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The fact is simple: one can boost his damage by increasing the swings or by stacking fixed bonuses. TWF can increase its swings by exploiting a BA to deal one extra attack but loses terrain to the other styles because, simply put, since the quantity of swings of an action is the same for all the...

ehm nope. when you roll a 1 or a two you can reroll BUT you must keep the second value. This means that you must also average the 1 and the 2 with the die's average. 1d4 becomes ((1+2.5)/2+(2+2.5)/2+3+4)/4 1d6 becomes ((1+3.5)/2+(2+3.5)/2+3+4+5+6)/6 1d8 becomes...

I can agree with you to a certain extent. Let me elaborate. At levels 1-3 you don't have chances to exploit bonus attacks unless you can put your hands on a feat and use a particular fighting style. 2handers (2d6) + gwf averages 2*3.833 damage without BA, there is no BA available reach...

it's a distinction made between the light crossbow, which is a simple weapon, and the heavy crossbow, which is a martial weapon. The difference between them is just about that (die and range are distinctive of the weapon type, not its name) they are flagged as light because they're "small and...

TWF sacrifices impact in order to get extra versatility (extra ac, extra chances to proc a crit, etc) GWF sacrifices versatility in order to slap as hard as you can, but unless you can benefit of advantage or you overmatch opponent's ac with your hit ratio, you'll end up performing poorly. a...

The two tools a party should never go on without are Thieves' Tools and Healing Kits, with a mention of honour of Herbalism Kit. Thieves Tools are the only tools you can use to get your proficiency bonus to defuse/disable a trap (without all the other issues you'd incur when you'd attempt to do...

The really juicy thing I wanted to argue about is the presence of that spell slot that allowed my paladin to dish an extra DS instead of goodberries! the point is: while on downtime - you use all your spell slots to stack berries while on adventures - you use your spell slots as you see fit...

Well I can agree with you up to a certain extent. Our DM is a heartless bastard and we learned the hard way that we had to investigate and recon the premises prior to an engagement, even if you had no intel whatsoever when the quest giver asked you to go and raid the evil fortress :) If your...

you're not wrong when you say it's a formidable adversary. It's an effective "end level boss" for lowbie parties if you ask me :D I'd put it in the random encounter list? hell no, unless it was an astral plane flavoured adventure (giths, illithids, and love) The main issue at hand, going back...

op? for a level 13 cleric and whom I expect him to be travelling together with? at level 13, a CR 2 creature is not a threat. Perhaps that cleric was just unfortunate... he failed a DC12 INT ST and then the DM rolled 3d6 (10.5 avg) and beaten his INT score.

Spartans and Grecian Oplites would beg to differ :v well they were using spears, which are just tipped staves and perhaps quarterstaffs are unbalanced to the point that they weigh more on the ends to exploit kinetic force, but nothing prevents you to use the tip of the staff to "cave in"...

Mind you that nobody else is complaining but me :D Noone called for shenanigans or cruelty toward players! The sorcerer and monk are fine with the pace, and I'm assuming they do because there is a poor bastard druid that gets all the hatred, that's why xD We all agreed he'd roll for random...

You could "make it up" to be like "you can cast but have to make a DC5 INT to speak proper, the enhance ability then gives him ADV (or a +5 on a check) and unless he rolls terribly, he should be able to do it :) OR This is actually a really nice idea! Unless they're in the middle of something...

so you can FEEL my pain! I honestly think a druid can't keep up with this as a first liner, perhaps a warrior or a paladin, but certainly not a druid that relies on shapes to pull her weight... what he doesn't realize is that by placing random encounters checks hourly, there is a very good...

If someone can buff his INT (enhance ability) above 3, he could cast the spell himself, provided he can prepare it :) the INT limitation is that he can't speak proper, thus can't cast the spell, otherwise should be just fine. how to roleplay this is up to them, of course :v

oops, you're right :D forgot to do my homeworks there ^^' why not? can't you strike with the pommel of a 1handed weapon? yes you can, so why shouldn't you be able to do so with a 1handed quarterstaff? Pommel striking with any other 1hander is treated as an improvised weapon, which deals 1d4...

I think it's up to debate with your DM if you can take more than one instance of this feat, that's why they didn't specify that you can, as they did for elemental adept, nor they prevented you to do so by specifying you couldn't. This is mostly a DM overruling. You could also deny it "because...

yep multiattack is an Action, not a "melee attack" :) Mind you, though, that if you have the means to double your actions (e.g Fighter's Action Surge) you *are* able to redo a multiattack! You threat it as if it was in the same list of possible things to do in a regular Action frame (e.g...

you made a strong case, especially with the racial spell casting. thanks :) Why do you say it wasn't meant to be internally consistent? :eek: Yes i'm about to reroll paladin since we need a first liner able to heal because we don't have a proper first liner nor a proper healer... fellas wanted...