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You bring up some interesting points, and I'd like to address each in turn with a contrasting view:- In 5e (and since 3e), there are no 1st level MC characters. This is because of how the game mechanics work: you get one class level per character level, therefore if you only have one character...

Agreed! Totally agree! But judging whether or not a player is going to create a character to 'work well in the game' is not the same thing as 'wants to MC wizard'. It is absurd to imagine that a player who wants to play a Wiz 7 is going to 'work well in the game', but a player who wants to...

Are you suggesting that a player who wants to make his own character, according to the rules, is not allowed to do so if you wouldn't play such a PC yourself? Are you suggesting that a player who has a backstory that you didn't think of is an entitled snowflake out to mess with your carefully...

And that's the point. You can have all these ideas about wizards and the reasons why they can't/don't MC, but you made that up! It's not THE TRUTH about either wizards or MCing to anyone else, so it's not a valid reason to stop other players from doing it because they might have come up with...

Responsibility for PCs making sense is on the players. If the player cannot make sense of, say, a Pal/War multi-class, then don't do it. But if a player can make sense of it, then multi-class away! That's how it should be. But on this thread and others, I see a depressing tendency of, "I...

It's a totally useless spell... ....and then I found a use for it. My current PC is built around armour of agathys while taking half damage while Raging. He started out Bar 1, then took War 5 (fiendish bladepact), is now taking it up to Bar 3/War 5, and then warlock all the way. The usual...

Yeah, playing him is enormous fun! There is much more to him than game stats, but as a recommendation for how to get the most from armour of agathys then the specifics about the rest of my PC are not relevant. It just needs to be said that the guy plays like a melee fighter. He has no damaging...

If you don't want to be bothered by edge cases, then follow the actual rules! In this case, the actual rules are easy, because the things that end the spell early on not based on mere opinion (such as what an individual DM 'feels' should happen, or how that DM would've written the spell if they...

Another way is Rage, for the resistance to damage. My current PC is built around armour of agathys. Bar 2/War 5 (started with Bar 1, then got 5 levels of warlock up to Bar 1/War 5, then I'll go 2 more barbarian for Bar 3/War 5, and then warlock all the way to Bar 3/War 17), Fiendish bladepact...

"A Monster Is Just a Pet You Haven't Tamed Yet!" A great motto for an optimistic 1st level adventurer. Come back in 10 levels and see if the motto has changed to, "If it moves, hit it with everything we've got!"

Why can it be retrained for a cleric spell but not a sorcerer spell? I'm AFB ATM. It could be unbalanced, if done without care for how much of an increase in power extra spells known gives. For the spells known you get from feats, it costs a feat! A feat which could have instead given you...

It might seem OP, but you'll soon realise that it's not an issue. It would be an issue for a prepared caster, who just doubled the range of spells to choose to prepare from each morning, but for a class with a (small) fixed number of spells known, once those spells are chosen then you are stuck...

Them's fightin' words. Go for your lever!

Ring of Sustenance: Love! I think that if I could get any magic item to use in my real, actual life, then this is the one! Never have to spend money on food (but you still can if you want). Watching your figure? No problem! Only need to sleep 2 hours per night! Think of all the things I could do...

I'm quoting you, not because I necessarily agree/disagree with your post, but because you bring up things I want to talk about. :D I don't see an either/or here. PCs are not either forged in play or designed on paper, they are all both. This reminds me of the Stormwind Fallacy. For me, both...

If the warlock has, say, three eldritch blast beams that occur 'instantly', then by the time the reacting creature wants to run away round a corner, all three beams have already resolved! The target isn't reacting to the 'first beam' only (before the second and third beams) because all three...

Obviously d12 is top, d20 second. If I could downvote then it would be the d10. It's not even a platonic solid! It's an interloper, a cheater, a crutch that we don't need. Back when I was alive we had a die with 20 faces numbered 0 to 9, twice. It might be that one set of 0 to 9 had a little +...

If that were true then mirror image could protect you from ANY spell that targets you, like charm person, hex, slow etc. Then it would be a 6th level spell, not 1st level. There are spells that you need to 'aim' in a way like a sniper looking down the barrel of his rifle. If his cross-hairs...

No. Magic missile cannot be fooled because it is not sentient; does not make decisions of any kind. According to the spell, "each missile hits a creature that you can see". The spell not only has no effect on images, it is not possible to target images with this spell, it can only target...

An interesting note is that this is a rule that says one thing (if 'bonus action spell' then 'no other non-cantrip spell) but that the rules definitely mean BOTH that AND if 'non-cantrip spell' then 'no bonus action spell'. It's equivalent to saying 'if Attack Action' then ' bonus action shield...