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While reviewing things for the above post on damage, I realized that Charger synergizes incredibly well with Forceful Blow. You knock the opponent back 15 feet, and can then immediately move towards it up to half your speed (so up to 20 feet without other adjustments), which is more than enough...

Well, you don't have to make it a strategic choice. One of the first Brutal Strike options is knockback, and you don't need any strategic use for that to just be a fun mechanic. Wading into a crowd of foes and just sending them flying as you swing your weapon around helps, not hinders, the "hit...

I played a barbarian over a 4 year campaign. I'd be surprised if I managed to land even 10 crits in the entire campaign. Not that I didn't roll 20's. I got plenty of nat 20's on skill checks and saves and such. I also ran a fighter NPC as a secondary character for about half the campaign, and...

Restore a Rage on a short rest: Nice QOL Brutal Strike: I like it. I like Forceful Blow, and it seems like it should stack with Push for a total of 25' knockback. You can move half your speed after that, which would be 20' by default. You could still make a second attack with a reach weapon...

OK, my own calculations have advantage adding 4.02875, while the d10 adds the same 3.575 as you got. I don't think I made an error, but I also can't figure out how you got 4.38375. For clarity, I'm using: 84% (adv hit rate) * 15.5 (1d12+9) + 9.75% (adv crit rate) * 6.5 (1d12 bonus crit die) =...

More precisely, the Archfey warlock subclass.

I could easily see putting the monk at a 1d10 hit die instead of 1d8. Some are comparing it to the fighter, but I'd actually consider it more like the ranger (which also tends towards a Dex/Con/Wis stat build). Most monk-like concepts that I can think of (monk/ronin/jedi/etc) tends towards a...

I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. They aren't taking a "new approach" to monk (as in the quote I replied to), only adjusting how the current system works — the framework that the other subclasses sit on, which they aren't changing. If they were making significant changes to the base...

Jeremy said they're going back to the drawing board, but didn't give any details on how they might change the class. I assume there won't be huge changes to the framework, since he also said that the only subclass being reworked was the Warrior of the Hand. If the other subclasses aren't being...

The original scenario was one character vs three goblins. I just expanded on that by adding environmental factors.

Yay, scenarios! I'll take things a bit further. I have no idea yet how things are going to turn out. Three goblins staging an ambush on a forest path against a lone traveler. They are hidden (passive stealth = 16) at the start. Review Both succeeded, though a bit worse dice luck could have...

I've been considering a big campaign game I played a while back. Early in the adventure (around level 1 or 2) we acquired a house for the party to stay at. This was provided by the DM himself, since the module didn't provide any common living area for the party, despite the vast majority of the...

Based on the current rules, the GP equivalent for Bastion Points varies wildly. If you extract the value for GP from how many additional points you get when you pay for advantage, it varies from 40 GP per BP for 1d4 (level 5 facilities, or maintenance), to 26 GP/BP for 1d6 (level 9 facilities)...

Right. Let's look at some of the early levels, step by step. At these low levels, everyone kinda sucks. Level 1 Monk: Martial Arts. Barbarian: 2 Rages Fighter: Fighting Style, Second Wind Rogue: Sneak Attack, Expertise Ranger: Spellcasting, Expertise So: Monk's Martial Arts is roughly...

You asked for how it happened, and I gave you the math. And if you want to take away Rage, then you can also remove Flurry of Blows, since they're both a basic class resource. You already granted FoB to the monk, so I gave Rage to the barbarian. If you want to remove Rage (12 damage per round...

How is it being overly generous in what they grant? I was applying exactly what they provide. Please elaborate. If it's illustrating other issues in the playtest, then that's exactly what should be getting discussed. If you think the comparison isn't useful, then please provide the parameters...

If you're referring to the highlighted section in your image, I'm not using that for my calculations. Technically it's doable, but it's inordinately complicated since the PAM build is already using the bonus action for the PAM attack. You'd have to determine under which circumstances you'd...

Looks like the survey is up. Page link on DNDBeyond is here. Open til November 2.

It's in the Expert Classes UA, playtest 2.

At first I was going to call this a bad faith argument, but on further reflection I realize that not everyone is good at math, and, while I've posted a link to my spreadsheet for others to examine, not everyone is going to be willing to do that, so that's not the best way of explaining things...