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Honestly I'd vastly prefer to Sorcerers to get a 3rd (and maybe 4th) Metamagic at 7th level instead and push the "Two metamagic at once" to 10th level. It makes more sense both thematically and mechanically as waiting until 10th level to get a 3rd meta magic is a REALLY long time, and it adds to...

So here's the thing. I get that it's frustrating to have the wrong spells prepared, or to on occasion forget to prepare a spell or two that could be situationally useful. But guess what? That's the trade off for having the best spell list in the game. Would I prefer it if they kept the arcane...

I for one would love this as a concept for all the specialists to be rolled into one archetype that just augments your spells of a certain school. It does open up for more development room, like making a wizard who specializes in staves or wands or something. This is all particularly...

And I, for one, will still be rolling Strength based paladins, while laughing the entire time as the DM of people who think making parties with all Dex and Cha characters is a great idea right up until they meet their true archnemeses: stuck doors, puzzles that require strength checks to solve...

The biggest problem I have with the new grapple rolls is that it's against AC. It makes no sense to me that a bear should be easier to grapple than a house cat.

The biggest problem I have with the new grapple rolls is that it's against AC. It makes no sense to me that a bear should be easier to grapple than a house cat.

Precisely, though I think the point of it was pointing out that it would mesh well with Flurry of Blows being a bonus action. A rewarding of Flurry of Blows could fix that though. Honestly I don't see any reason why Flurry couldn't just be included in the attack action by default. It's not...

My issue with that is that it wouldn't really help most builds until 5th level. If we're making it a mastery I'd ideally like it usable at level 1. I'd suggest making it be: "If you hit a creature, you can use your bonus action to make it Grappled." It keeps the "autosuccess" factor and...

We will agree to disagree.

I'll give this one a chance, but I'll be honest. I despised the first book. The first half was filled with nothing but bloated exposition and one of the whiniest and most selfish characters ever written that just reaks of being a Fan Fiction insert character, and the second half just felt like...

Honestly in terms of gloomstalker I expect/hope they will fix the wonkiness of the darkvision invisibility next pass. I don't think it's necessarily broken as written but just...odd. Like my larger concern with them being invisible to darkvision isn't even combat but all sorts of odd out of...

Yeah, potential balance questions aside I don't feel like the idea of "I attack them back" feels very defensive in nature. If anything I feel like doing something like making a opposed roll to try to prevent them from succeeding is sufficient enough. Especially because the intended point of...

As noted. It's at 7th level, which is arguably at the point where ki for the Monk starts to become less of an issue. It's also about at a point where most campaigns are either 3/4 of the way through. If it were a lower level ability that the monk got around level three that would be better, but...

And yet they did nothing in this playtest to reduce the monk's dependence on short rests, despite doing precisely that for the Warlock. If this playtest goes live monks will essentially be the only class that is significantly balanced around short rests and it is something that will be noticed...

So I've been playing around with a few monk changes for my table. I've not yet fully incorporated weapon masteries because we're not yet fully switching to the playtest but I've sort of done it? Tentatively I like the idea of monks getting masteries at level one like other martials and then...

As written I'll still be choosing to ignore the existence of these feats, and instead continue to use my homebrew feat that our table has been using without any real issues: ARMED AND ARMORED: You gain your choice of two of the following options. This feat can be taken multiple times, though...

Ah yes. The most boring and arguably weakest of all of the "masteries" that nearly every person discussing Weapon masteries has claimed is by far the worst of them since the system was publically announced. Such a great alternative. ...sarcasm aside, you seem or have misunderstood or failed to...

Agree with all of this. I frankly don't understand where people are coming away from this thinking the monk is "better" than the 2014 version when 95% of it is the same and the few tweaks they did add neither address the actual issues with the class or consider the mechanical implications that...

Honestly I like all of the changes to cleric with the exception of one thing: War domain needs extra attack at 6th level. I wish they'd replace the bonus action limited attack with something else minor.

While I disagree with the narrow definition of what a "fighter" is in this thread. (I'm on board for ruling out Eldritch Knight but frankly every other subclass I would argue should be present. Though to answer the question we've had a number of straight class fighters, many of whom has made it...