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You end your turn flying. That's the point of having a fly speed, and not the Eagle Barbarian's ability. Feats that add to your movement speed add to your flight (and climb and swim speeds for the tabaxi and lizardfolk among us) unless they specify your walking speed. Passive scores represent...

I feel like their point wasn't to unify the goblinoids into one entity, so much as to show that they are distinct entities that only put aside their differences for the greater glory of conquest. But yes, the Yuan-ti Section. I'm dedicating a part of my next campaign region just to a Yuan-ti...

I've been on the fence about psionics for a while now, but I'm really curious to see the concept art they're using to try and visualize the Mystic. It'd probably go a long way into figuring out the direction we should put our feedback towards. The concept of Three products a year sounds like...

The bugbear's ability can only be triggered once in a combat, requires surprise (which requires the bugbear to first beat the players in a Stealth v perception roll, and then beat the PCs in initiative), and only has a +4 to hit. Not to mention half the hit points, meaning that after the first...

I'm not arguing the elemental point either. (though it raises the question: how much does an Earth Elemental weigh? It might actually be rather loosely held together, hollow, etc., and therefore not actually all that heavy) I'm arguing that grappling and stabbing isn't inherently a bad idea and...

It seems silly powerful, but it is realistic. Getting someone on the ground and holding them there is an extremely effective (if not the main tactic) tactic in warfare if you're dealing with armour. (EDIT: With a sword. A pole weapon was also a pretty good means of beating up the armoured...

Just a thought I had, but aren't both the Elemental and the Slaad primarily melee attackers? How would I go about adding a ranged opponent to fight in the cage; would that change anything at all? (I assume ultimately it'd end similarly to the other fights, as they would run into the same issues...

That's what I was concerned about. It felt like the Archer should do more than just shoot for parity with Brutus, but I couldn't think of anything that would actually help in a cage fight. I think in the case of that ruling, the problem was that they almost worked themselves into a hole making...

I always enjoy reading your insights on powergaming. You understand this system well, and it leads to things I hadn't considered. Sometimes the best offence is a good defence, and it shows. EDIT: That said, the Xbow user is a little lacking in tactics. I wonder if there's anything more they can...

You also forget that poison resistance/outright immunity to poison damage is also exceptionally common in the MM (I haven't done the math with the VGM stuff), which is going to limit the options of what to hit with it even further.

Additionally, there's a couple other variants in VGTM that aren't given a statblock because they're so easily made. The Booyagh Caster makes a variant to the goblin simply by saying "Hey, this goblin can cast a 1st level spell once per day. You get to pick which."

Honestly the better design (for myself as a DM) is to have 1 or 2 monsters that can do something "cool" and then the rest be cannon fodder. The cannon fodder doesn't need many abilities, as their presence is to simply keep the players from focusing down the "cool" monster. Now, there is a...

I know a lot of people have wanted a spellless ranger, but what about a Ranger who's designed to shore up on the spellcasting ability, and makes them think more in terms of what spells they're using (with fighting abilities to fall back on) rather than as a fighter who can cast Hunter's Mark...

There's still some castlebuilding rules in the DMG. They aren't nearly as elaborate as in other editions, but if you tell them it's an option, there's quite a few people open to having their own base of operations, even if they never permanently reside there.

Some continuity corrections: Darth Vader was *not* intended to be Luke's father at first (best as I can tell the name was a corruption of "Dark Invader" rather than the dutch word for father) The original movie did imply you can live on after death ("Use the force, Luke!") Otherwise your note...

I meant for the purpose of this thread (official events related to AL). The whole reason I did private AL games was because they counted for gathering XP from DMing. Otherwise, I haven't been to an actual AL convention or store game, so my experiences might not be what Morrus is looking for.

I've been tempted to drop into ALOCON, but otherwise not really. My home game followed AL rules for a while, but I don't believe that counts.

I've also been looking at swashbuckler 3 for an AL Bladelock build. How many levels of it did you take?

I must have missed that part of the announcement. That's fine by me; I never really cared enough for Drizzt, and he seems out of place in a set of minis meant to represent the most generic adventurers possible.

I probably wouldn't use them, but I love that idea. There was a survey a while back on what sort of game aids we wanted, but other than that I wouldn't know how to go about suggesting it to wotc.