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I think the UA classics revisited Fighter Scout is a pretty good representation of Drizzt in 5e with its access to natural explorer. Yeah, he played it pretty well too. Oh and he also took the second roles of rules lawyer and chief complainer (when he couldn't get what he wanted). All tongue...

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My high level fighter would not easily bypass AC 22 with his +12 to hit. In fact he would hit it about 50% of the time

Booming blade is good when you are mobile, so moving in, attacking a lone creature and then moving back. Its also got a better damage type and is good when using as an opportunity attack with warcaster. Green flame blade is better for frontline fighting where you are more static and more likely...

Aren't there many other threads where people say that fights are too easy, monsters ACs are too low, CRs are too low, various classes are overpowered (and nobody plays the ones that are not). If that is true then why would you need more than 16 in your main stat? Take as many non combat feats as...

I have only used it twice with my fighter. Once to prevent a save or die and another to prevent a TPK from a demilich. I'm pretty happy with its use as an emergency button that I rarely have to press

Good point I never thought about that. I bet its all a bit slapstick from the Warlocks point of view being the only one in the room that can see. Lots of wild flailing of weapons with opponents accidently walking into the attacks. Having seen a few eldritch blast ranged warlocks I'm looking to...

I am wondering how often the darkness interferes with the rest of the party though. I mean, the area is large and surely it impedes the warlocks movement as they cant go where the rest of the party is. I can see my DM making good use out of the darkness on the monsters behalf

If you plan on being mobile in combat using misty step and maybe the mobile feat you may find that booming blade works better than green flame blade. Assuming you move in and out it can put an opponent off from following you and also deals more direct single opponent damage if they do. Thunder...

I agree with you, but I also appreciate that many players prefer the direct control of the first option. There is one player in our group who certainly misses playing his 4e wizard controller in many ways, though he still likes the classic feel of 5e

I do think there is a little of that going on though. If you look at table H you get +2 leather next to +1 studded next to +1 splint. So the table designer certainly recognises that armour types are different. On table I +3 leather is as rare as +1 plate. Table G is the silly one where you get...

This seems to be theCasualOblivion's point though. In 5e you'd need to ask the DM to do this and face your restrictions (stealthy, hidden, with a dagger and no damage dealt). In 4e the player just tells you they are doing it. The opponent doesn't need to be wearing armour, no stealth required...

There are of course a huge variety of non codified actions that you can perform in any edition. However 4e doesn't often play like that and to be honest doesn't need to. The game is focused on giving the players the power to dictate their own character actions, how those action affected the...

The thing is 4e allows for a level of player control that I doubt very much any DM would say yes to in 5e. For example if the players requested that they pretty much controlled the movement of the monsters, deciding which monsters attacked which party members, ensuring the wizard was safe at...

Yes, and in fact the random magic item generation tables hold to this. The chance of finding decent magic armour (by that I mean magic studded leather, half plate, plate mail etc) is very slim compared to finding magic weapons or pretty much any other type of item. I stick to that concept when...

I would suggest that actually 5e is a pretty good fit for someone who wants to optimise their character joining an encounters group mainly because it is difficult to optimise beyond a point. You will get to build a great character and it will still play nicely in an un-optimized group (if that's...

Well technically you could drop your weapon, cast the spell and then pick it up again which creates the same desired effect so I'd probably allow a character to tuck it under their arm. Also in 3e light shields left your hand free so there is some precedence there too

Warcaster doesn't help fighter-mages that much. Too many good spells need a material component and therefore you still need to sheath your weapon often to cast. I am playing a fighter-mage type and a melee cleric both without warcaster and its fine. Sometimes you cant make an opportunity attack...

I'm in total agreement when it comes to game balance. I just can get over the idea of playing a lute while still wearing a shield. I don't see any real way around it unless you rule that holding and waving is enough which I don't think either of us want. My valor bard wears a horn around her...

Well they kind of did. The core bard does not get proficiency with shields. The core bard including the lore bard subclass and possibly other future subclasses plays an instrument like a lyre in combat and on occasion draws a weapon to make an attack. It works just like you describe. You are...