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Classes that use strength especially seem pretty strapped for points. Pallies and barbies for example really do want 3 really high scores that aren't possible with point buy. Compare that to say a wizard who really doesn't feel like they have to really pump anything besides int. They do benefit...

Chris Perkins talked about this a bit in that Q n A where he hinted at Ravenloft. It was linked here like 2 months back or so. It was basically what everyone else here said. The smaller books don't look good on a shelf for the stores. Many DMs who want to buy books, just want to run from one...

Yeah for what it's worth, in a game that i atmosphere heavy if not narrative heavy. Bloodborne is a a game with both gothic and eldritch horror tropes. I think they can work together fine.

Without multiclassing it can be done because of melee cantrips to pretty dope effect. Abjurer mountain dwarf wizard is no joke, the bonus proficiencies that otherwise make little sense with the stat bonuses, all that extra HP topped off with alarm from the abjuration school, running around...

Different strokes for different folks. I'm into a bit of Gothic Horror from time to time. Packs of werewolves rampaging over small towns. Mundane protests over living conditions being tinged with just a little more hysteria than normal, turning into insane bloody riots when a mob of zombies...

From a purely mechanical perspective they are full casters with medium armor keying off wisdom with a varied spell list. Few other full casters get medium at 1, no other full caster can get heavy with a sub class. You use wisdom which is a much better save than int or charisma, it's the...

I agree on that point. It's hard to say an accent is out of character unless certain accents are agreed upon earlier. Why is an English accent in this non English setting? Why can my bard not talk like a Norwegian? On the derogatory thing. Different people are sensitive to different things. In...

Healing isn't as big a thing. It's best used during a fight to wake someone up, or in between to refill. You can wake people up with a single point, be that a pointment of lay on hands or forc feeding them a potion. With hit die and short rest you can get around a lot of the attrition depending...

Someone asked the devs about this. Such as using it a crossbow with a shield. Devs said nope. You can get the bonus action with the bonus even though you're using one hand crossbow. But you even though you can load it on the quick you still need a hand to load it. Which basically means you...

It sounds like he wants to be silly and is likely having fun, but is just a poor fit for your table. Have you tried talking to him? Are you willing to do a silly game? If you do another one you need to establish tone and expectations. If he refuses then you just have to deal with it or stop...

By raw you can't reload without a free hand. You also can't attack multiple times per turn with a crossbow without crossbow expert feat. However if your gm waived the free hand bit. Such as self loading crossbows or a weird reloading rig on your belt. Then you could get 2 attacks from range...

I'd make grappler worth using. Grapple during AoO or expertise in athletics , something dope. Also make great weapon fighter work with melee weapons in general. Ranged and heavy melee pull so far ahead because other melee characters are missing out. There's no reason TWF or sword and board...

What Illi said. I don't see why they would benefit from say unarmored defense, from the hiding ability of an elf, poison resistance of a dwarf, action surge of a fighter, but not raging. Now you can say that all these things are impossible as a weasel or giant crocodile. But then the rule is...

It's okay for characters to fight in a sub optimal way. As long as it's narratively relevant, or it's done to evoke a certain effect whether it's to have weaklings or be silly or what have you. Now these weapons were annoying and badass before. So either they changed them to be crappy because...

I suppose that'd be up to gm discretion. But it's not a feel good tale either way.

Yeah, neither of those are bad ideas. More levels but you get more and don't have to out 13 in a likely dump stat. And taking dueling becomes strictly superior a little later than using the quarterstaff staff, but not that long, and also is a bit thematically cooler. Just grabbing steak knives...

Yeah anything that changes your AC calculations doesn't stack. Mage armor, draconic resilience, unarmored defense, natural armor, and more I'm sure don't stack you choose which one to use. If you dip monk with a druid. You can choose the natural AC of the creature. Or redo their AC with dex...

I too am unsure about the cantrip. But hex is genius. Monks get a lot of attacks but don't do much damage on any one of them. The die aren't large and aren't going to get the same value from great weapon feat as a fighter. But when you add a d6 with each attack now you're cooking with fire. How...

I would try to make it a class with limited levels that had a transformation that worked similarly to a druid's. Balanced with a cost rather than just free stuff. If the player wants to play a lycanthrope that's fine with me. As long as it's not the wrong sort of disruptive.

Yeah seems like a difference in tastes so he is trying to implement less lethal house rules. Maybe you should have it out as a group expectations about character death. From semi regular save or die to resurrection magic is readily available to no deaths ever. Since that seems to be the...