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I don't think that is my quote. I don't think I said that. Ok I missed that. good catch.

I said it is not supported by the current fiction and I don't believe new fiction will be published. Who knows. Maybe I am wrong.

Like I said, even with advantage on every attack it is not more damage than a Champion with GWM is doing and the GWM guy is using fewer actions to do it. I have not seen that in play, but you are using a Sorcerer to make attack rolls for damage, so I don't think this is going to be very OP.

Pick one PC, preferably one with lower hps and a lower AC. Concentrate all attacks on that one PC until it is dead, take AOOs if necessary to do this. After that PC goes down keep targeting it until it accumulates its 3 failed death saves. Thematically this requires some thought (maybe they...

To be clear it is the Purple Dragons that were part of the lore, not the Purple Dragon Knight. If it is not important then why did they name a subclass out of it? What you are suggesting is they picked something obscure from the corners of the Forgotten Realms and decided to misuse the name...

I think you misquoted me. That said, aside from the name, there are two big problems with the class as written. 1. The Dragon can die and unlike other pet and familiar classes, you can't just resummon another one. Letting you use second wind to revive it is ok ... as long as you did not use...

I am wondering if they used AI to create the subclass!

It is not published.

Well people here on the board noticed and complained the first day the UA was published. This is the only breach of thematics/cannon related to a class name that I can even remember people complaining about here. Plenty of people complained about the 5E PDK, but no one complained about it...

The Purple Dragons have existed since at least the novel Waterdeep which published in the 1980s. The problem is using the title "Purple Dragon" for a Dragon riding subclass, especially since the Purple Dragons have an airial cavalry that rides Hippogrifs.

The problem with Vex-Nick is it doesn't work well with Elven Accuracy. Every time you make an attack with the nick weapon you lose advantage. To use Elven Accuracy most effectively you don't want to use Vex-nick, you want two Light Vex Weapons (short swords) and use one of them with a Bonus...

I don't think that is the case. What they suggest to me is the person writing the subclass knows nothing about the Lore and just read Purple Dragon and went with it. Who knows, maybe I am wrong.

If Cormyr is not updated then the fiction has not changed. The existance of a class or subclass does not change the fiction.

Yes, but in this case the fiction has not shifted and it is unlikely they will revisit Cormyr in any product in the near future.

You can't make an offhand attack unless you attack 1st with a light weapon. A net is not a light weapon and you don't attack with it, so it doesn't qualify for either of these. A net does not work even if you have the dual wielder feat. You would need 5 levels in a class with extra attack...

I think Dual Wielding Elven accuracy on high level Champions is weaker than strength-based GWM Champions in terms of damage output. The third dice is most effective mathematically when the chance to miss is high, which it usually isn't for a high level fighter. The third dice advantage does...

Because the subclass does not match the fiction.

With the PDK, the problem is they have not retconned the cannon to match the new subclass and I think it is unlikely that they will.

Here are the "legal" options from earlier sources that I can remember that we have used in 2024 games: Elven Accuracy Feat Scout Rogue Backgrounds (I think we have only had 1 out of 16 PCs use one of the 2024 backgrounds) Dragonfear Feat Cause Fear Invulnerability Thunderstep Tasha's Mind Whip...

A lot of people seem to be upset with Elven Accuracy. We have not found it to be that big a deal in the 2024 games I have played. It is a good feat for someone attacking with Dexterity or Charisma, but to get the most out of it you need to attack, which by its nature means it does not mesh...