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To me the difference in sandbox and linear is more, can the players go out and find interesting and relevant things to do no matter what path they choose vs there is only 1 main path for them to follow, possibly with a few side quests and possibly with a few alternate sequences to read the paths...

Monopoly has railroads. Make from that what you will.

Yes.

Even something like a level 7 sorlock in a single encounter day with 4 rounds barely matches the Heavy Crossbow battlemaster in damage while maintaining similar levels of control. And it literally takes virtually all the sorclocks resources to accomplish that.

By level 11 I'm confident saying you have enough resources to quicken pretty much every round as well as use a level 3 control spell once per short rest. That's when I think the sorlock and battlemaster actually break even. Though I think the battle master can outdo the sorlock at some levels...

I'm trying to put this into perspective. Assuming the standard 60% chance of success. A battlemaster using 5 dice on menacing attack will fear an enemy 3 turns per short rest. A reoccuring save spell like Tasha's will disable an enemy around 1.2 turns on average (assuming a 4 round combat)...

A few points in no particular order. 1. It doesn't matter what you 'can' do if you don't have the resources to do it often. That's the Sorlocks biggest problem. As you level that becomes less and less of a concern, but it doesn't even remotely get mitigated enough for a long time. 2. The...

Exactly, so long as you can expect enough misses for the Sorcery points you have then seeking is the same damage addition as quicken without the bonus action requirement. At least while you have 2 beams. 1. Web isn't a good DPR boosting tool, great control spell though. The enemy gets an...

I think one could use empowered and seeking before character level 11 without too much drop off in damage compared to quicken and would make playing the character feel alot less clunky.

I think a level 7 sorcerer can convert all slots to sorcery points and use his class recharge ability can reach 32. 2 levels of warlock for hex + eb + agonizing is character level 9. My bigger concern is that at least 1 round per battle and probably more is from using your bonus action to...

Here's the thing. If physical interaction from attacks doesn't reveal illusions then: Turn 1. Players group up. Illusionist creates Illusion of a Boulder in their space. Enemies cannot see players. They get disadvantage to hit them and players get advantage to hit them for the same reason...

That makes no sense. Such an assumption isn't necessary simply because of quoting. A. The proposal doesn't follow from the passages, at best it's an interpretation trying to be forced upon the text. B. If you want rules that work at the table then don't allow illusions to give advantage to...

Sure and with the physical interaction rule that tells you it’s an illusion. Without you need to spend an action and succeed at a check to do the same thing.

I didn’t. And besides, what difference does it make if you wrote it before or after? Also, why do you assume I assumed that? Yea, so just pure coincidence that the thing you said you wanted out of the rules is how you ultimately end up reading them, despite the natural language reading being...

I’m not the only one understanding him this way. I’d prefer to have Kobold speak for himself. I do not trust your interpretation of his words.

One thing I always loved about illusion spells was that when the DM sent a bit more at us than we could handle, with some intelligent play it could easily give him a plausible way out of the TPK and that's something most DM's usually will take.

I think illusions are mostly meant to be out of combat spells, and the really are fairly amazing for that part of the game.

Here's my take. The Boulder Problem There's no good solution outside the PHB rules to the illusory boulder on a PC's space problem and it's much too powerful an effect to allow at the spell levels of the ability that can produce it. If the whole party can move (no hiding actually required) in...

In the OP you said: I think this snippet of your OP fully answers your 'what is the result you think I want' question. I think the misreading was when you said the PHB rules say you cannot attack them and proceeded to use the premise that this would mean 'the Study guidelines are lousy' as...

Warlock offers a lot for a 2 level dip. Can get hex, eb, agonizing, lucky feat and an additional take of skilled (can’t take more than 1x from invocation, but can take skilled on background and on warlock 2). One should be able to pick up virtually all the skill enhancing abilities. In no...