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The issue with comparing a character in a game with a superhero like Batman, Captain America or the Punisher is that these guys survive the big threats mostly through copious amounts of plot armor and their enemies forgetting the powers they have. Batman isn't gonna survive a point blank attack...

PCs could choose to retire early with a few thousand gold, but they'd be missing out on a lot, mainly power. At level 5 you're pretty strong, but an orc war band, an evil lich, or a dragon in your area can still ruin your life on a whim. If you keep leveling up you'll be able to defend...

I think giving more uses to skills is a good idea, although bounded accuracy doesn't play too well with the epic uses. With higher numbers you can just go, "Yeah, you can walk through a stone wall with a DC 45 Athletics check, go nuts", while in 5e I think that'd be more on the realm of a...

I think just nerfing the outlier spells or poorly written spells should do the trick (Simulacrum, Hypnotic Pattern, Animate Objects, Glyph of Warding, Forcecage, Wall of Force, Magic Aura, Magic Jar, etc). Maybe limit casting in armor as well.

Been playing Divinity Original Sin and found it interesting there how everyone has magic, even the "martial" classes. The Man at Arms is good at tanking and hitting things, but they also have a super scream that buffs all allies with resolve, can charge like a ram in a straight line and knock...

Watched the trailer. Man, that looks bad.

Seems to have made 1.6 billion dollars at the worldwide box office, the most for any animated movie ever. Probably worth a sequel, although I imagine it might not do as well with way less nostalgia on an original story, and the "live action" remakes having lost steam for Disney.

In all seriousness though, non-magical 5e martials can get pretty crazy, but mostly due to general rules of the system, not their own class abilities. When you can survive being bitten by a moon-sized monster, or shrug off an explosion that's like a small nuke, it's hard to say you aren't...

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The Hunter Ranger has an ability called Volley to attack everyone within 10 feet of a point as an action, so 16 medium creatures, or even 64 tiny creatures if they're all crammed together (a lot more if you consider 3-D space).

If we want a superhuman thing that D&D humans can pull off, a level 1 Rogue or Fighter can grapple a Rhinoceros in place against its will, and even drag it around. Need a bit of luck, but it's definitely possible, even for the purely non-magical classes.

The Rogue's Evasion ability lets them dodge point blank dynamite explosions with no cover, lightning bolts from clouds and hails of bullets from automatic rifles.

I'd say Polymorph works normally. If the person turned into an object, then even Greater Restoration wouldn't help since it says it targets a creature.

Yep, the issue is both a lack of scaling and the effects on save failures often being too punishing.

The effects are bonkers, frightened makes most melee characters useless since they can't approach the enemy, and it's a basic condition that gets thrown around a lot. Getting paralyzed, losing actions, being slowed or charmed in an AoE, completely possessed, straight up one-shot to 0, turned...

Saves not scaling at all can get crazy with the kinds of abilities even extremely low CR creatures can have. For example, a pixie is CR 1/4, and it has Polymorph and Phantasmal Force, two spells that can end a fight for a character if they land. At level 1 they're an okay chunk of an encounter's...

You don't really need to rule anything, it says so explicitly: Ironically, it worked pretty well in one of my games, the Wizard used it to save an ally that was knocked out and swallowed by a monster, just moved the mind inside the thing and Dimension Door out.

For Manifest Mind, it can move through creatures, but not objects. Limits their movement more, although it's still pretty strong.

To beat it by themselves, 4 Aarakocra PCs with ranged weapons/cantrips should do it, if it's outside. It can't hit back, and they can whittle it down from safety. Not very fair, since even the Tarrasque would fall to such a party, but you do what you gotta do.

I suggest buying 100 slings and buffing a Bard as much as possible to Persuade 100 commoners to help you out.