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The feat already gives a major benefit in 'provoke opportunity attack when they enter your reach'. That is huge and the main point of the feat IMO. The butt strike is a nice little extra. Dual Wielder feat doesn't let you add ability to damage on the secondary attack. It gives +1 to AC...

If I was DM, I would disagree. It would just be 1d4 because that is all it says (and it is in line with normal TWF).

Basically they removed the 'polymorph self or ally into combat beast' option - at least until shapechange arrives for the favoured few as a 9th level spell. I guess they could have included some spells which duplicated the druid shapechanging at appropriate levels, but decided that it trod on...

A scroll of a reaction spell wouldn't pass my basic "does it make sense" filter.

In that case, even without room to fly I would have thought that the White Dragon could have spent a lot of time out of melee range of the PCs... maybe it was forgotten?

I think that the closest to a story based xp system which has been published by WotC was the one that Monte Cook did in d20 Call of Cthulhu. That was quite good.

You could change almost every instance of Tarrasque in this thread to Batman and it would sound like a typical 'who would win, batman or superman' discussion :)

I never liked giving exp for gold, but found that spending gold for exp worked very well - buying training or research or whatever. It got money out of the PC's and by setting a rate limit (eg 100xp per week) stops anyone just buying themselves lots of levels. Also explains high level wealthy...

I was wondering, do the no longer have the Ice Walk ability?

Is that any different to the great axe vs the two hand axes guy though? I'd sooner see no preferential treatment. Make it a style issue rather than a mechanics issue. Leave mechanics to the slash/ pierce/ bludgeon dimension

I notice that it is preorder for $29 in the USA - or £29 from amazon.co.uk in the UK. C'mon Amazon, that's not right. At least I don't have the temptation to not use a GS (which is neither F nor L, but if I don't support them, who will?)

I wish they had just made greatsword, maul and greataxe just all use 1d12 and had done with it.

I think you are underestimating the figures resulting from your maths! Even if standard NPCs rolled 3d6 and had no human bonus, 1 in 216 would have an 18 strength. In other words, every sizeable village is likely to have one guy with an 18 strength. The blacksmith probably. So every village...

Not even house rules! PHB p198 "Mighty villains and special non player characters are common exceptions: The DM might have them fall unconscious and follow the same rules as player characters"

I found this story OK but it had two things that didn't work well for me. First, who on earth is is felicity? Barry acts like he knows her, but we have never seen her before on the flash have we? I had to stop my recording and check that I'd not missed an episode somewhere along the line (I...

Thank you everyone for the comprehensive information! Do we still have a staff of power and staff of the magi with retributive strike?

How do you think it would work if you replaced the 'sorcerous origin feature' at 6th level and 14th level with an additional metamagic instead? That way the character class stays with the 'feature every even level', but you're not getting freebies, it is a replacement for an otherwise valuable...

I'm very curious to hear how Staffs and Wands are treated in 5e. I'm not likely to see a DMG for several weeks yet, so I'd love to hear from people who have it, how they are handling these classic items this time round. Thanks!

It wasn't explicit in the original Strategic Review article, and I imagine that they wouldn't have been specific after they got hauled over the coals for the Ent and Balrog (hence the renaming to treant and balor) The original ranger was clearly based on Aragorn though. Level names included...