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True, but it is a single die every turn, so it adds up. I think the Monk needs all the help it can get for dealing with MAD.

Well, the Crossbow Expert feat is pretty tasty and you can't get that for Slings or Darts.

TBH, I think the oversight is probably going to end up being the Rogue's Proficiency being "Martial Weapons that have the Finesse Property" rather than "Martial Weapons that have the Finesse or Light Property," when we see the print version.

That's true, but you are sacrificing an attack's worth of damage per turn, and two attacks a turn if you either dip or get Weapon Master. You raise a good point, although I had forgotten about the Weapon Master feat, so there is a way to get Nick without dipping and delaying your Monk...

Overall, I think this was a huge improvement on UA6 and 2014. There's still a few odd interactions and things that I have questions about: The free version of Patient Defense doesn't really evoke the fantasy of the martial artist pulling a Neo very well. I get that giving Dodge for only a Bonus...

That's certainly the oldest version, but I don't think it's the whole of the story. Peter Cushing didn't have a prohibition on edged/bladed weapons, after all - that's just straight out of (inaccurate) medieval history/historical fiction about Bishop Odo, Archbishop Turpin, Julius II, etc.

I don't think I agree with this: I think if we look to AD&D 2nd Edition, we can see Zeb Cook getting more explicit about what was already implicit in earlier editions of D&D (i.e, why did Clerics have level names drawn from real-world religions in 1e, why are 1e Clerics "forbidden to use edged...

I'm surprised that no one's brought up the change to PC species as something that might affect world-building.

True, but the Egyptians were trying to keep the head in decent nick for preservation later; the Illithid is doing more of a quick slurp and then toss it away once you’re done, like an empty Capri Sun.

Did you ever read about how ancient Egyptian embalmers would use a special tool to drag the brain out through the nasal cavity to prepare a body for mummification? Think that, but the tool is fully prehensile.

I've come around on the Shadar-Kai since they were useful in providing that last extra je ne sais quoi for an Elf Shadow Monk, because sometimes Wood Elf fits mechanically but not thematically.

To be honest, if you want to do evil elves, I think you do them like Warhammer Fantasy do them: they're a culture, not a race, they look just like the "good ones" because they're the result of a civil war in elven society, and they're evil because they're a pointed meta-commentary on the darker...

I feel like it doesn't hugely matter how you arrange the individual elements - you could have Bonus Action Flurry and Reaction Patient Defense/Step of the Wind, you could have Attack Flurry and then Bonus Patient Defense/Step of the Wind, etc. - as long as you're able to do one offensive and one...

I agree, particularly about "the close to being good." The monk has a lot of the tools it needs already in its kit; the problem is that they're chokepointed on action economy and their resource pool, so they can't use a lot of their tools the way they're supposed to. Mostly, what the monk needs...

I'm disagreeing with this part: "Jeremy said they're going back to the drawing board, but didn't give any details on how they might change." Jeremy gave several details about how they might change the monk. (He also didn't say they were going back to the drawing board, btw.)

That's not accurate. In the most recent video where they discussed the Monk, Jeremy mentioned that they were looking at the Discipline Point system because it was being too restrictive so that they're looking into both decreasing DP costs and making some abilities DP-free to use, and went on to...

So here are some of the character concepts I'm working with for 5e: - Thomas Rhymer, Half-Elf Arcane Trickster Rogue/Blade Pact Fey Warlock, Charlatan, unwilling Champion of the Duchess of the Dark Side of the Moon: a conman and expert forger with an obsession with magic and magical artifacts...

I think the Battlemaster actually has a good deal of Warlord functionality - the underlying problem is the Dice regeneration, but that's equally applicable to would-be defender Battlemasters, swashbuckler Battlemasters, charger Battlemasters, etc. Seems to me that if your SD regenerated every...

If you want to go the Full Cap, here's what I'd recommend (in addition to what's been said: Feats: Shield Master Sentinel Inspiring Leader Dex Fighter: Protection-Style Battlemaster - get Commander's Strike, Distracting Strike, Goading Attack, Maneuvering Attack, Rally The sad thing is that...

I was thinking it would be more like the Warblade in terms of resource management, but the 1 action = 1 dice is making me a bit nervous. And I'm really not sure how it interfaces with extra attacks.