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To each their own. These numbers are getting small enough that it doesn't make a big difference either direction. (I mean, + or -1 can be the make-or-break difference on occasion, but not so often that you'll be hitting yourself in the head for picking one or the other.)

I'm not going to argue with your logic—it is true that a cleric that goes late in the initiative order will likely go after all of his allies, in which case he can heal them right after damage is dealt. So if that's your preference, that's an effective way to handle healing. But a cleric that...

It seems that the 5e ranger (O5e or A5e) just can’t ever catch a break. Anyway, A5e is completely backward compatible, so feel free to play with O5e subclasses if your table allows it.

Amen!

@Khelben7 Satirical Bard beat me to how I would stat it, roughly, and I think he also makes good points about tweaking as needed to make the character fit your vision. I don't know what your exact vision is or what your character's story is, but if you want to maximize the natural strengths of...

Clerics are full casters with Wisdom as their primary casting stay. With that in mind, and with the knowledge that (to my memory) warpriests never get Extra Attack, I would recommend prioritizing Wisdom over Strength unless you campaign won’t get last tier 1. You’ll get a lot more mileage out of...

I like that you put your money where your mouth is. I like the original artificer, but I also have no complaints about this version. The only thing I would change are the archetypes - specifically Engineer and Stitcher. Levels where the Engineer and Stitcher only get improvements that they have...

Only had the chance this morning to skim, but I’m interested in reading more later today. Just wanted to say that I was pleasantly surprised when I found out this was a ranger archetype! Gunslinging so often defaults to fighters that I forgot to even consider ranger gunslingers, but I think it...

I find it interesting how much of this discussion on the artificer revolves around the lackluster capstone, or uses the lackluster capstone to justify criticizing the class overall, when the capstone is the last and least important of the artificer's abilities. In my perception, the various...

I like the idea of a full-caster or half-caster where all of its “spells” are at-will or recharge on a d6 features — kind of like 3.5’s warlock. That one might also be a chunk of a full book rather than a magazine article, though.

This analysis largely just confirms to me that, while I like the idea of synergy feats, I’d rather just wait for/homebrew a hybrid class, since then all the little things that don’t quite match up nicely (like not getting a second attack without severely sacrificing available creature shapes)...

This is my only complaint about this gun. If you're going to include in the weapon description a rule that lets you attack people with the grappling gun, it would have been nice to be able to grapple creatures (or objects) and pull them toward you. That princess tied up behind the...

Well, let's look at the wording for Technical Fighting. Technical Fighting (AG 186) Whenever you use a combat maneuver any damage dealt by attacks using it deal an additional 2 damage, and your maneuver DC increases by 1. For this feature, I it depends on how you interpret "using it" to mean...

I absolutely plan on having my next character be a construct. This is the most fun version I’ve seen.

I'm not certain what this would do to balancing, but I do wish the artificer archetypes that used infusions to power the upgrades for their vehicle/minions got one or two "free" infusions that must be spent on upgrades, just to help the archetypes feel like they add just as much to the base...

As everyone knows, the test issue of the Gate Pass Gazette has been released, and I have to say that I had oodles of fun reading through this thing. Hands-down, my favorite aspect was the Constructed character race—whole lot of fun to be had there. I was particularly excited for the heritage...

While I won’t pretend that I’ve read through every entry very thoroughly in the MM, it is my perception that most monster entries give good reasons for the PCs to fight them, whether or not that reason is related to alignment. Either way, maybe you’ll get lucky next edition - orcs have been...

It sounds like you really like gnolls! I'd recommend just not playing them that way at your table, then, since I doubt the Monstrous Menagerie is ever getting a rewrite—and since the player options for gnolls, at least as presented in Zeitgeist, step away from the inherent evil anyway. That...

That's entirely up to first the DM and then the players: the DM to take a more Eberron-approach to monstrous races, the players to not immediately genocide gnolls on sight even if the DM has made it clear that no race, in his/her campaign, is inherently evil. (This does require significantly...

I love a good dungeon crawl, so I’m very curious about the Dungeon Delver book - but probably more interested in the character options. Same goes for the sci-fi setting: give me new, interesting character options for me and my players and you’ll have my money, budget willing.