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This is exactly what I was going to say. Xeviat, in your OP you lay out all the advantages of having an empty hand, and then you just kinda shrug them off. Not sure I get that. That said, if your numbers check out then I think it is definitely a clever way to try to balance what you perceive...

Bingo. Medium armor is the easiest way to get pretty damn good AC. It doesn't take massively optimized dexterity. It doesn't take extensive martial training, deep pockets and above average strength. It's competitive at lower levels because it's supposed to be competitive at lower levels. It...

Sadly I still don't have time to really dig as deep into this class as it deserves. But since nobody else is saying much: I love the new powers. That's exactly the sort of thing I had in mind when I suggested expanding conviction into the other pillars. The main thing I don't feel like I have...

And if not ignoring elevation, then perhaps he decided that the eye beam range works like a physical ranged weapon. If you were 60 feet above a target I may not apply the regular disadvantage for attacking with a javelin... Elevation works with you, after all. Yeah part of it is that the...

Slight correction: there are equivalents of negative AC in 5e. Any AC in excess of 20 is effectively negative AC. A fighter in plate with a shield and the defense style has effectively -1 Armor Class by 1e standards. They may be less common, however. I haven't dug into the high level monsters...

Some people may assume this is a joke, but it's really not. If you're interested, I've had good luck with a cleric 1/ abjurer X hill dwarf. Heavy armor, shield, shield spell, extra ward HP, damage-on-hit abilities like fire shield all added up to some serious survivability. And warcaster lets...

I think you're right, except... Classes don't need to be representative of the masses. The average knight in ASoIaF isn't even a *fighter*, really. He's just a generic d8 HD NPC with some basic armor and weapon proficiencies. The question is whether or not this class could be useful to model...

I haven't looked over it extensively but one thought jumps out already: you need more ways to spend conviction dice that intersect with the other two pillars, the same way spells provide a variety of possible uses outside combat.

But most of the Night's Watch are not Knights at all. They're criminals, bastards, and other cast-offs. edit: in recent years, anyway. In the days of old, the Night's Watch was a more respected post and saw many more Knights taking the black. Those guys are the inspiration for the Order of...

Good advice; I'm with Shadowdweller in that while the damage math kind of checks out (due to Death Throes) I don't much like the flavor of weighting the Balor's death so highly. Just one nitpick though, Prism... the Balor already kind of has a Vorpal sword. Why? Check it out: Vorpal swords...

Good point! I mean, the only true "Wizards" in LotR are basically the Istari, right? And they're neither men nor elves nor dwarves. It's been a long time, though, so I could be mistaken. But good point about Dwarven magic, such as it is. Norse dwarves, like dwarves in much of myth, are...

Yeah, it's a very neat idea. Instead of a spellbook, he has a bag of runestones inscribed with spells, and each day he attunes to a few of them.

It's true it's not literal cannibalism, but... killing and eating another sapient species is in the same moral area as human cannibalism. We don't have a commonly used word for such a practice, because it's not an issue in a world with only one sapient species. So it's a little misleading to...

I think one reason it still feels like playing against type to many people is because it's not just about D&D. In D&D style heroic fantasy in general (LotR, of course, but also recent stuff for the newer generations like Dragon Age) dwarves are often not wizards, or even capable of being such...

Yeah, I pointed that out to him. I think he'll have picked up shocking grasp by then and still stick it out in melee most of the time, since he has great Con and medium armor. The high strength was mostly for athletics, I think. Gotta be able to jump pits and escape those rolling boulders...

One of my players has a mountain dwarf wizard. Only at 3rd level so far. It's fascinating how much like a fighter/wizard they end up being. Medium armor, battle axes, he has insanely good Str and Con... He only uses cantrip attacks in specific situations. Often, he just relies on the axe. He's...

It depends a lot on the setting/system/style, as others have said. I'm late to the 5e party, as I'd basically given up on D&D in favor of my home brew systems a few years ago. But I'm really liking what I've seen so far, and in the two games of 5e I am running I'm largely going by the book. I...

I'm pretty sure 5e may not be the version for you. Weak minions still being able to pose some threat to high level PCs is a feature, at least to many of us that find ourselves enamored with 5e. (and with unbounded HP, the threat is still relatively minor.)

One decent stat is usually enough to make an interesting character. I actually just signed up this moment because reading through discussions of array vs. rolling and nobody has mentioned my favorite method. Array feels to sterile to me, and too predictable. I like a bit of randomness, to...