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The class, seems weak in theory. In flat planes of perfectly smooth 5’ squares, with no features, and monsters that ‘spawn’ always in melee range, then yes that ‘terrain* does not help the class to shine. CleverNickName, I don’t mean this rudely at all, but you are missing the*point* of the...

Diviners are pretty durable. Cast Spaming Absorb Elements or Shield through the Expert Divination subclass ability, and Arcane Recovery equals a substantial amount of damage mitigation. My first 5e campaign, which began after the initial release of the books, included a first time player...

Or a Cleric of Trickery. Being a one person: "Stealth Party" in a box is one of the principle reasons I chose the subclass. Blessing of the Trickster, lets one negate the Disadvantage to Stealth checks that armor often applies, and the subclass always has Pass w/o Trace....as well as Charm...

I must have been unclear, as I am absolutely NOT saying "everyone must use relative morality". what I am saying is: The game has to be able to Support Relative Morality. Hardwired assumptions like "Papa Smurf always says: Orcs are evil" can not be the only modality that is supported, or...

Thanks, Umbran for not saying " You are wrong and I dont care what you think" :) It is a logical inference. I could spend days running truth tables and trying to represent the inference in analytical logical notation, but frankly it would be too much effort, and 99.9% would not be interested...

By RAW, it works. While the words Semi and Partially are not synonyms...the 1 minute duration of Illusionary Reality covers the Semi verbiage for me. The much longer duration of the Simulacrum spell, covers the difference for Partial. If one elects to treat the effect, as similar to a...

At 3rd level the Inquisitive Rogue is doing 13 points of damage with a Shotbow and Sneak Attack and 16 Dex. This is nearly on par with a Greatsword Fighter. The lack of extra attacks, does hinder a Rogue’s DPS over time, but a Rogue is like a Predator drone, able to strike with lethal...

I had the same considerations as your player, when I received an opportunity to play a character, with a group of players new to the hobby. I decided to go with a Dragonmarked House of Shadow Elf as a race, and for a class I chose to be a Cleric of Trickery. Having a 18 Dex, proficiency in...

This line just made me snort whisky out my nose. As the whisky was Midleton Very Rare, I am now, simultaneously, very amused, and a little pissed off. Well done Leatherhead!

I’ve been wary about Psionics in 5e, and have not really liked what has been produced before, but I really like this. Psi Dice is a creative design, and pushes the design space of the system as a whole. That alone is priceless. Mind Sliver is a great cantrip...it deals damage and includes the...

You stumped me! 😄 So in the middle of combat, the druid enters the beholder’s dreams and woos, weds, and ‘beds’ it? Man that is one form of action economy! I think I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. Since Beholders are rumored to be notoriously xenophobic, it might just reject...

Sigh...I was full of questions, as your point and intent were unclear. Questions answered, you just seem full of rage.🤯🌋 I forgive you, times are tough. This is your response?!? Otay, dude..keep on rockin those non-sequiturs. The fact is, that above, you stated I said the opposite of what...

In Queen of the Black Coast, Conan joins the Pirate Queen, whom is, indisputably, slaughtering whole villages for booty, just slaughtered the entire crew of the Argus, the vessel that rescued him from an unnamed city, under, I might add, the threat of Conan, saying: “By Crom, man, if you don’t...

I would say this instead: “One other simple answer to all of this. What role do monsters, including orcs, fill in the fiction of YOUR game.” A good game, is a good game, regardless if you are playing a 1e style..Goblinoids (including Orcs) are irredeemably evil, or an Eberron style, all...

How is my analysis of my own personal reasons for leaving 2nd Edition ‘dubious’. Are you, @bild91 claiming I am not self aware? Are you claiming that 5e D&D should only support One Style of Gaming? I’m not now, nor have ever, said that. Neither has Oofta, from what I have read from his posts...

I want to say thank you Oofta, for sharing your views. This is an interesting discussion. I hope everyone, feels safe in expressing their viewpoint. In my view, if the sentence quoted above is true, then the Objective Moral Reality inherent to D&D is an existential threat to the game’s...

I would, kindly suggest it is, A standard, in fantasy, (and indeed a prominent banner), but not the sole banner. The Song of Roland, in the character of Fierabas, the Saracen Knight, has a conversion of a character from ‘evil’ to ‘good’, by the moral terms of the work’s ethical framework. The...

Nah, I can mute a player on Zoom. It is much harder in real life. I might switch to Zoom permanently just due to this alone.

To be fair, it is not super hearing. Merely the graphic equalizer that is the brain, edits out the noise for many, and for a lucky few not at all or very little. I can identify with this. I also can identify with this. That was, in my opinion a terrible movie, and not just for it’s...

Oofta, that is not even true in Minnesota, let alone in ancient legal codes. Manslaughter is not Murder, plenty of people are charged with manslaughter after directly killing someone. Hamurabi’s code does not consider the killing of female children, ‘murder’, more like destruction of property...