition. Editions do not rely on each other and often evolve concepts and conflict with each other. Also, if you watch a lot of action movies it's a pretty common tactic for characters to use kicks...

Part of the balancing of feats is that they're generally not available before level 4. Just looking through the DM Basic rules, there's a bunch of monsters above CR 0 that do 4 or less damage per attack: Acolyte, Bandit (in melee), Blink Dog, Blood Hawk, Boar, Camel, Cockatrice, Cultist...

I think the problem with bounded accuracy is that it's not actually bounded. Monster ACs range from 9 to 25 and PCs can easily push 20+ halfway through their career. IMO they should be actually bounded, with AC caps at 20 and attack bonus caps around +7. Stop the AC/Attack bonus arms race.

I repeat my question: what rules text is this based on?

I could see conjure animals being good in some circumstances, but it's highly dependent on your DM being gracious. There's nothing preventing the DM from ruling 8 CR 1/4 or lower creatures are all CR zero because the spell is annoying, and like Zardnaar said, they're also vulnerable to AoE and...

I think Wizards screwed up giving clerics heavy armor, personally. I think heavy armor makes them too complete. Cleric doesn't really have downsides, other than perhaps lacking extra attack. Also, some of their low-level spells are insane: bless, spiritual weapon, spirit guardians​ are all...

I saw that article completely differently. I feel like it was about them being less afraid of overcomplicating, not of balance. One could argue there was a greater attempt to balance, given the very limited set of allowed companions. My guess is that when they designed the BM ranger, they didn't...

While it wasn't a AAA title, the flash-based D&D Facebook game was a pretty decent adaptation of 4E rules, and was pretty fun despite falling into the free-to-play/pay-to-win trap that a lot of games of that time did.

Building a video game (well, building anything really) is a long, hard complex process that requires a lot of passion, experience and money. If your attitude is in terms of "brand-holder and the extraneous crap" (worst Harry Potter spinoff title ever, btw), then you're going to lack the...