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Talked to one of the authors recently, their schedule got delayed, but the adventure will come out soon acording to him.

Satine Phoenix and Kingsmill are two good options too. Both have videos with DMtips and would show her cool women who also DM.

Oh, got you now! I've also had some struggles finding that information. the 1d8+5 seems like a good average to use as damage output. How I got the feel for it was a bit less crunching numbers and a little more experimenting in the table. As both the players and I were begginers in the edition...

As I'm from a different generation (I was born the year you've said you stopped playing the game) there is little I can contribute here, but this was very enjoyable to read. One interesting point is the one I'm quoting, for the resemblance of the reaction I initially had with videos and streams...

Okay, maybe I'm missing a point, but weren't we supposed to not look at high levels? Not trying to be snarky or dispute your claims, just confused, because this makes me think you're comparing mid level 5e fighters to high level 2e fighters. About the main point of the thread, yes, sword and...

I'm not a 2e players so I can't say much about that, but did you compare the AC (or whatever formula was used to measure the difficulty to hit a monster) was compared to 5e? I say this because the designers have state before that the they did higher HP but lower AC to keep the monsters powerfull...

this kind of ignores "real" combat situations, as advantage is not that hard to come by and greatly improves the odds of hitting.

I've never said the Champion is not a good choice, that's not what I think when I say it's an okay-ish option by a damage stand point. It has it's upsides sure, and crit damage is great, but you have almost 0 control over it. Also, I don't think we are presuming a featless game in this thread...

To me a big thing is that we are using here an mediocre fighting style and an okay-ish subclass (all this from a damage standpoint) as the basis to look at damage. By this metric the numbers won't really seem big. A sword and board fighter shines brighter in their abillity to control the...

Another thing that I think is happening is that the OP is looking (or appears to look) at the Barbarian in a vacuum. Yes, he is very powerfull and takes a beating to go down at level 16... but did you see what a paladin can do at that level? The damage output can be absurd...

People use Magic Initiate to choose damage cantrips? I've never seen that happen, but it might be just a sample of my play group's experience.

Maybe this house rule should not affect the EK at all. From a narrative standpoint it makes sense for his cantrips to do more damage than other casters.

and at lvl 16 a moon druid soaks up damage waaaay more effectvely than a barbarian.

one point I forgot to make is that you are comparing an end game barbarian (that has high DEX and CON to an regular/mid level fighter) it's REALLY hard to get to 20 in both those stats (unless you are rolling stats and get really lucky). there are clear disavantages to DEX barbarians, as they...

1) physical attacks isn't the best description, you have resistance to piercing slashing and bludgeoning damage. Being from physical or magical attacks. On the same hand, you can receive normal damage from hysical attacks that involve other damage types. 2) not really, you'd have to max out DEX...

The thing that might change the power level in this is that you are removing straight damage, wich is not a big focus of the affected classes to give them versatility wich is a big deal for casters. Not telling what the caster can do with the slot means they will use for anything they want, and...

Giving the player the choice is a good option indeed. As for the argument of fairness, well, that's kind of subjective. If all players agree with a house rule, who it would be unfair to? I don't think your house rule is leally balanced, I'm not certain the summ of the limitations on cantrips and...

sorry, that's not what I meant. I meant problem like in a math problem, the challenge, the puzzle, the thing we're trying to work out. I personally prefer to create house rules that give players stuff instead of taking things away from them. So I thought that maybe instead of bringing cantrip...

OP, do you think this would be a good alternative way to go at the problem? Cantrip Scalling for levelled spells: When you reach 5th level your single target damage spells (same limitation as Twinned spell maybe?) can be cast with the lowest level spell slot possible as if they were cast with a...

Sorry if I'm assuming too much, but if the goal is making low level damage spells feel more relevant than cantrips (wich I think is reasonable) wouldn't it be more effective to come up with a better way of making them scale?