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Vanguard: If the creature moves at least 10 feet towards an opponent before making an attack, all of their attacks this turn can push their target back up to 10ft, and the creature takes only half damage from Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing damage until the beginning of their next turn...

You could just give it a reaction attack and extra actions, or a Legendary action attack that the creature can only use against a creature that just damaged it. Ultimately, what is the design intent behind the ability? Discourage the creature from being swarmed by multiple combatants in melee...

Lots of old school players applauded 5e as a shift from 3e and 4e. Many of them are still playing it because the style is more similar to older editions in some respects. As you say, its cool to hate on the big company / popular thing. Youtube income is often dependent upon negative content...

As best as I can parse it, it is the interaction between the Light weapon property, the Nick Weapon Mastery, and the Dual Wielder feat: Assume you are fighting with a dagger and shortsword, and take the attack action to make an attack with the dagger. Light(1) property allows you to make an...

Is this in addition to the 2024 wildshape rules? So the druid still gets temp hp and AC boost? And Wildshape regenerates on short rest? Owlbears are CR 3, so a Druid of level 6 can turn into one. They get two attacks at +7, dealing 2d8 + 5 damage. Plus Moonbeam is going to be up a lot of the...

Unless you're allowing short rests much more freely than long rests, you're still running off a lot less effective HP than party A.

Without being able to rest, how far are the martial team going to get before they run out of resources?

In a text format, I find it difficult to judge: Is this a rather flat attempt at humour, just standard internet keyboard warrior hyperbole, or do you genuinely believe that this is what most of the people in this thread want? Likewise this. What is the basis for this claim? If all of your...

Reliable talent, and expertise are great. But no matter how high you roll, you can only ever achieve what an ability check can achieve.

A Warblade (which could double as a warlord-alike using white raven) with capabilities like those in the Bo9S would be the 14th class that I would really like to see. The ToB was a great way of playing a more fun, but still non-magical martial type.

Assuming barbarian is raging and attacking recklessly and the bladesinger isn't actually using any of their spells to deal damage, base barbarian is better. Of course, since we are looking at a bladesinger wizard, it is only fair to compare with a barbarian with a subclass as well. Berserker and...

While Paladin is ostensibly a half-caster, if you actually look at Lay on Hands in terms of healing spell equivalencies, they are rather better than half-casters. Somewhat less extreme in 2024 D&D, but still better. Thieves are very versatile for a martial character, but even thought it is...

I've played in a game where access to spell levels was restricted to the same progression as half-casters, but spell slots weren't. (So full casters had more limited access to higher level spells, but still had high level spell slots with which they could upcast them.) That worked out OK, but...

Indeed. The entire basis of this thread is "What if the casters decided to nerf themselves to compete against the fighter's strengths?" rather than judging the casters on their overall performance including what their own strengths are. Whether they think that martials or casters are better at...

Even at high levels, I don't like factoring upcast CME into damage calculations: feels too obviously broken. At those levels its mostly unnecessary. I'd be interested to know how a slightly more sustainable strategy, such as maintaining a damaging spell and then using cantrips/lower level...

I believe that the discussion is around whether the cantrip that you get to cast as part of your extra attack makes you eligible to make the bonus action attack or not.

I'd guess the fact that Bracers of defence are more common than +2 armour.

It is absolutely possible to run Eberron with limited combat magic items if this is what is causing you trouble. 1) All the nations and several major organisations are in a cold war preparing for a resumption of hostilities in which magic and monsters can be expected to play a part. Anyone able...

Off the top of my head it shouldn't be too bad. Assume that the Paladin will be Dex-based, but they're splitting abilities and at most levels they will probably have less or similar AC to their Heavy armoured counterparts.

I'm not a fan of the new Purple Dragon Knight. I would like to see a Fighter subclass with a pet, but I would rather see two different subclasses, one dedicated to leadership and support, and another dedicated to the companion, rather than mixing the two and diluting them both.