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No one is suggesting any sort of teleport or shenanigans. There are a lot of people saying that combat wouldn’t normally happen at those ranges. No intelligent creature is going to charge at bow using players at those ranges. And no player can force engagement at those ranges without the...

Obviously it’s your call. But to me that seems like adding extra complications to solve a problem that I’ve never run into. Or at least, I’ve already unknowingly solved by just having opponents act rationally. Edited to add: what I mean, is that if you are making rules changes, and then...

I haven’t tried them, but I might if there was an option in between Epic and Default: EpiDefault: Short Rests are 5 minutes, Long rests are 8 hours.

Why not nerf the range if most combats don’t happen that far? Because then you have people complaining that it’s not realistic. And you also remove the option to have fights that do need those ranges…for example Mass skirmishes. Say for whatever reason you do have a scenario with two larger...

I don’t know…I guess I figure if a group is dumb enough to charge a bunch of players from 600 feet away, they deserve to eat five or six rounds worth of arrows. Most predatory creatures wouldn’t. They’d attempt to stealth around and attack undetected. Bandits and the like wouldn’t (unless...

How angry he would be would very much depend on the person. Maybe he’s pissed, maybe he’s relieved. Did he want the power, or was he dreading it?

Simplified!

I picked Cleave, because the thought of an extra Great Axe attack sounds just lovely. But it was a really hard choice. I could easily picture using a lot of them depending on the type of fighter I was using. My rapier-wielding Dex fighter would have loved Vex. Nick would be awesome on a Dual...

I’d agree, but if they don’t like Graze for whatever reason, that a fair substitution.

It works out (obviously) less than the minimum possible damage. So a great sword would do 7-17 points on a hit, and 5 on a miss. Assuming a non-magical weapon. Doesn’t feel that horrible to me, especially since it’s not uncommon to be 8th level before hitting that 20. But if this is a bump...

The choice comes from the fact that Fighters can swap out options as they level (and add more than one, so they can choose each attack). The bonus itself is just an added benefit for martial classes to give than an extra bit of oomph. It also goes a ways towards helping differentiate weapons...

I pretty much agree with everything except it being a waste of time tracking. Even at high levels, 5 points isn’t nothing. It’s unlikely to be a game changer, but it sure is a nice consolation prize. And it’s not like it takes anymore time. The DM says hit or miss and the player then...

You’re right. And actually that’s part of the point. No one needs to take shorts rests outside of those classes. So my theory is that even with groups that have one of those, short rests still don’t happen with the frequency the game seems to expect. Thus leading to warlocks feeling like...

This is true, but if it uses up all the spell slots (say, for a warlock), that class is then out of aces in the hole for any future encounters. Personally, I rarely (if ever) see a player blow all their resources in the first fight of the day unless it’s a really bad one, or they’re pretty sure...

I’d say it was adding what every other mastery ability was adding: an interesting mechanical differentiation between weapon types that the specialists can use to get some minor spotlight time. I don’t think there’s any deeper ulterior motive with DoaM than there is with Vex, Cleave, or Nick.

And if they were adding DoaM across the board, you would be right. But we’re talking a rider on a small number of cases. It’s not replacing the attack/damage paradigm, it’s adding to it.

I actually think the high level slot issue is integral to the feel of the class (for me, anyway). Warlocks can’t bring the variety or amount of magic that traditional casters can, but when they do it is always memorable.

Obviously I don’t. But resource management is part of the game, and that’s hard to do without a bare minimum of meta gaming.

Fair enough. And it’s interesting to hear. Personally, as a warlock, I know I have very few spell slots. So it’s always a case of “is this situation serious enough to use one now, when I know I’m not likely to get a SR for at least 2 or 3 more encounters’. I was just curious how many people...

Well, that’s why I suggested just to pick the average. Obviously it’s not an exact science. More if a feeling. If you were a short rest class, how many encounters would you feel like you have to budget your abilities over?