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It's honestly not as bad as you think to record on a character sheet. Because you can only have 3 weapons readied to combo with, you mostly just figure out some combos you want to utilize and start with those. Adding double proficiency might be too powerful, I agree. The idea was "expertise...

Except that it describes that's exactly what they fight against... That's wrong. Hell, even in the Oath of Vengeance description it talks about them in exactly those terms EXCEPT when it gets to the tenets when 2/4 of them are extremely dubious and seem to allow a good or neutral character a...

... That was YOUR argument that he could have been the villain. So yeah, sure. Go ahead and call your own argument silly. And no, having a broad spectrum of characters that can be represented by a subclass isn't necessarily a good thing. For fighters, sure, it is because it's a generic class...

No they are not perfectly designed, ad_hoc, because while Inigo Montoya might be the best example of the Oath of Vengeance Paladin in YOUR mind, so is this character here in the player's. He follows all his tenets ravenously and is very devout in his cause... From Inigo Montoya to this...

I like the ideas of giving him like an Al Capone character against him. A rival would be a clever idea too. If his character can't be meaningfully penalized for acting out of alignment, then the next best thing would be to focus it. I've ran evil campaigns in the past and I'm thinking I should...

I disagree completely for the same reason that the game IS about stories. And characters in stories have consequences for their actions. Having tools to enforce a focused character leads to great role playing and sessions that don't slow to a crawl when situations like this occur. It's for good...

Have a page number? I can't find that side bar. At most I can find the one where I can just force him to drop his class and take up another or become an Oathbreaker. Dropping his class and taking up another is basically just rolling a new character and I'd rather avoid that if possible. For him...

No it's not problematic on the part of the DM. Penalizing a character for acting out of their alignment has been around for a long time in D&D but there seems to be less tools than ever to do that now. You guys seem to think I'm looking to punish the player and not the player's character...

I'm saying it's making the player's CHARACTERS uncomfortable and so it creates a lot of conflict among the party's characters even if they're on a quest together. THAT can usually be solved in game through means of introducing a common foe/immediate threat, distancing the party from the things...

Madeiner, just stop. I'm looking for ways to penalize a character who claims to be good for committing evil acts in an otherwise good natured party and setting. I'm not going to strip his character away from him. Edit: or IF it's resolved out of game, I would like logical reasoning that his...

This is a good idea. Something to give scope and reign in the behavior in the context of paladins. Him being "out of line" is a big deal for the other players, so making it a big deal for other paladins and giving them a bad name is pretty clever. Everyone else saying "talk to him outside of...

I should have also said, please don't come in here and say interpretations of the Oath of Vengeance "depend on the dm/game/setting/etc"... Yes. We know. It always does. But there wouldn't be a game without common rules and this is something that should be debated because it expressly goes...

I feel like the tenets "Fight the greater evil" and "By any means necessary" give a lot of freedom for the paladin to do extremely heinous things that are completely unsuitable for a paladin. Furthermore, even if they act completely evil, forcing them to be an "Oathbreaker" doesn't even make...

Edit December 8th: I balanced Favoritism by making it a short rest ability and adjusted a few of the combo bonuses. A number of people have commented on the potential overpoweredness of being able to use Str or Dex to attack with all weapons, and I've looked into it but the finesse aspect of...

I wrote up a Summoner Class designed around the idea of using monsters in the Monster Manual in a more interesting way than any of the options available in the rulebook. The class is pretty fleshed out and it has been used in a campaign I ran where one of the party members had lots of fun with...

If someone is multiclassing, can they use a Monk's Flurry of Blows, while wielding a heavy two handed weapon? Flurry of Blows says nothing about it your attack having to use a Monk weapon like the other rules do. So would be swinging with a Great Sword and using Flurry of Blows be fair play?

Those Illyrian creatures help. I need a few more. I'm making a "summoner" class and there just aren't enough creatures of certain types to choose from for summons (see tables at the bottom) https://docs.google.com/document/d/16C-dJrZk_pPsPZ5Nn3zdjZdCTqI7wyDzTtL9KHIIZDU/edit?usp=sharing I need...

The Monster Manual seems to be lacking in strong Fey and Celestial creatures... or many of those in general. I haven't read all the supplementary material for 5e yet, so I'm wondering if anyone knows of monsters who would fit the following challenge ratings. I need CR 1-2 Celestials (3 of...

Yeah but for lots of things you refer to the rulebook for consistencies like how far away you can see or hear something or what it means to do that... Except pretty much for telepathy. If telepathy is treated like a form of communication, it should probably be explained. The DM can change...

I wish there was consistent rules for something so subjective and ambiguous like this. Because it seems every person has a different idea for how it works.