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    D&D 5E (2024) Command is the Perfect Encapsulation of Everything I Don't Like About 5.5e

    Possibly caught in an edit, but the command was "autodefenestrate".
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    D&D 5E (2024) How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules

    Sorry pal, best I can do is a wordpad document. That'll be $5 a month on top of the books you bought a second time.
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    D&D 5E (2024) How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules

    All this money going in, and the platform is still hot garbage for actually running a game. Can you add a custom new class? No. Can you make a custom invocation? No. Can you do basic stuff like make a longsword that deals 2d8 or give a character an extra death save box? No. Want to make a scroll...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Command is the Perfect Encapsulation of Everything I Don't Like About 5.5e

    DM's HATE it! 10 Commands that will allow you to dominate any encounter. You won't believe number 7! (Number 7 is "Autodefenestrate")
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    D&D 5E (2024) Command is the Perfect Encapsulation of Everything I Don't Like About 5.5e

    That's exactly what Command boils down to. Looking up some cheesy BS list of commands on Reddit to make a 1st level spell more powerful than a 3rd+ level spell. It's not clever play despite all the backpatting going on in this thread. There really isn't anything clever about virtually any D&D...
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D 2024 Rules Oddities (Kibbles’ Collected Complaints)

    They got rid of them because the d20 is too big a spread, and 5E has decided to basically remove the benefits of training, because god forbid a first level pud not have a decent chance of hitting Orcus. So you'd have 8 strength wieners routinely escaping grapples by 20+ strength grapplers just...
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    Spoilers Alien: Questions

    This has always been my thoughts. You have a species capable of interstellar travel and their MO is to go shoot fish in a barrel with cheat codes? Either these guys are the truck nuts of the galaxy or it's some tough guy tourism that has one iron clad liability waiver given like 90% of their...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Influence Action

    I honestly don't think D&D players as a whole are willing/capable of accepting social outcomes/stakes that this would require. It's going to be "nuh uh, my guy would never be tricked/intimidated/whatever". People couldn't even understand how Come and Get it was an abstraction of something done...
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    D&D 5E (2024) With Nick Weapon mastery do both weapons need to be nick to use it or only the first or only the 2nd?

    I don't believe so, as that is a Magic action you make an attack with, not an Attack action. I readily admit my understanding of TWF/Neck is not great right now though!
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    D&D 5E (2024) Influence Action

    That's what advantage is for I think. Or the ol floating +/-2 bonus/penalty, the DM's friend. Very few NPC's actually have those though, certainly not Gart the Guard #4. These are fine for general guidelines.
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    D&D 5E (2024) I just got a 2024 PHB From Gen Con. AMA!

    How do True Strike and Sheleighleigh work now? True Strike gives scaling damage I'd assume at 5/11/17. I'm guessing it's just for one attack. Does Sheleighleigh give any bonus damage also?
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Spell Changes

    How do True Strike and Sheleighleigh work now? True Strike gives scaling damage I'd assume at 5/11/17. I'm guessing it's just for one attack. Does Sheleighleigh give any bonus damage also?
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    D&D 5E (2024) I just got a 2024 PHB From Gen Con. AMA!

    Sure, but now it's just same/worse damage than EB spam with way less investment and risk.
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Spell Changes

    OK, so it's pretty bad before extra attack. You need to hit 4 times to match the damage of a 1st level smite. And even then the smite is favored because frontloaded damage is almost always preferrable. I like my DOT's to pull ahead on round 3 at the latest.
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Spell Changes

    Wait, they went from 2d8 for a 1st level slot to 1d4?! Yeah, we ain't swapping to that. My wife plays a paladin and I need to sleep in the house.
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Spell Changes

    Most 5e combats struggle to go over 3 rounds. So that's 3d4 (7.5) at 1st, 6d4 (15) at 5th level for a 1st level slot, though odds are good one or two attacks miss. Damage up front should be worth more than damage later, so the expected damage output of Divine Favor should exceed that of a...
  17. J

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Spell Changes

    How much does the new baseline 1st level Divine Smite deal?
  18. J

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Spell Changes

    Dear lord I'd forgotten Hail of Thorns used concentration. A 2nd level spell slot for d10 save for half is abysmal.
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    D&D 5E (2024) I just got a 2024 PHB From Gen Con. AMA!

    For Great Weapon Master, is the proficiency bonus to damage bonus for all attacks or just one per turn?
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