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    D&D 5E (2024) Should paladin's aura of protection be "normalized" a little?

    When I say that the Wizard should be the Books/Rituals subclass of sorcerer I'm only slightly joking. The fighter takes more finesse to fix because there's no one class that's almost like it but a lot in its space. I do wonder how much of the strength fighter you could melt into giving the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Should paladin's aura of protection be "normalized" a little?

    One of the improvements made in the 2024 rules was how it eased back out of this trap through moving the subclasses to level 3 and adding stat modifiers to the feats. Under 2014 rules the strongest paladin and contender for the strongest all rounder in the game (certainly the strongest without...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Celestial Warlock's Radiant Soul got a buff

    Just to ask a simple question: is English your first language? Because although your English is generally pretty good you are reasoning like someone who has learned English from books and as a second language rather than a native English speaker who actually uses the language. Or you are...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Celestial Warlock's Radiant Soul got a buff

    The part where I agreed not to leave other people with your incorrect take as the final word of the exchange. You are entirely willing to say that something's the last thing you have to say (and I encourage it and have learned over the last decade to practice what I preach here; I speak from...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Celestial Warlock's Radiant Soul got a buff

    You need to check your basics. This is a deceptive edit based on a sentence fragment and ignoring the role of punctuation. At the most trivial you are wrong that you have to cast the spell on your turn; Hellish Rebuke is a spell you cast on someone else's turn but gets the extra damage. And...
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    D&D 5E (2024) PHB 2024 Is Hilariously Broken. Most OP of All Time?

    The change to take out the word "hostile" and instead leave who to attack to the discretion of the attacker makes complete sense. War Caster making spell OAs makes sense (although I thought they'd changed something there). It's a not following consequences bug. One I plan to treat with a rolled...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Celestial Warlock's Radiant Soul got a buff

    Simply put this appears to be complete balderdash. Although it is theoretically possible to put together a Sorlock that can use it twice on a turn this was always weaker than making your quickened cantrip an agonizing Eldritch Blast. And I can't think of a single bonus action fire or radiant...
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    D&D 5E (2024) PHB 2024 Is Hilariously Broken. Most OP of All Time?

    Ugh.Two changes not meshing. 1d4 damage for a feat assuming no fighting style. I don't find this remotely worrying unless there's a combo.
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    D&D 5E (2024) PHB 2024 Is Hilariously Broken. Most OP of All Time?

    Dubious. Well known. And honestly stacking 4th level spells and taking away the Warlock's casting ought to be good. And a dispel or the wizard losing concentration loses the whole thing. Teamwork makes the dream work. It isn't right. You get a free attack from Nick that explicitly disallows...
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    D&D 5E (2024) PHB 2024 Is Hilariously Broken. Most OP of All Time?

    3.0 and 3.5 broke on the magic item creation rules This concerns me. Opportunity attack only triggers against hostile creatures. Now a case could be made for a party member who was a dwarf with a toothache or if the party had the group dynamics of Fleetwood Mac circa the Rumours album. But RAW...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Celestial Warlock's Radiant Soul got a buff

    I'm trying to work out what bonus action warlock spells do radiant or fire damage in order to actually use that. (It's hardly the worst thing Sorlocks can do...) And in terms of balance the reworked True Strike turned the ability from basically worthless into one that enables a niche build with...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Celestial Warlock's Radiant Soul got a buff

    There was nothing preventing them sticking with the old wording as they did with so much. I can therefore only conclude that the change was intentional.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Celestial Warlock's Radiant Soul got a buff

    The devil (or Celestial) is in the details. The old version read: The new one reads: What's the difference? Spells that stay in play. The old version triggers when you cast the spell - so once for the entire wall of fire. The new one works when the spell you cast does damage to a maximum of...
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    D&D General Warlocks: Charisma vs Intelligence

    Flex it; there's a case to be made for any of the three "standard dump stats" (Str, Int, Cha) and it won't unbalance things the way Wis might (also wise people don't make deals with devils). Also flex sorcerers to Cha/Str
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    D&D 5E (2024) Should Goodberry get improve like Cure and Healing word?

    Nope. Cure Wounds and Healing Word doubled the random but not the static part of healing (so has Goodberry). Doubling to 20 hp would be ridiculous. Goodberry either becomes a heal over time if it increases potency or a pseudopotion that takes a bonus action to administer and stays at 10hp
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    D&D General D&D 2024 does not deserve to succeed

    Meanwhile it encouraged me because the locations actually mattered and we're no longer the equivalent of filming in a studio against a green screen with really pretty locations being added in post-production but the characters never interacting with them.
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    D&D General D&D 2024 does not deserve to succeed

    YMMV In mine 4e was the only edition of the game that encouraged truly custom monsters thanks to the ease of construction and the powers structure being an open mark up language for custom abilities. (The worst was 3.x with feats, monster hit dice, and too much calculation). In mine 4e was the...
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    D&D General D&D 2024 does not deserve to succeed

    Hardly. The period characterised by decline is the 2e era - and from memory D&D's first peak was in 1983 so we might say the decline started in the mid 80s. And the 2e era was both the era in which D&D was overtaken by something that was not D&D (WoD) and the era that drove TSR to bankruptcy We...
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    D&D General D&D 2024 does not deserve to succeed

    And mine is that it's still overwhelmingly focussed on combat. For that matter I could easily argue that it's proportionally the most combat focussed D&D of the 21st Century. Compared to 3.X I would say that it is mechanically actually more combat focussed. The combat is lighter - but it's...
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