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WotC's Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford have posted the latest Unearthed Arcana column, this time introducing the Kensai and Tranquility traditions. The Kensei trains relentlessly with their weapon to create art out of combat; the Tranquility tradition seeks peace and mercy over violence.

I was not aware of that, my fantasy gaming experience being restricted to D&D, Pathfinder, and Dresden. But as another point of evidence Ranged Attacks in the PHB "You can make ranged attacks only against targets within a specified range... Some ranged attacks, such as those made with a longbow...

The lack of certainty in the wording "Make attacks at a distance" makes me hesitant to assert strongly that they must be beyond 5 ft from you. As my best evidence I present the last to paragraphs of the "Range" entry "The first is the weapon’s normal range in feet, and the second indicates the...

My current set up is a Surface Pro + Battle Mat + Tool Box of minis + 2d20. The Surface Pro has been a godsend with One Note. Someone posted a free One Note notebook with most of the free 5e stuff in it and from there I added stuff for whatever adventure I am running. If the adventure is in PDF...

My personal philosophy is to do the minimum possible when converting things to 5e. In this case I think you can get the same feel from an arcane tradition. I would focus the abilities around using spell slots to command undead creatures. Effectively giving them an animate dead like ability that...

The type is "an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage,". For contrast Ice knife is a dex for no damage, and many other AOE spells like cone of cold and cloudkill are con saves. But yes, most dex saves allow for evasion.

Against enemies that have over 100 or so HP with low con saves, this is a pretty good ability to kill them, overall great value. However against high CR enemies they have either naturally high con saves or legendary resistances to prevent this, Against those creatures it's likely better to...

Nitpick lowkey13, you don't get proficiency to damage, so the monk does at its base 44 (4d10+20) damage per round (At the cost of 1 ki with the benefit of 2 chances for prone/knockback). Nitpick at op, how is your monk getting a d12 for their martial arts die? It only goes up to 1d10. At the...

There are few things you can do, but it sounds like combat is nasty and brutal. Which is somewhat different than my DMing style, or at least what I try to do. First and foremost 18 AC is good. Less good when you start fighting giants, but actual giants are a beating. There are some monsters in...

I have not dmed one yet, but both the DMs I play with try to do it as often as possible. For our AL game he rolls on every spell and gets the tides of chaos roll back frequently. He's a wild magic sorcerer, we need some wild magic. For the home game our DM has him roll on every spell and every...

There are a few things. First you are right, there is no widespread mechanic for having tanks be sticky, which is to say there are few ways to force enemies to attack the tanky characters. If you have the sentinel feat you can halt someone's movement with an opportunity attack and a few war...

It can use it as often as it has a reaction, which is to say once per round. So the way to kill a nilbog is to hit it at least twice a round, the second attack doing more than 3.5 damage on average.

The class is fine if you goal is to do spell like things or be a monk, however to do both it's hugely draining. If you can reliably take short rests after every deadly fight it is probably workable. However over a prolonged adventuring day they have to make the choice between using their spells...

You are adding fluff where it doesn't need to be. At the base of the ability it's pretty mechanical. Spend 1 use of your channel divinity to get advantage against one creature you can see within ten feet of you for 1 minute, full stop. You can then assign fluff as needed. Presumably if a...

In addition to always having multiple enemies, legendary resistances were literally designed for this thing. I find a mix of legendary actions, friends, legendary resistances, and random thematic abilities I make up work in making boss fights deserving of that name.

With high rolled stats and a magic item you are going perform well in combat. The early levels are also where the monk shines damage-wise because they get 2/3/4 attacks before most other classes. (Technically a dual wielding fighter gets two attacks at the same time and at level 5 they both have...

Going back to the OP which is the popularity of Eberron in 5e. The lack of new books does not help Eberron grow, but if you want to play Eberron in 5e it's pretty easy. PHB + UA/Playtest + 3.5 books has been working just fine for me. For me the most interesting stories are exploring Xen'Drik...

I have a few interesting tidbits about level 20+ play and designing epic monsters. Then a suggestion. First and foremost, I 100% agree that for small singular fights the encounter guidelines are not even close. Having 6-8 normally budgeted encounters is frankly tedious and uninteresting to run...

The spell you are looking for is Imprisonment - Slumber. The target falls asleep and can't be awoken. As with all imprisonment it has some esoteric condition to end the effect. Having everyone come out of their slumber makes the perfect hook I would think, as whatever condition ended it can be...

Given how quickly the tides can turn in low level 5e I wouldn't worry. After they use this on the first group the second one will get them. I remember my experience with the first starter set encounter which is 4 goblins. Every time there were a few turns where a goblin hitting a PC would have...