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A handful that I'd put together. Apprentice Craftsman Ability Scores: Strength, Constitution, Charisma Feat: Crafter Skills: Athletics, Insight Tool Proficiency: Any artisan tool You trained as an apprentice craftsman. That meant you did a lot of the grunt work to prepare you to learn the more...

Eh, I'm not sure. Casting a spell using a magic item uses a charge from the magic item rather than expending a spell slot. Using a magic item is listed as one of the ways of casting a spell without using spell slots (p235-236 PHB). But nothing suggests that anything else about casting a spell...

Minor quibble: You only need to have the spell prepared if you're creating an item that can be used to cast the spell. (see: 5:30 in Pack Tactics' video) If the item isn't being used to cast spells, then you only need Arcana and the tool proficiency.

According to the table Pack Tactics showed, no. It will take 250 days of crafting (or 2000 hours). The days per value ratio goes up with item rarity, making the crafting process viable even with exploding prices. For Common items, it's the same 10-to-1 as non-magical items (ie: takes 5 days to...

All "Ranged Weapon"s are "Range Weapon"s. Not all "Range Weapon"s are "Ranged Weapon"s. And a side thought based on some other posts: Part of me is thinking that the idea that these pages were built by people is itself an incorrect assumption. For a content delivery system like this, I'd first...

They said that they put prices in the previous DMG, but the new one makes it easier to find, so my first thought is that it's still based on rarity. Also, from the pictures they showed during the video, the individual magic item entries do not appear to have individual prices. They list the...

Looks like the list of special facilities is identical to the playtest. What few details they gave about the facilities implied not much, if anything, has changed from the playtest. That's rather disappointing. While I like the broad concept of the Bastion system, I'm kinda inclined to rebuild it.

There has been a default assumption about how Nick works that I think might not be true. If it is not, it opens up some interesting new approaches to dual wielding. First, the Nick rule, plus the Vex rule for a point of contrast: A default assumption on the use of Nick is that it has to be...

A minor detail on attack ordering that I didn't have in my original post: The Light weapon rules do not mention attacking with the offhand weapon. I think this is deliberate. @UngeheuerLich already mentioned one use case that this helps with (getting Vex on the final attack), but I want to...

So, I was thinking of the new Twin Spell metamagic for its upcast effect. In particular, I was considering how high you'd have to upcast Longstrider in order to affect everyone in the party, and remembering that Twin Spell can handle one of those levels. Then I wondered about applying it...

You're conflating the mechanical in-game movement speed (which is mostly the same between characters) and real-life movement speed (which is highly variable, and quite unlikely to be the same). I was just watching a review of a basketball game today, and in one play where the team got a...

Actually, that's a nice basis. Proposal: Make Great Weapon Fighting about being great with weapons in general, rather than specializing in two-handed weapons. Just make it so that GWF applies to all weapons. Leave the mechanics as they currently are. Mathematically it's not great, but it shows...

Eh, what? Hiding gives you the Invisible condition, it doesn't make you invisible (transparent). Basically, hiding means you are no longer seen. You are not visible. You are in-visible. Characters gain mechanical benefits when they are not seen. The Invisible condition enumerates those...

On the See Invisible spells, I don't think it's quite that bad. See Invisible allows you to see someone with the Invisible condition, but it doesn't allow you to see through solid objects. So it's like, you could see the hiding person with See Invisible, but only if you could actually see the...

Updated spreadsheet here Since the last edit I added in my earlier post: Added Sentinel and PAM reaction attacks. Added GWM bonus action attacks. Fixed GWM proficiency bonus damage. Should not apply to reaction attacks or bonus action attacks. Added percentage scaling for GWM bonus action...

Eh, it's OK. That's a bit of a cascade of references. The bottom damage section refers to the Use Accuracy section. The Use Accuracy section either uses Advantage flat out if you have advantage set at the top, or the Study Accuracy section which incorporates Studied Attacks. Studied Attacks...

This was calculated in the Vex section, which has different accuracy/crit totals for main attack, PAM attack, light weapon bonus attack, martial arts attack, and ranged attack. In the case of TWF with one Vex weapon, it influences the degree to which the offhand weapon gets the advantage bonus...

I think Spellcasting might have more value for ½ or ⅓ casters. For full casters, that's just your pool of common utility spells, not your real power spells, so whether you get an extra slot or two back each day barely matters. For ½ casters, that covers most of their casting, and for ⅓ casters...

I broadly agree. My particular post was to debunk the idea that the monk dip completely blew away the other damage options, but my real preference is to have a solid baseline to work from, not max damage. Basically, how good do you have to be to not be a drain in combat? Yes, that's going to...

Not sure what Hew is? Oh wait, that's the bonus attack from GWM. Yeah, I don't have that figured in yet. As for Sentinel, I actually just added that a short bit ago. Hadn't noted it in the above post yet. I'm currently defaulting it to the same 20% as the PAM reaction. It's a small bit of extra...