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IT'S TIME FOR THIS CHART AGAIN! With thanks to 5 Minute Workday's article on this subject.

Certainly nothing in my reading of the Blackguard entry seems to specify they should be treated as fiends. If a DM decided that Blackguards counted as fiends (and perhaps Paladins counted as Celestials) in a style of the very old rules on evil clerics "turning Paladins" to suit their cosmology...

Shield in particular is an odd one, since I think it *benefits* from being able to be used only when needed and you know it will provide a benefit, and a benefit lasting then So I think it is a stronger spell being used as a Reaction. (and the lack of other spells that you'd likely want to...

I believe you are misunderstanding the quesiton. Xeviat is quite aware that the shield spell uses a reaction (I think...), instead what I understand they are asking "if there existed a spell that provided the same benefit as shield, would it be more potent or less potent than the existing...

Depends a bit upon the class and how many abilities they have that use bonus actions already, and how persistently. From the top of my head; Rogues and Monks have alot of abilities tied to bonus actions and I expect them to use their bonus action pretty much every round. Other classes have less...

I'm going to pretend that when I said "Whilst wyrmlings might well be encountered in a dragon’s lair, I don’t see them as primarily a combat challenge." I meant exactly as salient point as this >> But thinking about it, the adorable baby dragon is something I've come across in games I've played...

Like many others have found, 4E and 5E four age categories work very well. It means that you can have them fully statted out, and both 4E and 5E managed fairly consistently to fit the four stat blocks across two pages and include a picture. Four age categories for the 5 core chromatics and 5...

Yep, I'm sure with appropriate DM adjudication and players who buy into it, a game with alignment works just fine, but I've played an game of Scion that was fun with appropriate Storyteller Adjudication (the rulebook was not quite thrown out of the window). Sure but I am also pretty sure that...

So I haven't played or run 4E for a few years but I do recall 4E was pretty much a breeze to DM. But there was one piece of guidance that I recall was missed: The encounter level and easy, standard and hard encounters was very clear and easy to use. A 4E short rest between each combat...

Oh thank Bahamut, the forum is readable again. I am going to pretend that this obviously wasn't me misclicking and spending several days being confused.

I think your mock up is pretty good Zard' but a Dinobot REALLY needs to at least be proficient in Intimidation, if not have a full on Dragon style Frightful Presence. Few dynasties have been over thrown by such powerful words as:

This is a bit of an old thread, but a good use of forum search. Nothing in the expertise class description states the skill proficiency has to be one from the rogue's class list. So I see no reason why Expertise would exclude something like Arcana or similar granted from the character's...

I love themes of moral quandaries and religious faith in roleplay, which is pretty much the core reason the nine alignments and their related mechanics frustrate me so much. So curiously enough I literally finished running a local Authurian LARP a month ago, with the Quest for the Grail and the...

I feel this might be derailing the thread a little, but yes, even with *apparently* immediately obvious alignments for fictional characters, I have found very open to debate upon analysis. Exactly what is meant by "Lawful" in particular appears to be a vast umbrella of semi connected or...

To add to the chorus: I don't enforce Alignment, mostly because I gut it like a fish from any game I run.* I find the idea of the DM telling a player that they're playing their character wrong to be a very odd concept from the expectations I have of gaming. I likewise don't see how in...

Nope, not at all. I think if you want to consider the beyond ridiculousness of biomechanics in D&D, the Halfling is a curious starting point. Although I now want to run a game that includes "You see a dragon fly overhead, then it crashes..."

To echo much of what's already been said Encounter Builder The guidelines for the encounter builder means that 5E feels forgiving ("easy"), which the Encounter Builder makes it feel wussy for anyone with optamising and tactical players. Esp. their use of the word "Deadly" to mean Rather than...

I think this is an easier nerf. Also, much of the problem is that I suspect most groups (like us) find it tricky to have the 6-8 encounters/adventuring day into the narrative of the game.

Mostly I'm a carebear DM and if the story is more focused on the characters and their story rather than. In this case it is less whether they win fights or not, but the consequences of how they choose to do so. If it's a shorter one off or a minicampaign, then I care far less. That being...