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Essentially ending the encounter by having the goblins flee, or cower, or surrender is fine. Having the goblins respond with advanced tactics tailored to take advantage of a very specific short circuit to the rage ability requires some in game justification, in my opinion. Hardened goblin...

Flamestrike, that is focusing on flavor text that is meaningless. My decision to include an admittedly superfluous Star Wars reference was an attempt to add a laugh to a long post. By not addressing the rules portion of the post, should we assume capitulation on the points stated? The Arcane...

Yep, just like a Shove Attack is an attack. In my opinion the flavor restrictions for the barbarian, in almost every edition the class has appeared in, are too harsh, or have elements that are often ignored or forgotten. A player that looses Rage due to the DM having all the Goblins hide for...

The rules for Objects in the DMG, (pg 246), states this about Objects: For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book,table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects. So, (to me), an Arcane...

That seems, uncouth. The turret is powerful enough, even before ruling it doesn’t need line of effect. The player of the Artificer constantly changes the appearance and Role Play description, so pure efficiency is not always an option..(alas 😀)

A tiny sized magical object can easily be considered to be within the weight capacity of the Mage Hand cantrip. My group has used that to pass the baton, as it were. Typically to play “keep away” if enemy spell casters get close to the Protector Cannon. Also,Tenser’s Floating Disk is tailor...

That is all true..but I’ve seen a Fighter try to lasso a Manticore, and need a timely expenditure of an Inspiration point by another PC, (as well as a plaintive plea to be allowed to act out of turn), to cast the Guidance cantrip to keep the Fighter from being carried aloft. Having Advantage...

Or lead poisoning from their smelting process, I could imagine. Odin wants two things, your foreman’s life, and unfortunately your impulse control. Forget about the egg cracking Say No to Drugs video from yore symbolizing one’s brain on drugs, you brain on lead or other metal contaminates can...

ohh it was not meant as a point of dispute, but of politeness. It was intended in the same spirit as informing someone their shoe is un tied.

I agree with this completely. Raging to get “over the top” in an arm wrestling contest, should be a valid use. A rare social pillar win for the Barbarian should be an event that is encouraged.

That is certainly how the Artillerist I play with approaches the class. High twenties damage on a ranged cantrip at 5th level is fairly nice. The Artillerist keeps an Infused Handaxe, just in case he needs to melee....came in handy when we encountered a Rakshasa.

Exactly...or gnaw on one’s shield for a mouth full of splinters and the same effect. Barbarians can use all the help they can get. damn...Paul beat me to it 😄

Barbarians are fairly resilient at 1st level. Armor plus shield or Unarmored Defense, (if you have the stats), nets around a 17 AC. The monsters run around the AC 19-20 Fighter with a shield, the Barbarian at least is a good target. Also a 5 minute work day, 1st level adventure is not that...

Can we tent the site for racists like a house from termites? Sigh, someone just stated that Asian Americans don’t count as Asian. Sorry gallows humor. I would never say a differing viewpoint is illegitimate, but when you ask some the posters to explain their viewpoints...their intent seems to...

Derren, please tell me you are a rogue heuristic algorithm that instead of looking at cat pictures wound up on 8chan and got confused....it would be comforting. Earlier today, in another thread, I stated that I did not think you were unkind. I was clearly mistaken. I rescind that statement...

Doc, I don’t believe this is correct. A tiny cannon can be held in a hand, but does not have to be. Either a small or tiny cannon can have legs. Snippets from the subclass: can take an action to magically create a Small or Tiny eldritch cannon in an unoccupied space on a horizontal surface...

Sadly this truism, is just not true...at least not in the realm of ideas. The more an idea is repeated, the more it is believed and accepted. Sadly, this seems to apply Even when falsehoods are stated in circumstances that should emphasize the ridiculousness of the position. I have Jewish...

To be fair, that also seems to be apt descriptor for any of the classes in D&D. The salient difference, to my mind, is D&D is called just Fantasy, and OA is highlighted as “Oriental Fantasy”, which implies some sort of inherent difference. All fantasy, regardless of the region of origin or...

Politely, is there a way, you might rephrase this to a term more conducive for honest discussion, and less likely to engender an emotional reaction? In my experience, persons from Scandinavia, indeed Scandinavia itself, are generally considered in a positive context in Occidental cultures. If...

This is a quote from Orcslayer78, from this thread. Since Orcslayer was moderated out, I am posting it manually: Extremists are never satisfied, they want only the complete desctruction of an hobby finding every small invented reason to be outraged. The phrasing “invented reason”, is probably...