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The most gamey part of D&D has always been the in universe durability of things required to make it work. A 300 pound Fighter in Plate has no business surviving straight hits from a 5 ton Dragon. But a 5 ton Dragon probably doesn't like a Ballista into the vitals or a Disintegrate to the face...

There's only a problem with a 5 Full Caster Party if you let it be one. Pretty sure I can build a more annoying party than 5 clerics from a DM perspective, being lazy - 4 War Wizards ending every encounter before the other side gets a turn and a Divine Soul Sorcerer to add some healing. And I...

Agreed on the premise, I'm the first guy in favor of a more gritty and deadly campaign. Mathematically speaking there is no difference between rolling a Skill Check at +7 vs DC12 and then slapping on a -5 to make it harder vs the same Skill check against DC17 without the penalty. People just...

This. There's exactly one problem that seems to be the reason to swing the nerfbat at Divine Casters and its not Lesser Restoration, it's Turn Undead. Otherwise you'd also have to ban Bards and Druids. Lesser Restoration and Lay on Hand not curing Worms is a simple matter, there's no Rulebook...

Between this and Solasta: Crown of the Magister we're bound to get at least 1 decent game, right? For me personally turn based with 5E rules is both a massive improvement over DOS split armor system (never got quite over how much I hated that an optimized party is focused on targeting the same...

Wouldn't the usual opponents being undead already cancel out with the Cleric ending up to spend a lot of his resources on dealing with the worms? The one thing I'd adjust is turn Undead. Honestly just take it away from Clerics or make it not work on Undead created by worms. It's one of the...

This is widely known under the terms "cherry picking" or "out of context" just in case you didn't intend to appear like that came across. "Hey my friend wanted a low WIS low INT caster" just makes me scratch my head more about how your friend has value as an example. Dismissing the Sorcerer's...

What's the point of taking that one sentence out of contect and ignore the rest as well as 6 pages of this thread disagreeing with Cleric Spells being the strongest thing even a Divine Soul has to offer? Oh well Extra choices for thematic spells should be part of the Sorcerer Subclasses, pretty...

Count me baffled about the claims that CON as a casting stat would be neglible and totally fine. Monstrous CON saves by level 4 or 8 over most other casters (+7/8 vs +2/3 or +4/5 with Resilience Con), more average HP than the average CON14 D10 Hitdie class or CON16 D8 Hitdie class. If that isn't...

80% of this list with a twist. Reclassify into two tiers: Full Feat and Semi Feat. Feats classified as Full Feats work exactly the same as Feats work now and can only be picked up replacing an ASI. (Note: Powerful 5E Half Feats like Elven Accuracy will keep their +1 ASI and get classified as...

Or you can always just DM and homebrew that gritty campaign you always wanted with some people rolling up a new PC every two sessions if it gets too bad. 🤷‍♂️ If I'm ever fed up enough I'll take the time to redesign the Skill System so it's something like 75% unrelated to your main stats or...

In all fairness 5E fairs pretty well but has shown a few problems that could be ironed out by introducing an official alternative ruleset. Basically just a collection of Alternative Rules. I explicitly don't want to touch the current 5E rules, rather build upon them and expand The Class Variant...

Since every buff Spell "does damage" when cast by an Order Cleric (by triggering a Reaction), non Concentration Buffs like Warding Bond and Aid turn into pretty effective use of your action. With the Sorcerer opening up Twin, Quicken or Extend for more efficient use of Spellslots. Regarding...

Rather than derailing another thread, here's something I pieced together when looking for a couple answers to some questions that weren't related at the time. Can I play a dedicated Healer/Mitigator that can outperform adding yet another DPS character to the party? Notably not a controller by...

TLDR delay Sorcerer Progression in favour of adding increased single target DPR? Not gonna lie this looks a lot less interesting than a Divine Soul "God Sorcerer". With Order Cleric Dip to get more Cantrips, Lvl1 Spells, Armor Proficiency and extra Reaction Attack for an ally when you're buffing.

So it's gonna have a Dungeon and some Dragons, right? Can't explain to the average person how that's the name of the Universe and not descriptive to the movie. Not a complaint, just looking at how Larian pulled the Githyanki Dragonriders from another plane into Baldurs Gate 3, so they could...

Rechecking the PDF I was referring to it's the D&D Basic Rules, referred to as "Player's Basic Rules" top of Page 1 in the PDF whoops. The current version I found is way better than the old one I had been torturing myself with though, consider that complaint fixed then.

Didn't buy any for myself, but gifted like 3 of them to our friend who usually DMs, since the guy has a family and kids.... and was about to manually enter every statblock for his campaign instead. Just giving Roll20 the money for Monstermanual, Xanathar, Volo and Mordekainen seemed more...

For reading background, physical all the way. For convenience PDF is usually great, because it has everything in it on one place and allows CRTL+F as well as copy pasting rules during games regardless if you're logged into the account on your tablet, remember your credentials or not. I can see...

Speaking as a player who is pretty up to date on everything the books contain, reskinning helps getting the tension back. On the metagaming level I know a young Red Dragon is CR10 but sucks at DEX and WIS saves, pretty sure 3-4 buddies and I can take one at level 5. Even when playing an...