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Clarification, it's not at least 4, it's on average 4. Sleep is pretty good early in a fight against large numbers of low hp targets. This prevents the aoe from potentially hitting allies (Though at 5 hp, it's unlikely a PC will go to sleep first) and it presents the foes with a decision of wake...

Because they are for two different situations. Shield is good if the Paladin is trying to hold the line and draw attacks, bless is for the paladin helping himself and allies do lots of damage. Because for many spells this would a ridiculous number to put down. Reading 1 hour duration is much...

It seems like people keep making really weird straw mans in this thread. No one ever said that list of spells was a complete level 20 sorcerer, these were clearly presented as the options that a non-blaster sorcerer could take if you wanted to play that. At no point did Minigiant say that at...

Or, unless I misread this part, you can have 20 sorcery points. The line "You can never have more sorcery points than shown on the table for your level." Makes me suspicious that you can have 109 at once. Over the course of they day you can get there, but you do have to constantly summon dogs. I...

Comparing many aoe damage spells, it really looks like the 8th level options are on par with each other. Wilting 10d8 -> 45, Con save doesn't hurt undead Sunburst 12d6 -> 42, Huge Blind Incendiary Cloud 10d8 -> 45, Flows away from you and can hit a lot of things potentially Fireball(8) 13d6 ->...

This is true, fortunately the third sentence of the spell says "Constructs and undead aren’t affected" So they don't even need to be immune. I like it for a mad wizard who makes golems and zombies. Or a PC if they learn how to do those things. Interestingly the two other 8th spells I looked at...

Within 5 feet to me means adjacent. About half the time I use a grid in my 5e games, so within five feet is any of the 8 adjacent squares. It's the same range as a melee attack and things like the protection fighting style. If there is five feet of space in between them, they are not within five...

Yes, Hoard Breaker is one of the few free attacks in the game.

I have no data to back this up, but I suspect places with large variance in players will experience this more. For me, we started with 3 up to 5 people and had a blast playing the starter set, spending as much time as we wanted on every part and getting really in to the role play. When the group...

This refers to specifically UA and other things like that. For something to be AL it literally cannot use anything outside of the PHB and Elemental Evil Player's companion. Additionally things are specifically played RAW. If you use something from UA, or if you think some recent errata is silly...

I think that the AL membership is much less than overall games, but for a non-trivial percentage of the gaming population AL is their only way to game. So for them fixes like "Just have the DM fix it" or "Have your DM homebrew it" aren't sufficient. For them having many of the fun and cool new...

For what it's worth, page 82 of the DM says, for creating encounter with disparate CRs "When making this calculation, don't count any monsters whose challenge rating is significantly below the average challenge rating of the other monsters in the group unless you think the weak monsters...

To get the most out of your arcane trickster you have to ask yourself what your ratio of rogue to magic is. If you want to have more magical options and be an extra good batman, I would suggest multi classing. I myself have a 5th level arcane trickster who is a Rogue 4 wizard 1. I like adding...

This is perfect. I have already started doing something similar, but seeing my own jumbled mess clarified is very handy. I will be stealing this right away. I get worn down with some of the bickering on other threads, but then I see something like this and am reminded why I even bother to go on...

This is correct, the key differentiation is the proficiency. If your wizard is proficient in the longsword then they are or have spent the time necessary to learn every little detail of how to use that weapon. How it feels in his hands, how to properly stand with it etc. etc. All the training...

I would say that it's a solid 70/30 in favor of improv now. The biggest example is my current long running Eberron campaign. When it started a few months ago I would actually plan out encounters by doing math. Put down some motivations for NPCs and detail likely way their plans would unfold etc...

To preface my experience with wizards, sorcerers and such is as follows: I play a Draconic Sorcerer (Level 6) and an Arcane Trickster 4 Wizard 1. I play with a Wild Magic Sorcerer(Also level 6). Additionally I DM for a Draconic Sorcerer (Level 7), and four wizards (Levels 15, 10, 4, 3). There...

Some of them are weaker some of them aren't. For Abi-Dalzim's horrid wilting it looks like a high level spell for a necromancer. Throw it in to an area where your skeletons are fighting not-undead. They take damage, your skeletons don't. It's pretty niche, which is not something I personally...

I think you read it wrong, his goal is to get bard things for the rogue. He want's a 1/3 caster rogue using the bard spell list and cha. Not a full casting bard with mage hand tricks. I think it's fine, it lets you make an arcane trickster who is still a face for the party. I would suggest...

It used to be that I prepared for my homebrew a lot. Because I was both writing world things and working on new story things. These were my bad times as a gm, it was my first real attempt to dm a full campaign and I made so many classic newbie mistakes. I have learned a lot in the last 2 years...