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Putting the Hobo in Murderhobo?

I like Mearls, but the dude should wear a pirate hat. He’s got the oddest bald spot.

In the words of the question being asked, story. Like feats, multiclassing is (in my opinion) used to add new abilities when the limitations of a single class don’t cover the full range of the character envisioned. It’s a waste to use to use those game tools to specialize/focus on one element...

And this is why Insurance Adjuster is the best character Background...

I agree with the logic here. There’s also the simple consistency. AC is simply a difficulty class to hit (or to represent a hit that does damage); the d20 DC system indeed is built out of the AC system (once it was flipped from the original naval war game descending-AC track to the modern...

Another option is to use the infinite nature of the Abyss to have some entity quietly taken control of a “vacant” level and mess with the souls trafficking through. After all, Orcus can’t be the only major demon or demon lord who’s gotten a handle on controlling undead.

What always strikes me is the Guide Logic of “never multiclass until after fifth level” because of second attacks or ASIs or such. Never being the number-cruncher sort (multiclassing for me personally is always about expanding abilities rather than further specializing, plus I have a history...

Not a point on specific mechanics, but in general mechanics. Describing the various points of developed settings in 5e might mean developing some of the area that we’re stressed more early one but haven’t seen the expansion of races and classes: factions and feats. I don’t play AL, but I know...

Meanwhile, my group who grew up on 1st Edition broke out our new 3.0 books literally on day one and started making characters almost specifically based on what had returned after being excised from 2nd Edition. I loved that monk...

re:Dragonlance, I’d agree with those saying Palanthus. It’s the major port city fought over by powers (Solamnics, Istarians, Drafonarmies, Nerakans, the One God) in the books. It’s the home of the Library of Astinius and the Tower of High Sorcery (with its Shoikan Grove). Its entrance is guarded...

If a Tyrannosaurus fights with a glaive, do they go up to a full five-foot reach with their tiny baby arms?

When it starts talking about Tactical Area and Tactical Insight, all I can think is that it just needs to borrow the basic Aura rules of the Paladin but offer different effects (the 4e Warlord being an evolution of the aura-based 3.5 Marshall), with an increase in the number of known and active...

I dislike milestone XP because it requires characters to be the same level and be leveling together. That both limits the numbers of characters in play and hastens the approach of those asinine high-levels (which no RPG, much less any D&D edition, has ever done well). Although much has changed...

“Race,” in games such as D&D, actually has a proper meaning that can’t be replaced with Species or Culture (or fully with Ancestry). If you read any of background materials on the various worlds that the game has produced or watch the recent D&D Beyond videos talking current multiversal...

I’d take a look at how War Magic combines Abjuration and Evocation with battle-related special abilities and build a subclass roughly on that formula. Perhaps Conjuration and Transmution in this case with dimensional special abilities that serve to protect the wizard in planar or elemental...

The class about FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE really should involve knowledge a lot more. I can see Bards being Charisma casters (with Intelligence as a secondary of sorts in their lore abilities), but Warlocks should absolutely be an Intelligence-based class (yes, the rare sort can trick the Devil, or...

Wait...you mean he’s actually just telling us about his home campaign, like he’s suggesting that he is!? *head explodes*

I suppose that the question is whether there’s a hunger for “a big campaign setting release” or just a gluttony for it, that rote expectation from previous editions that this is what we should expect (regardless of how overly full we get trying to digest it all for our games). I certainly see a...

I’m surprised by these answers. In various campaigns over thirty years (run by and for people who’ve never met each other), it’s been a constant that games — regardless of edition — don’t even have combat in most sessions, rather focusing either on social interaction or dungeon exploration...

I’m with Vymair on this, although I think it could also be a cover for his roguery that he’s terrible at but just loves too much to give up (think of every tone deaf drunk hitting the karaoke bar each weekend with stars in their eyes).