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Not that I'm disagreeing with the distaste for this, but... did you play 1e AD&D? Because it was even more pronounced there. Instead of just hitting a simple sphere, Fireball filled a volume, so if you cast it into a small room (say) it could overflow and hit you with the backdraft. As a result...

I actually think the War domain is a decent option, especially for an NPC. War domain lets you have 3-5 extra attacks as bonus actions (depending on Wis modifier) per long rest. Discussing whether short and long rests are implemented right in 5e is a point of some contention; the designers...

It was mostly the replies in the first page or two, that seemed to mockingly answer "Why play this class?" with, effectively, "Why play D&D at all?" that came off as both unhelpful and not addressing the question at all. I think it's a reasonable question, even if all of the OP's implicit...

I'm really surprised by how belligerent some of the responses here are. It seems like OP is asking a fairly straightforward question, and is largely getting heckled in response. To answer the question: clerics really aren't meant to be primary melee combatants. At low levels, a war cleric can...

I've always found the easiest way to make firearms work for this kind of effect is to re-skin wands and describe them as firearms. I personally like making activating a firearm to be a special action like activating a magic item, rather than an attack that scales up with the number of attacks...

Yeah, Warlock is weird because the casting changes fundamentally at lvl 11-20. It's difficult to know how this changes when we have a full 20 level progression, possibly with additional disciplines, so I'm basing this on the "capstone" abilities being the 7 point usage for each of these...

Well, first of all, I'm pretty sure this is going to be *the* psionic class -- we're not likely to get separate classes for psychic warrior and soulblade, so the Immortal is likely to be as close as we're going to get. Second, the Immortal isn't a full caster in the wizard/cleric sense, she's a...

Right, I think that plus Lethal Attack in its current form may be too much. Right now, though, there are NO primary melee combatants that don't get at least one extra attack. Paladins actually get the extra damage on each attack (Imp. Divine Smite) AND extra attacks; other classes that don't get...

I'm surprised that people aren't focusing more on the lack of an extra attack for the Immortal. That's basically a deal-breaker for me, and for a lot of people I play/have played with. The obvious comparisons are to Valor Bard, Paladin, and something like War Cleric. The first two both get...

Well, even without spell slot overlap, the fact that cantrips (1) exist and (2) scale based on character level rather than class level does a LOT to fix the problem.

Overall, this looks like they're moving in the right direction from the first release. I like the talents, I like the psionic focus, I like the disciplines (though I want a Psychometabolic discipline to grow claws and armor!) My initial reaction is that the major issues, which people have...

> If you attack with a shield—most likely as an improvised weapon—do you keep the +2 bonus to AC? Attacking with a shield doesn’t deprive you of the bonus to AC. This seems like it has a huge impact on the action economy, especially at lower levels. It wasn't initially obvious to me how this...

That's... not true? You can't get away from the bard being a caster, for sure, but the bards I've seen in actual play worked much more as as fighter type with a dash of magical knowledge/ability than "caster first and foremost." On the topic of inspiring words bringing people back to...

Like Flexor, I've been playing since the red box BECMI days. I've probably read or tinkered with a majority of the systems that came out in the 80's and 90's -- though that may be an exaggeration, depending on how you count minor/fringe RPGs I may not have heard of -- so depending on how you...

I used to post in the WotC Min/Max boards (before they became the CharOp boards circa 2004) under the user name Grey Muse. There was a lot of interesting theorycraft that came out of those discussions. I think even the archives of that time are long gone by now, though, since they changed the...

To add on to that question, TwoSix, is their take on psionics just Ultimate Psionics, or are there supplementary books you'd suggest looking at as well? While I responded to the 5e psionics survey, I haven't really looked at anything since the 3.5 XPH, which I thought was really well done.

As a general rule for D&D, yes. However, it sounds like a great premise for a campaign. "DM: The name of this campaign is 'The Worst Month of Your Life.' Player: Cool, what's it about?"

So just to be clear -- your interpretation is that you can throw it at the person (which requires an attack roll) or at the ground under them (which does not require an attack roll) and they'll take immediate damage in both cases? That seems contrary to both the RAW and RAI. Hemlock's reading...

I agree that it's one of flavor, but I get a different sense than you do. My feeling is that the flavor of the Realms is just more over-the-top epic in scope. When I think of Greyhawk, I immediately think of Iuz, a demon price running a country and trying to take over the world. He's no...

This page you linked has a link to the adventure on DNDClassics.com: http://www.dndclassics.com/product/123538/Monster-Slayers-The-Heroes-of-Hesiod I don't know anything beyond what that says, but it has a description and a free download of the adventure itself.