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Problem with balancing stats, is that each class has a POWER STAT... and Charisma casters are already goddamn powerful (and with easy multiclassing with each other). And Wizards are just Wizards. But Int/Charisma are really useless if you're not one of those casters. So you would need to...

Is there any art in the PHB showing a hand crossbow? You'd expect that from 10+ years of being the dominant ranged weapon (which is only there so you can have guns without having guns, but... the game does have guns).

It's not just action economy. It's that with the CONCENTRATION economy, blocking you from most of their other combat spells. The fact that subclasses built around spending their bonus action every round already (say, Horizon Walker and Beastmaster), get particularly screwed over is just icing on...

My first impression was that the colorfulness was welcome. Let's have a second look... First half of the book is nothing but static single-character pose images. Orcs look less like orcs than half-orcs ever did (and even so, still barely get any pictures). Modern wheelchair (in feats) looks...

Is that really a worry? It is a bad spell - doesn't work on Large+ targets, its DC to do anything at all is based on a very secondary stat for most Rangers, it can be cancelled with ease if there are any minions around... And also, Entangle exists. Its only function is to drop flying targets...

It's not. It's where the feature should be at, because that's how Tasha Favored Foe worked, and that already got ignored most of the time, because of the concentration requirement. Giving us a Favored Foe that can trigger multiple times in a round sounds just about right, and switching between...

You can, by just picking any class other than Ranger, who don't have features that actively clash with the rest of the class options. You have successfully outlined a strong reason why most games do stop right there.

There'd have to be people playing lv13+ for that.

VTT + 6e would be the right time to just reprint most of 4e.

I don't care about specifically solving Paladins crying over having to spend actions to smite. I do care about class features that can feel punishing when they restrict your options over giving you options. On the other side, you have a Paladin that HAS TO Smite with a bonus action or that's a...

Nothing I said made actions free. I would have just given Paladins an extra lv1 spell slot so they can choose how to use it (and their bonus action), rather than wedding it to forced smiting.

Ah. You can use Hunter's Mark stealthily! You just need to pre-emptively cast it on a mouse while in a secluded spot, then you have an hour to find your real target, at which point you squeeze the pocket mouse dead (well, 0 hitpoints, maybe you just gently choke it unconscious until its...

This is a better comparison point, seeing how Smite eats up their bonus action (which, just on the damage front, could just as well have been used to make a regular attack to benefit from Divine Favor's extra damage). And no, I'm not a big fan of forced Smite conflicting with other stuff they...

I'm not a fan of telling every Paladin that they're a Beastmaster now, either (especially when actually staying on the mount is still a Dex save). But at least it is not actively clashing with their Smite mechanic.

Personally, I'd take free casts of just Goodberry over HM, just because at least a Beastmaster / Horizon Walker could actually use that spell, instead of HM which hogs up the bonus actions their subclass demands. (it's not like you can even cast Hunter's Mark sneakily before combat starts or...

Having run playtest campaign for a year now, and recently seeing the PHB, from just the GM side of things... Glossary is a great idea. It's a little weird that a pile of corpses is no longer difficult terrain. Spells were barely touched, when they're the source of a ton of the main issues...

Polearm Master has gotten 4 attacks on many turns for 10 years now. Dual-Wielder is unique only in how convoluted they made it.

Action Surge. So it can be... t1: 4 x TWF attack + 2 x Action Surge greatweapon attack t2: greatweapon attack stow OR free object interaction stow, TWF as usual for the rest of the combat While I like weapon-juggling, and this is indeed a good way to optimize the Action Surge, this just feels...

And Fighter Action Surge is still tons better for GWM, while just feeling like you're missing out on stuff for TWF.

Ah sorry, I did mean Magic Weapon, sorry. I forgot about it existing because its window of relevance is so tiny (if you don't have a magical weapon at lv5, you will shortly after), and was just continuing along the ranged favoritism trajectory of Hail of Thorns and Lightning Arrow.