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For my games I've ruled that it is the following: Hoopak. Martial Weapon. 1d6 damage of either bludgeoning (staff/sling) or piercing (spear). The player can use it as either a sling, quarterstaff, or spear, switching which weapon they wield as a bonus action. It lacks the versatile trait or...

It varies for me depending on the tone and setting of a game. I'm much less likely to run a gritty low magic game or something like a rendition of the Christian God as something that can be directly interacted with. That said, I tend to default/prefer a bit of a combination of your Channeled...

Respectfully, ALL characters receive a great benefit from a high charisma. When we are specifically talking about what makes a good party leader and hero who inspires others through words, the most important thing *IS* perficiency in persuasion and a high charisma. Except that the fighter...

Your poll is inherently flawed for a couple reasons. First, it heavily favors the paladin or the bard as the elimination of feats and non-players handbook subclasses *completely* neuters the fighter in pretty much all possible versions of the archetypical "hero". The entire advantage the...

Past 6th level or so the game becomes less about whether or not the players are hit, but how many blows they can survive. The issue isnt thst a CR 6 creature has trouble hitting players, but that you are expecting a CR 6 creature to represent a threat by itself. A party of characters can...

According to the rules as written, no. That said, it is not unheard of in various versions of fiction or mythology revolving around medusa for their victims to become unpetrofied when the medusa that turned them is slain. That said, whether or not the statues are still in one piece is the...

The trick is to remember that con isnt just used in combat. Want the "con guy" to shine? Rope the party into a drinking contest, have obstacles in the environment that call for con checks (cold/hot weather, swimming long times, mold/poisons that call for con saves), or have enemies use poisons...

In the unearthed arcana for racial feats, they originally gave dragonborn 20ft flight as a racial feat, though I dont think it made the final cut of xanathars. I still allow it as a feat in my games, and honestly, 30ft fight wouldn't be unreasonable. There is a tiefling racial variant that gets...

All good. I still think CoS is my favorite 5th ed module to date. I could also had a bit of more complication to the equation and suggest you take a look at monster hunter/slayer(?) Ranger found in Xanathar's guide of you haven't. While you'd have no cantrips and be wisdom based for casting it...

Any DM worth his salt should be able to work and adapt the game to any party. Ravenloft/Barovia as a setting is often one highly trending toward social encounters and combat not being the major focus of the game anyway. It's kind of up to the tone of whatever the DM want as though. 5th edition...

You give up tanking, but end up being better than a paladin st healing. It feels a lot like a paladin, but more "caster-y". I've seen it in practice with the player using his subclass features to heal the same way a paladin uses lay on hands, and then saving his spell slots for either healing or...

Personally I'd be perfectly fine with allowing a player to use indomitable to reroll any ability check. Thematically I've always interpreted the ability as "I'm too stubborn to fail this save" anyway, so one could make a reasonable arguement in many cases that they somehow supernaturally assert...

An alternative you could consider, if you are genuinely worried about lack of healing, is a Celestial patron warlock with pact of the blade. It may not be as optimal as a hexblade warlock, or eldritch blast spammer, but combined with green flame blade, it has got loads of flavor, the ability to...

It's sort of already been said about the pros and cons. For myself I tend to save riddles strictly for providing hints or extra information about other challenges, rather than making the riddle itself the challenge. I means that solving the riddle remains useful, but does not bring the game to a...

And I would argue from your spell selection that you have just rolled a FIRE sorcerer. See my previous post about how there are two sorcerer specs that are leaps and bounds more effective than any other. Show me how to roll a blaster build that is just as effective focused around the element of...

The Evocationist wizard begs to differ, albeit I'll concede we are mostly talking about higher levels that most tables never reach and while I'd never suggest that someone playing a wizard to blast is "doing it wrong", the class offers so much more in terms of utility and battlefield support...

I fully agree and any DM worth playing with will be open to allowing either a metamagic that changes the element, a player to pick any spell element (aka chromatic orb) for any evocation spell as a flat change, or learn alternative damage element versions of spells. This doesn't help with...

The problem is comes from several issues: First, sorcerers are presented as being masters at manipulating raw magic through metamagic that no others are supposed to be able to do yet the metamagic options are limited as the sorcerer does not get enough to not just pick the couple that are the...

Tweak it to the following: d20 - attack d12 greataxe d10 superiority die from battlemaster fighter of the required level d8 - from green flame blade cantrip (gain through a racial or spell initiate: warlock feat) d6 gain from hex (using the same feat d4 gain from either being enlarged, or...

This certainly true. The Knight Orders are basically Jedi and Sith, and the Gods (whom they serve for much of the setting) could basically be compared to the Force. They are basically handled in universe the same and I often use star wars as a good comparison to if for my players. Of course this...