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Here's some historical leather armor. It's even more like what most players want their leather armor to be like (a leather jacket) than what the D&D rulebooks describe (dungeon punk modified cuir boulli). It's my justification for treating thick leather jackets as leather armor.

There's a simple mechanic from Level Up that I think could totally fix Remarkable Athlete. Instead of that half proficiency bonus thing, just say that you get an expertise die on all Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution checks, regardless of whether or not you're proficient. That way the...

I'm thinking it might work for me to assume staff aren't necessarily on-site positions. So some of the staff for your luxurious estate are your private wine purchasers that travel around and send the best stuff back in your private caravans, etc.

I not sure about that many tables in a luxurious 800 foot dining area (that‘s taking out a little space for restrooms and an entrance area). Could you provide a floor plan? I’m the kind of person who gets out a tape measure to help me visualize a folding boat, and 40’ x 40’ definitely doesn‘t...

There are a few different ways that the arrangements can be visualized, but I think the issue is that as written when you upgrade to luxurious you get a lot more people, and often that isn‘t going to feel very luxurious. I mean if you want rows of servants fanning you and carrying you around on...

Yeah, 20 people for a 45 x 45 room seems pretty crazy packed.

It’s good to keep in mind, but it’s also worth noting that O5e now includes a subclass or two with extra reactions and a class with extra attunement. I don’t think they‘ve given out extra bonus actions or concentration yet.

I think someone mentioned it earlier, but any 1st level character with a flying familiar creates half of these issues, and there have been flying familiars since day 1 of O5e. Given that, it does not seem that aerial reconnaissance is intended to be a challenge in 5e in general. So this...

A funny thing about O5e is that the DMG actually adds some of that functionality back into astral projection, expanding on (one might say contradicting) the material in the PHB. I‘m glad they did that, but you do have to find it in the DMG, they never changed the PHB to include those additional...

I noticed a few things about the monster building guidelines. 1) I ran a couple O5e monsters (giants) through it and their CR's each came out a level higher in Level Up. I'm wondering if there are any general trends in how it converts differently, or if it's just a matter of each monster being...

My assumption is that it's there for players who want to play a signing character (especially if the player is also reliant on a sign language), and want their character to be able to communicate with the party. Sometimes there's going to be that one other player in the group who thinks it is...

I'd rule it that if the defender can't Fall Back, you can't press the attack in the first place. And in other situations where the conditions allow the maneuvers, that are initiated, and then the Attack, movement, or anything else becomes impossible, you just lose the action (or whatever). You...

One of my players has brought up a concern that the warlock spell point progression and conversions looks messy for no apparent reason. I let him know that the conversion of points to effective spell slots follows the O5e DMG spell point variant rules, which is also the same conversion rate that...

Are Level Up spells really nerfed in general, or is it just a small percentage of specific spells? I haven't more than glanced at a few spells, so I want to get a grasp on the actuality of the changes.

Yeah, I noticed some of that too. If partial cover grants a bonus, but full cover neither provides any bonus nor an auto-success…what’s going on?

The funny thing is, even with some part of one of its signature features being free with Pact of the Blade in A5e, O5e Hexblade looks like it's still not a bad option. It was just that much front-load overpowered that you can steal those features and it still works.

Yeah, I hadn't realized this wasn't a resolved issue. Hopefully the revised pdfs will clear it up. There are kind of pros and cons to either interpretation. If you can combine them, you get this crazy high damage. It may be too much, although it does require a good deal of investment to get to...

I'm trying to get a feel for things, and it looks like the at-will damage from a Pact of the Blade, Eldritch Scythe, Polearm Savant Warlock is so high I have a hard time seeing who else is keeping up. This isn't a criticism; I'm just trying to orient myself to the facts. I haven't studied all...

One thing I'm interested in (which can probably be better examined when we've all had time to digest the rules more) is what tweaks can be made to O5e classes to make them more comparable to A5e classes. (For those who wonder why I would care to do so, I'll explain at the end of the post). I...

You know, I suppose an alternate option that also avoids giving free skills, is to just entirely remove the option to take a skill, and then leave the other options flexible. So anyone can use it for a combination of specialties, languages, and tools, but nobody gets a new skill out of it.