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The highest damage casters are Paladins who are also martials.

I don't know about this, we have a pretty bad-ass fighter and my character has more Rogue levels than anything else.

Taking damage is not as valuable as taking attacks and a lot of classes are better than the Barbarian at this because they are more difficult to damage. I agree, and would add Warlocks to that list.

IME Fireball is situationally awesome. Fireball is probably the best 3rd level spell when you have large numbers of enemies clumped together, with relatively low hps, who are immune to Frightenend and Charmed and not resistant to fire and there are no allies in the AOE. In that situation it...

This is not true. 2024 gave all non-magic classes a bunch of buffs. Personally, I do not generally like the buffs given to Fighters and Monks in specific in 2024. I prefer the weaker 2014 versions and am non a fan of the non-magic buffs they gave them. I would rather have a greater imbalance...

Rangers are casters.

What exactly are they ranking (combat power, fun, all three phases) and how are they addressing levels (the best classes at level 5 are usually not the best at level 15). Is it a 1-20 ranking or are they focused on a specific tier? What I can say is if you are looking across levels 1-20 and...

In this post I am capitalizing the condition "Invisible" and using the lower case invisible when talking about the common meaning in English. I hate the new "Invisible" rules but they are what they are. invisibility in 2024 is quite complicated and defies the common English meaning; you can...

A Valor Bard has a special version of extra attack. He can cast a Cantrip that has a casting time of one action in place of one of his attacks when he takes the attack action. This gives him an attack and casting of Truestrike as an action. Then he gets to make another attack using Battle...

In 5E you take the action to be hidden. You get advantage on that if you are invisible and creatures rely on sight, but absent the action to hide you are not "hidden" in 5E even if you are invisible. You are just unseen. The rules for this changed quite a bit in 2024. I played Arcane...

Tasha's hideous Laughter. Sorry. This spell is WAY amped up from its 2014 version. It affects everything now, no intelligence limit and can affect multiple creatures.

The foresight Shortsword should probably be Rare. I do have 2 rings of resistance as well, but I would say it is not crazy many magic items. I have some potions and scrolls but not more than 10.

It changed from being hidden to being invisible, which is a significant change because even if you were unseen or invisible to be "hidden" in 5E you generally had to take the hide action to not be heard.

That is why I used the misty step, so that it would be impossible to lose line of sight to me. They are not able to move once they ran to the other end of the room.

In the begining of the campaign it varied. At the end of the campaign we only long rested between Dungeons/Strongholds which happened during downtime. We only leveled up between dungeons, and not every one. This is a milestone game so the level up happened after completing a certain dungeon.

I took a guess. It is a Longsword wielded in 2 hands - 2 attacks, plus Truestrike. So it is like 3d10 sword + 6d6 vicious + 3d6 truestrike + 15. Probably. Fighter has Greeat Weapon Master, and is attuned to both a Hammer of Thunderbolts and a Belt of Giant Strength, giving him an extemely...

I don't know exactly because it is his thing, he did have to sign something. I do know he had the adventure before anyone else and he told us he was testing it. He offered to let me play in it, but it did not fit my schedule, I don't know if the people who did play had to sign something or...

I love D&D. All the adventures are fun. I would say overall this one was below average for the ones we played, in part because of the end of game lack of challenge, but also the story is not that great. But it still was fun and it was neat to try out the new 2024 PC abilities at all levels.

2014 at very high level probably was about 2-3 rounds for a average combat and 4-8 for a boss fight, but it was lower than that if it was a caster heavy. There were 1 round combats though in 2014, ended with a forcecage or something, but it was not every combat like it is now. So here are a...

I went through them quickly (as in time) not in terms of difficulty. What I posted here was differences between those campaigns and this one (i.e. longer combats at low level ..... 1-2 round boss fights in tier 4 .....) Baed on my experience, at high level 2024 is way more unbalanced than...