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Has anyone asked what the Rogue's alignment is? If he's some form of Good, there's a stronger possibility that he would've come to his party's aid at the risk of his own safety. If he's Neutral or Evil, less likely. How has the character's personality been defined? Is he the bold type who races...

I would probably include a caveat to limit the resistance or crit immunity to non-magical damage only. Of course, that likely makes it scale even worse. How would the 5' speed reduction work for dwarves that don't currently get slowed by heavy armor even if they're below the Str requirement...

My main concern about Shillelagh in this campaign is getting a proper club or quarterstaff after escaping from the Drow deep in the Underdark. I could bring a staff with me as a spell focus, as long as I'll be able to find where those $#^%ing Drow hid my stuff! :)

I had intended to make a Bladelock for my Friday night campaign that's about to start Out Of The Abyss, but I may go this route instead, assuming I can get something to Shillelagh with in a reasonable timeframe :)

The pull is to maximize the effectiveness of the Barbarian's Unarmored Defense, without having to blow any ASI's on Strength. Yes, you give up some of the benefits of Raging, but your focus as a Dex Barbarian will be more on survivability, and less on inflicting the most damage possible. With a...

Yes, when he initially created it as the Witch Hunter class for the D&Diesel one-shot, he said flat out that it was influenced by his love of The Witcher :)

Yes, Matt Mercer created a Witch Hunter class for the one-shot game with Vin Diesel to promote his movie. After the one-shot, he fleshed out the class and put it on the G&S website. Now that the promotional period is over, he's gone back, incorporated the feedback he's received from people who...

Yeah, the wording is a bit sticky, but if I were a DM I'd probably rule that the 1st-level spell learned via Magic Initiate is immutable. You take the feat to learn THAT spell, not gain a generic 1-spell increase to the number of spells you can know at any given time.

While it's true that the Mystic Arcanum abilities may be less useful for a Bladelock that focuses on dealing damage through combat, there are certainly benefits to those higher levels. One thing a Warlock is traditionally not strong against is hordes. For your 6th-level spell you can choose Mass...

They would end up arguably more powerful than Wizards. "Full Casters" never get more than 2 slots each for Levels 6 and 7, and 1 each of Levels 8 and 9. Warlocks at those levels only have a total of 4 spell slots, but they're all at the caster's highest spell level, and recharge every Short...

I dunno about other players, but if anyone in my party is going to be squishy, I'd rather it NOT be the guy who's likely to be the party healer. :) My group had an early session where our Cleric was knocked unconscious at least 3 times(pretty sure 2 of them were in one fight), and it was...

Well, the short yet blunt answer is because that's what the writers intended when they created the feat, as explained in the Sage Advice paragraph about it. They purposely created many of the feats with a benefit to specific types of characters, as well as a more general benefit, like a +1 to a...

Definitely grab some good AoE spells, your single-target strikers will appreciate not being overwhelmed. :) If your weapon-wielders are primarily melee attackers, look for stuff that knocks people prone, restrains them, etc. My party's Warlock got his first chance to use Blindness last session...

Definitely some neat ideas here. For the BeastMaster's Mark, I'd almost prefer to see a spell that combines his with the traditional Hunter's Mark, so both the Ranger and his animal companion share the benefit of the same Mark, even if it means making it a 2nd-level spell. For the Marauder's...

And if I'm at the table for that TPK and someone starts laying into one of the other players that his use of a d6 weapon instead of a d8 weapon caused us to get wiped out, I can guarantee you that's the last session I play with said complainer. People like that suck the fun right out of the game...

Mike Mearls from Wizards responded to this very issue on Twitter back in August, you pick all your targets when casting the spell.

I'm a recent returnee to the game, having been away for 20+ years. So far I'm falling into the "mostly" category. I want to treat my character as an actual character, not a bag of stats & abilities. I'm not dipping into 4 different classes trying to cherry-pick the coolest abilities in the game...

The short, blunt answer is "because that's how Wizards Of The Coast says it works" :) But think of it like this. If you're casting a 3-beam Eldritch Blast, all three beams are part of the same "casting" of the spell, and once you cast it, it's done. If you imagine the beams coming out of your...

Blue's got a point, it's less useful when going up against a horde of similarly-powered enemies. But if you're going up against just one big baddie, or a group of cannon fodder and something of higher level(a bunch of goblins and an ogre, for example), then having the Bard hang back and try to...

No, they're not considered simultaneous hits unless the spell explicitly says so, like with Magic Missile.