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Multiclass #1: Ranger (hunter) 5 / Rogue (assassin) 5 : most of the ranger features post level 5 are also rogue features. If you start taking rogue levels you just get them faster. I know there are a few subtle differences in some of the comparisons, but 5 levels of rogue is just better than...

I have enough trouble eating ginger bread men. Kinda creepy to be eating food that moves too :)

I've always been fond of the Arduin runeweaver. As I recall, they would take 10 times as long to cast a spell, but would gain 10 times the duration. Maybe some kind of extend spell metamagic like feature for level 10?

Here's my take on it. I think of the ethereal plane as the firmament that connects energy and elementals to the Material plane. It would be more like energetic memory than imagination. Like what you would see with Kirlian photography. I would think that a city that existed on both the prime...

You could have another coin type below copper, but it is really unnecessary. Only a few items and services are listed as copper in PH (gold standard) and they are easily adjusted by giving multiples for a copper (eg 1 candle = 1cp in RAW, so 10 candles for 1 cp on the silver standard, same with...

I haven't found that the silver standard is difficult to implement at all. By silver standard I mean (1 pp =>1 gp) (1 gp => 1 sp) (1sp => 1cp) for both treasure and costs. If I'm using an gold standard written adventure I just say gold when it says platinum, silver when it says gold and...

Friendship ala Freddie the Flute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJhthxRiR94

Silver standard all the way. 1) Makes holy water (only uses 25sp worth of silver dust instead of 250 sp worth) more believable. 1b) Makes silver swords more believable (something <100sp worth of silver rather than 1000sp) 2) Don't have to ignore encumbrance rules when someone is carrying...

hmmm maybe twinned spell even better for the double heal and haste. anyway you'll know by level 5 whether 2x healing is more important than the extra distance.

I'd go Healer Feat then Pal2/sorc3. That way you'll get healing right way and get your metamagic as quick as possible for quick cast and distant spell cures. You can still keep your booming/greenflame blade fantasy. With quick casting that can still give you 2 attacks per round at level 5...

I'm a gritty realism fan, so I love this thread. Here are a few things I do.. When I pull cookies out of the oven with my oven mitt. I don't take any damage...so flat damage resistance rather than 1/2 damage. I have a lot of RL experience with armor and fighting. So I do armor as damage...

Dragonborn with a tail looks like Lizardfolk. Maybe designers wanted to be able to have visual difference between these two. Do you have any evidence for designer motive?

I was mostly hoping to try to get a better understanding of what the sharpshooter numbers represent, and wondering if someone had a cool way of thinking about it that I hadn't considered. I would certainly like D&D combat and all aspects of the game to make more sense. The introduction of...

@Hemlock... So what you're suggesting is that I should think of sharpshooter in a binary way like D&D Spelljammer gravity. For example a 10 dexterity sharpshooter takes a wild shot simulating that he only has a 1 dexterity (-5 to hit). If he still hits then he gets to add damage as if he had a...

I'm not sure I know what binary gravity is. I tried to do a search for it, but you seemed to be the only one using that phrase. The only physics reference I could find seemed to suggest that binary gravity and mass proportional gravity were the same thing.

So these ideas that shooting for a head shot represents a smaller target area might make sense if the sharpshooter didn't have this other ability:Your ranged weapon attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover. So if the person is standing behind a wall with just his head is showing...

That's too bad. I like narrative

Does anyone have a good explanation of sharpshooter math (-5/+10). I understand the idea that the extra damage is due to the more difficult shot hitting a more vulnerable area. * But why would there be a penalty to the the regular shot. For example If you are targeting a vulnerable area (say...

One way you can "lower" magic is to slide the spell progression of casters up 2 levels. There is room at the upper levels to slide 9th level spells to level 19/20 instead of 17-20. This makes levels one and two into apprentice levels (magic takes a long time to learn). 1st level full casters...

I agree with so many of the flaws that you see with the fighter and I like the idea of giving fighters extra reactions. I think that there is one more problem that you have not addressed and in fact exacerbated with your additional level 2 feature. The fighter is already too heavily front...