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I used to think that dedicated healers were necessary, but O5e is designed in a way that it’s more useful to have one or two characters that can pop someone up after they go down (or just stabilize them quickly) and then get back to damage - a dead enemy deals less damage than a living one...

Nice review! My only feedback: I think certain maneuvers along the lines of Eye Slash might seem crappy to a fighter, with its massive pool of known maneuvers, extra attacks, and increased pace of learning maneuvers, but to other classes they are quite useful. When you max out at one attack -...

All hail the king of at-will damage! This thread is a continuation of a previous thread, correcting Eldritch Disturbance's damage. I will provide the updated chart below, along with some observations that were much quicker than the ones I made last time: Quick Notes: In my mind, I categorize...

How close are we?

So Mythological Figures is out in PDF, but Zeitgeist will wait until after layout is finished? That makes sense.

My new favorite suite of magic items are the many gremlin items in the Trials and Treasures books. They aren't particularly competent, but they do their best to give you good service. You can bet that adapted versions of these critters are going to make an appearance in every campaign I run from...

Thanks for sharing! I'm really curious how your "Eldritch Armor" works. My version—well, the two different options—was born of the following: A desire to provide multiple comparable class options at more levels, which seems to be general A5e design that I quite like A desire to give martial...

First of all, thanks for the feedback! :) Absolutely true! Here's the reasoning behind it to see if I can change your mind about potential balance. Using spell points to fuel maneuvers has an analogue with heralds using spell slots to fuel maneuvers, so this idea already exists in A5e. Both...

Warlock, hands down. The new Eldritch Blast options, spell points, dramatically increased versatility through an even bigger focus on invocations, Pact of the Blade fixes, A5e’s general increased focus on short rests thanks to martial classes and exertion…

The total damage that Eldritch Whip does in a single turn is converted to temporary HP, so Noxious Invigoration would only be applied once.

Fun. I expect knowing that the Construct heritage is coming was probably very exciting, then—or, at the bare minimum, a relief in that it's one less heritage to do a full design for! Same situation with Artificer.

Ah, that sounds like incredible fun. I've always hoped to create content in a more official format, but unfortunately it takes too much time and resources away from my other interests. That's exciting! Any particular theme, or just writing down ideas as they come?

I guess a final note from the author: the final features of this archetype, Baleful Blows and Muster the Damned, probably need limited uses per day to be balanced properly. I get that. But the warlock is the one class built almost exclusively around at-will and short rest abilities. I just get...

Disclaimer: A5e is a new system and I don't claim to have an expert grasp of it. After reading through the core rulebooks I had some ideas for warlock archetypes that I put together, and this is my favorite so far. If you like it, if you hate it, any feedback is appreciated, but in particular...

That's all the blessing I needed.

This post is directed toward the moderators of this thread as much as the active participants. I know that A5e is brand new and everyone is still discovering the system and figuring out everything it can do, but I can't get homebrew ideas and not at least put them to paper and do my best to make...

I am so accustomed to completely ignoring Noxious Invigoration that I completely forgot that it buffs Eldritch Whip. Not an incredible buff, but if I somehow have an open Invocation and I'm using Eldritch Whip then I'll definitely take something over nothing. Also, it's a good thing that...

I think this is the most important point—while it might be annoying now, the game designers are clearly hedging their bets on A5e being supported for a while, which I like to see.

I like it! I am a little sad that the Berserker no longer has any consistent options (that I'm aware of) for getting Advantage regularly and crit fishing for those glorious Furious Criticals, but, as an option intended to be available for every character, this seems very good.

As far as I am aware, any ability that forces a save has to specifically state that you can choose to fail it, RAW, but there are also many circumstances where I think it's reasonable for the Narrator to let you choose to fail a save anyway.