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Yeah, utterly Level 5 is like still a beginner adventurerer. Yes, they are not total noobs anymore, but they just graduated from slaying giant rats and baby dragons. I don't think a lot of people have a problem with Wizards and fighter at Level 5. It's the Levels above 12 that make problems.

It all depends how powerful you want the Magic to be in your setting. If magic is not powerful and mundane people without supernatural abilities can match magic, why have magic in the first place? Why not make the Hulk weaker, so Hawkeye doesn't feel so useless and him being in this big battles...

But only having sword-lile technology instead of having other options that are more advanced is also setting specific. Only having the weapons that are in the PHB and nothing better right now is a pure setting decision. And like for me, in a medieval life fantasy setting with the technology...

One solution would be, to do non-magical options on a item level. Nonmagical Items, that can be used by martial to mimic or do even other stuff than magic can do. You just need to advanced from medieval fantasy to renaissance fantasy and have a Leonardo Da Vinci run rampant with Fantasytech. You...

A problem with spelljammer was, that 50% of the book was ships. While they are important, they took up so much space that everything else fell flat. Is their something similar in Planescape that could eat a lot of page real estate without giving us a lot of useful information?

But the game doesn't even offer an abstraction. Like, there is overthinking and than there is what the game provides (close to Nothing for Ingame explanation). I want something in between, a little more, a starting point to get going. Like, I noticed that problem of D&D 5e having no real Magic...

In a game where you have proficient spellcasters, you need a hard magic system a la Sanders, because the rules give you a hard magic system. Expecially 5e, where every spell works 100% of the time. Magic in 5e is like science. Reliable, repeatable, learnable. And I know that the mechanics of the...

Yeah, even a little more would have been nice. Like most creatures including dragons, elementals and spirits don't count as magical. Constructs that are animated by magic count as magical creatures that can interact with spells like detect magic or dispel magic (Animated armor). Constructs that...

That's a good question. What I would like is an example. Like a more detailed guide on how magic works in the forgotten realms that explains the mechanical game rules. And from that it would be easier for me, to adjust it for my table needs.

I'm struggling a little bit with how magic in D&D 5e functions in-universe. While the Player Handbook has a lot Information about casting spells and magic classes, the explanation, what magic is inside the game world, is one short text in chapter 11 about the weave of magic. The magic of the...

Careful spell doesn't give 0 damage, it only makes them make the save. So fireball still does half damage with careful spell. Also careful spell costs sorcery points while sculpt spell is free. Careful spell is for controll. Sculpt spell for damage. Transmuted spell only gives you the bad damage...

I played a pure Barbarian once. I didn't really like it. The whole Barbarian class is even more limited than the fighter class, who st least can get a lot of feats. So you ste saying the difference in feel is not about the subclass at all but what you make of it? ;) I think you mixed up the...

Hrm? What are you all doing with your Wizards? I play since 2018 and so far I have played 4 Wizards. 3 in campaigns and one in a One-shot. They all played different, felt different and worked different. My first Wizard was Tas'Ha, a female human evoker, who was an already experienced...

The problem is - Summon Greater Demon is not Teleport or Plane Shift or Something. The Caster actually uses his concentration to keep the spell running, to keep the demon here. Planar binding says that it extents the duration of the summoning spell to 30 days. So we have two ongoing effects...

Day 199 – 214 – The Ruins of Skullhaven – Level 0 Here, I’ve tried to take a slightly larger scale. Instead of 5 feet per 5 millimeters (per square), I’ve used a 10-foot scale and oriented myself more towards the level of detail found in Wizards of the Coast’s official maps. This means that...

This is the way.

But only being able to counterspell V, S and/or M component spells makes sense. It is logical in the game world and removes the meta knowledge. DMs I played with used this part already as a house rule. That's why the subtle spell metamagic is actually meaningful. I would also add that you need...

My first criteria is: How easy does it look to run? Like, I buy published adventures to save myself time and and energy y not having yo homebrew stuff ... and than I start reading most adventures and am Like: running this would feel like homework. Even reading this feels like homework. This...

Players will still fight anything that could nerf their characters abilities.