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Fireball isn't good if you are going to use it on single target, most of AoE spells aren't. AoE is for disposing or sapping multiple opponents at the same time. Something that martials still can't do. AoE and aggroing are things that they sorely lack. I know, there are very few encounters...

Thats all fine and dandy, when there is fight party vs 1-2 creatures. But put them against 10-15 opponents in dynamic surrounding (some fly, some run and gun, some dimension door to the rear line), it's back to basic action economy. Martials are beast vs single target. But they lack options that...

I just re read simulacrum. Components are interesting. Snow or ice in quantities enough to make copy of the person. For average person, that's 70-100 liters worth of ice/snow that needs to stay frozen during 12 hours it takes for casting of the spell. Even Cone of cold can't do it ( creature...

If players use cheese, dm's can use cheese too. Simulacrum, say hello to my antimagic field.

In essence, martials don't need buffing in classic sense. They need more cool stuff to do. Yes, your high tier 3 and tier 4 fighter can tank and dish out damage. To one opponent. While his compadre wizards calls meteor rain on battlefield. Give them whirlwind attacks, leaping attacks, stuff like...

2, Vecna and Dungeons of mad mage. There are 3pp, like the one OP have just finished. What makes tiers meh? It's easy way to differentiate power levels and expected character levels.

Sure, but it would be challenge and not one-two rounds steamroll over opponents. Tier 4 characters, specially if they are caster heavy (and looking at your party, you have only 1 non caster), are very strong, Not just in pure HP/DPS, but control spells as well. Antimagic/dead magic zones shuts...

This. Bo9S is solid template how to make interesting martials that keep up with casters. Compared to 3.5 Warblade, 5e battlemaster manouvers are underwhelming and laughable. Sure, at higher levels, it goes into wuxia territory, but who cares when at the same time casters can alter reality at...

Yup. But have one or two encounters like that in big campaign towards end of tier 4, it's ok. Adventures shy away from anything that shuts down PCs abilities. Or God forbid, destroys their magic items. Late teen levels were always problematic from encounter design perspective and they do...

That depends entirely on how you structure encounters. Combination of opponents and environment in which fight takes place also has huge impact. I don't run published adventures ( read trough lot of them and will use bits and pieces). But take OP-s party, which is magic and magic user heavy and...

On the side note, 22 sessions for lv 2-20 is damn fast. That's almost level per session. Even for 4 h sessions, you guys must be laser focused and run trough game at wicked pace.

Mostly stick to 2014, but might try out some stuff from 2024 version. Mix and match, depending on level of complexity and power. That's for campaign we currently play. When i run things, it's 2014, phb only, no feats, with some stuff taken from 5e LoTR. I like to run more grittier games and...

Well, high level D&D has always been wonky and unbalanced. From personal experience, either PCs mop the floor, or they get moped. It's art to make encounter at that levels without making it initiative rocket tag or long grinding slog fest. And to be fair, most adventures, particularly high...

Mage is good, but only if you really want to center it around mages and wanna deep dive into complex system of magic. Core nWoD (or CoD as they call it now) rulebook is better for general urban fantasy. I listed above some of the supplements, but one other that's solid is Second sight. It...

4th book should be something like "Gamebuilder's toolkit- how to homebrew". Optional rules, guidlines for crating custom classes, subclasses, monsters, spells, items, settings. Something for people with firm grasp of mechanics, will and creativity to do a bit of homebrewing.

If i'm buying physical rpg book, i'm buying it exclusively as an art book that won't be used in game. I'll flip trough, admire nice art and put it on the shelf to look pretty. For actual game use, i prefer bare bones, tech manual style and digital format that is at bare minimum, searchable with...

Yea, rugby guys are tough mofos. For some reason, most of people that liked geeky stuff in HS were also into martial arts and combat sports (kick box ,judo, wrestling). Trying to bully someone with early onset of cauliflower ears isn't smartest idea. Jocks, where i'm from, were mostly football...

I'we been playing ttrpgs totm pretty much whole my life. Even in the old days of 3x/PF1. During pandemic, we just used google meets and shared google drive. No vtt-s or anything. But, our group isn't into super tactical combat. If you have players that like that stuff, totm isn't really for them.

Funny enough but our main campaign started in 2013 with 2ed and we switched it to Next playtest and then 5e proper. Half of my playgroup started with 2ed ad&d and they all said that 5e gives them 2e vibes. Some similarities are quick and easy way to build characters, with almost no choices...

2014 was just as bad when it came to rules for pc-s as lychantropes. 5e ditched concept of templates which was pretty decent way to have rules for PCs.