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Why on Earth would you want to? Assuming you know sorcerer spells what would make you want them in a book? The first part I was wrong on. I was looking just in multiclassing spell slot rules. Not playing much in the way of wizards without some spontaneous casting I had not looked for a...

You are correct, it may be my bias showing, I find myself not fond of most simple ranged weapons, especially compared to cantrips and may undervalue them compared to others, and it caused me to make an unfair and unfounded assumption regarding people using ranged weapons as a cleric. My tempest...

Racial feats just give you the spell which is more like multiclassing spellcaster classes (thematically you are getting spells much like a sorcerer, by virtue of your ancestry). To rule otherwise seems pretty arbitrary that clerics, druids, and wizards in touch with their racial heritage are...

I am mostly on board with Warpiglet. I start with what is my mini holding, then think which makes the most sense in my head, then I decide if I want the more satisfying die (d12) over more predictable damage. Then all of that goes out the window based on what items drop in Adventurer's League.

You can cast any spell you know with a spell slot of the appropriate level or higher, even if your normal class is a prep class like cleric, druid, or wizard. This edition is weird where slots are not intrinsically tied to a class' spellcasting method as they used to be.

The question an extent is best at what? If you like planning carefully and reducing the impact of chance - Diviner If you like ensuring other people are safe to do their jobs well and shut down opponents - Abjurer If you want to shoot powerful elemental blasts without much worry - Evoker If...

A big thing to remember as far as design decisions go is that cleric and priest are not interchangeable (using 3e design notes). A cleric may be a priest but all priests are probably not clerics. Clerics are the evangelical and troubleshooting branch of a church. They are expected to go forth...

I say keep it and don't give an alternative. There are several proficiencies given that are rarely used that give options, even if rarely put in use (rogues are proficient in longswords, the unarmored defense barbarians have light and medium armor proficiencies). It gives the option of a lower...

1. Since you are not using a higher-level spell slot you do not get any of those improvements unless specifically noted. Tiefling specifically says that Hellish Rebuke is cast as a second level spell. 2. Generally not. There is a difference between knowing a spell and 'can cast once per day'...

The designers have also openly admitted that some 'classic' options are deliberately overpowered (fireball and lightning bolt come to mind) the staff could theoretically be another one.

This is pretty solid. Our table's Paladin and Cleric spike way harder than the Rogue, but once the spell slots and channel divinity are gone the rogue's sneak attack on every turn is better damage. The Wizard just has no idea what he is doing.

It feels unnecessary. As others have mentioned it is more of a cleric feature they took away from some subclasses (mostly in exchange for even better casting) without the weird wording of "loses heavy armor proficiency." The other part being it sets a dangerous precedent. What if Dex fighters...

An alternate informal way to phrase it might be along the lines of "a character who would be able to tell discovers a ward with a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check." Although that might be better left for a GM ruling, examples may include the trained sorcerer who never studying/encountered/cast...

My current group sees between 30% and 50% depending heavily on what shenanigans we got up to in town, on the road, etc. We are also on the small side with 4 players and our last session was slowed down with an experimental non-replacing random number generation method. We frequently had to...

Completely valid, and maybe not an issue at all. It is just the specter that rises in my brain whenever people want to pull classes closer together. I had the same worries with some of the UA stuff that mixes class features (whatever that wizard with sorcery points was), and the Xanathar bard...

That was in reference to the balance of 4e. If you pull all the striker (controller, etc.) powers from my books and shuffle them without including the fluff, many, possibly most, are difficult to tell apart

I think making the rogue as attacks as an attacking class runs into some issues: 1. You lose the point of being a generalist who is pretty good at several skills but obviously not as tough and hard hitting as a dedicated combatant like a fighter or barbarian. 2. If everyone hits as hard as a...

I get the frustration, but it seems to me to miss the 'point' of the rogue. A fighter's speciality is fighting, hitting things with a big chunk of wood and/or metal, ideally all day long. A rogue is more of an opportunistic combatant because that is more their secondary focus as a class. The...

I always thought the reverse was weird, Wizards are supposed to be super intense with studying, but had very few skill points as well. it is like they wanted fighters to have only the physical skills and wizards only knowledges.

There was one discussing Oberyn Martell that pops up now and then, but the most recent catalyst was a post on a Facebook, but I dislike using that a platform for discussions (way too many notifications).