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Eh, we could also go the other direction and give higher starting stats to players.

I genuinely cannot wait to playtest this new version of monk. More than any of the concrete-numbers buffs. What I wanted more was ways to buff them that fit their playstyle. And I feel like these buffs preserved the round-to-round, combat-to-combat decision-making that made monks the most...

I'm pretty ambivalent. My players and I never really abused them before and I think they're neat now, but it didn't personally affect me so I was concerned either way.

Does this mean that UA 8 monks with UA 6 Elements subclass can have free 50ft flight the entire time? Like passively just flying the entire time, only needing a bonus action to stay airborne for 10 minutes at a time? Because my DM will be seeing Zaheer-like energy from my next monk if so. I...

At 21 AC (effectively), they then can deflect whatever attacks do go through and with Uncanny Metabolism, its essentially having a d10 HD since you're getting an extra 1HP per monk level plus a little extra. If you're a hand monk, you can restore even more HP at level 6. And your AC still...

Let's not forget monks can easily do decent damage while dodging, making them theoretically even tankier. Also, for those that wanted to be a kunai-type ninja monk, you can do something like attack three times with your flurry, move a significant distance away, throw two kunai (daggers) that...

Did something happen to the monk and druid threads? I can't access them it seems.

Its important to remind people that fighters already do great damage comparatively, though. There's a lot of times where people will argue that "Wizards do more damage than fighters" and outside of a few key areas of obvious oversight from the developers, that's just not true. Its always...

With comparisons to AC, HP, and DPR between builds being a fairly high source of contention when talking about balance, I feel like the community is split between what they want from Asymmetric Balance vs Symmetric Balance. Edit: Fingers slipped to upload prematurely. Asymmetric Balance is...

potato sorcerer using his magic to summon french fries from his hands to attack an enemy celery cleric, 3D artstyle

It always sound like, to me, people don't care what martials can do. All they care about is being able to do something that casters cannot, or at a power that casters cannot replicate, which will always be a futile effort so long as "casters" can be pretty much any fantasy type in the game...

When we analyze classes and compare them to one another, we often make assumptions because we can't mathematically model everything to the minute detail. For small, isolated features, I think there's potential for sloppy assumptions, but when we make sweeping generalizations based on multiple...

Sounds like excellent opportunity to give the spell flavor! Maybe your player could do one of those memes where the wizard casts "Medical Complication" on an enemy casting a spell.

Sounds interactive, tense, and fun. A lot better than "Enemy did nothing for third turn in a row."

I think its fairly clear you target the creature and affecting the creature when counterspelling. There isn't an effect to target while the target is casting the spell.

Its still a 5-6' human fighting a 20-30' dragon.

Unless I missed what level-ups do to your height, a human fighter can easily compete with an ogre after a certain level.

Probably to get grognards to explode

For GoI, yes. For Rakshasa's, no. For all intents and purposes, a 6th-level counterspell is still a 6th-level spell. GoI specifically says that upcast spells are still not able to penetrate them if their original level was below the level GoI was used to cast. Technically, a 9th-level GoI...