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  1. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    Again, what are you talking about? There is absolutely not any way you can do 1024 or 2048 attacks in a round. Action Surge gives you, at the absolute most, 5 extra attacks if we're including Echo Knight subclass. Where are you getting 1000+ from?
  2. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    What are you talking about? Action Surge gives you one addition Action, which can be used to do however many attacks your class is capable of doing with the Attack Action. So at Level 5 you get 2 additional attacks, at Level 11 you get 3, and at Level 20 you get 4. That's not a "popular...
  3. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Anyone else dislike the "keyword" style language of 5.24?

    I definitely wouldn't say they're doing an amazing job at using keywords effectively, but it is pretty clear that they did put effort in 2024 towards using keywords to make wording less ambiguous or open for interpretation, at the expense of making wording sound natural. There are some...
  4. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Anyone else dislike the "keyword" style language of 5.24?

    "Natural English" leads to far more confusion and ambiguity. I greater prefer the emphasis on Keywords for clarity. Your argument does make sense; I hadn't thought about this before but I agree that the newer style provides more constant reminders that you are reading game rules and is less...
  5. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    Fair enough, tone doesn't always come thru properly in text, and it seemed like a serious critique since that inevitably happens repeatedly in every single thread where anyone posts anything about 5e. It's hard to not be annoyed at how acceptable it is to threadcrap on any discussion about 5e...
  6. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    My bad I guess I should've quoted that person then :)
  7. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    There's nothing complicated here it is just a Level 20 Fighter with a Greataxe and a contrived scenario with multiple enemies lined up like bowling pins. The only "complicated" part is you need a friend to cast Haste on you, but that's just outside help, not part of the character build. It's...
  8. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    Why do people go into a threads labeled as D&D 2024 to post nothing helpful except that they prefer other games or editions that no one here is talking about? Shouldn't you go post in threads about whatever edition you enjoy instead of putting others down for liking something that isn't what...
  9. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    No one is talking about using Mage Hand to disarm traps or pick locks, we're talking about Mage Hand purposely blowing up traps since it can't take damage. This isn't always wise, if blowing the trap would destroy something valuable. Also as noted by someone above, it's not particularly...
  10. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Non-Human Party - Campaign help!

    Why would a village be only humans though? Surely Tabaxis, Orcs, Elves, Firlbogs, and Fairies would live in villages too and have the same tie to saving a village as Human PCs would Anyways that's unrelated to the point of the thread and I only ask since it looks like you got some good...
  11. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    You can bump that up by 3 with Echo Knight's Unleash Incarnation
  12. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    100%. Personally I hate traps and think they're boring gameplay best left in the 80's, but it's still a legitimate playstyle for tables who enjoy old school nitty gritty dungeon crawling, and Mage Hand completely negates that aspect of gameplay. Sure the DM can be "creative" and make...
  13. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    Totally agree with all these points. Limiting cantrip casts per day just adds needless stuff for players to track and probably doesn't even address whatever the perceived issue is with them in the first place If you want to run gritty realism DnD but certain cantrips (plus low level spells)...
  14. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) What is your go to Concentration spell?

    Gotta be Hunter's Mark am I right?
  15. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Non-Human Party - Campaign help!

    Thread already has a bunch of helpful plot ideas, I have nothing better to add but I am super curious how motivating human characters somehow differs from motivating a party of non-human characters. Every DnD party I've ever seen was mostly non-human PCs and I've never seen any adjustments to...
  16. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) [+] Pointy Hat’s Battlefield Actions

    Yeah same, I frequently use the environment to do similar effects to some of his examples, but I really love how he just simplifies it as "Boss starts the thing at end of his turn, resolves the thing at beginning of his turn, PCs figure it out or get hit". Makes the design much easier for the...
  17. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Hands slot economy

    I just use the 5.5e Rules As Written for holding and swapping objects in your hands. They are rather lenient if you are just trying to do something remotely realistic like switch weapons in combat, but they do prevent obviously silly stuff like your examples of climbing with a greatsword in...
  18. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Hands slot economy

    5e has strict* rules on what can be held and swapped in your hands during combat. *Strictly defined anyways - they are rather lenient in terms of how many weapon swaps you can do in a turn, but the rules are at least clearly defined I'm not familiar with older editions, but I'd say start with...
  19. DrJawaPhD

    Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off

    I'm wondering this myself but then it also explains why they released it when it was glitchy, poorly documented, and obviously nowhere near ready to be used by anyone who wasn't already a master at using similar VTT's. The release seemed to go really poorly (at least from what I could tell)...
  20. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Do you track ammunition?

    Good question - I don't track them at all so I'm sort of talking hypothetically there. I would think though that by strict Rules As Written you would need to pay gold for mundane items, track them on your character sheet, include them in encumbrance calculations, etc. If any thought or...
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