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There are plenty of suggestions here that might be epic mounts for a singular hero, no doubt. However, I think it is important to keep in mind the actual challenges of choosing what they could use as a mount. First, it would be an animal that can live underground in cramped quarters in...

It is absolutely adorable that the moderators on this site feel it is their personal purpose in life to mindlessly protect WotC from any criticism at all. Even more so than when WotC was running their own boards. So putting what I previously stated a bit more diplomatically. Electronic game...

Look-- as far as the Ranger class goes, they done well screwed up. Not the only thing in the game they have utterly screwed up by far. But at the same time, they have too big of an ego and regularly pleasure themselves to their own superiority above all other imagined game designers to ever...

Maybe a Ranger/Paladin or a Barbarian/Rogue? Basically the same problem here-- your classes are trying to make you use very different weapons and fighting styles and the class abilities directly counter one another. But, really, I wonder if mixing together any of the primarily spell-casting...

When I refered to what earlier editions said, it was limited to the concept of "a single round attack does not equate to a single swing of an object, but is the amount of damage you would be able to do over a 6-second window of time" and had nothing to do with the unarmed attack. Why I object...

No. In chess terms it is more like "I am going to use my king as my primary offensive piece and in that way protect my king" I get that maybe you don't use your brain much and consider it and the rest of your head, as inconsequentially as expendible as a pawn. But for those of us that can be...

To be entirely honest, I have no idea if it exists explicably stated in the rules within the current edition. However, it was explicably written as being the case in 2nd edition and, if I am not mistaken, 3rd edition. Look, you can argue for the silliness of things in the world being interpreted...

I think it is worth remembering though.... Hobgoblin tribes or clans or nations if you like... they are really spread quite far apart. As a people they don't all occupy a single terrain anyway. Volo's statements are a subjective view of one or maybe the collective impression of a view hobgoblin...

Yes, the bite-- and honestly, the scaley skin, abilities are pretty much useless in any situation where you are going to be armed and equipped ideally to your desire. Basically all classes have better options to choose from presuming you can pick out and have your ideal equipment at any time...

Nope. Rogues already get all finesse martial weapons and light armor automatically. Yes, you can buy a long bow if you really, really want to-- but if you intend to be casting spells, having a heavy, two-handed ranged weapon is not as ideal as the one-handed light martial ranged weapon you...

Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Monk, Rogue, Bard... basically anything that is going to be in melee range and is likely to lose hit points. I mean, I figure the closest thing we get to this is races that grant one a cantrip or 1st level spell. Is dealing 1d6+Str damage on a melee attack in...

The person who wrote this is well... VERY bad at designing characters. You've got to be a bit dense to advise someone to play using Volo's inept Hobgoblin write-up as literally anything but a Wizard. If you go for a Martial melee Class, you are way better off going for well... anything out of...

For the Tabaxi, the unarmed attack is kind of like being armed with a dagger even if you get disarmed or stripped down or ambushed in the middle of the night. But if the Lizardfolk bite does 1d6 and can be used as a bonus attack, and gives you bonus HP to boot, it might be a little too good...

I wasn't speaking so much of the OP as the general notion I seem to be seeing that one should use the bonus feat to buy a two-handed heavy weapon, but since getting the most mileage out of that requires a bit investment in Strength Page 203 - Somatic components says you must have at least one...

Pretty much all the races in Volo's guide could really use a redo. It feels like they weren't playtested at all before being churned out-- they decided to make the first draft of the random thoughts and wonky abilities getting spit up onto the page and then rushed out for print. Because that PC...

You know-- it is worth noting that language is not simply "words". That a ton of what people say is carried in the tone and the stress on words tends to be different depending on where the word is being used in a sentence and the intention it is conveying. Even the most basic sentence. The cat...

For a good number of races, at least the core 4, this is more feasible in the current edition of D&D than in any previous edition. A few others beyond that could still be considered races where you could make a party where you cover your basic tank-DPS-healer paradigm or even, as 4E put it...

I am really surprised at the really bad job people do at figuring this stuff out. Okay, first-- for a Wizard? Strength is absolutely worthless. You couldn't wear armor or use a shield if you wanted to! As long as you can carry your gear, you are fine with a 8 Strength and it will never come...

Mountain Orcs live in colder regions, particularly those that get lots of snow and other races aren't hardy enough to effectively occupy without a lot of trouble. They naturally come out of those area in order to raid the easy to take supply from the softer races once in a while, but they are so...

That's great, but that's you and only you. You are but one of tens of thousands of people running a D&D game. Quoting an initiative system that is not found within the books.... you may as well be arguing that Elves don't get a Dexterity boost in D&D because the personal houserules that you and...