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Episode 4 was alright. Except that the potions witch forgot she can do potions, again.

There is no disagreement of tenses. 'when a spell you cast deals damage' is the same as 'when a spell (that you now cast or previously cast) deals damage' - the SPELL is the focus here, the trigger, the 'you cast' part may just be an identifier for the spell. In the old text, 'when you cast a...

You pick up Cha Shillelagh with Magic Initiate to avoid level delays. Of course, this restricts your weapon choice to club/quarterstaff. But the main thing holding Cha primary back is that all the combat feats raise just Str/Dex.

While I hate that it's a strong enough of a feature that every party should have a Paladin... It's only 10ft radius, and Paladins tend to be in melee, so this actually rewards forming a frontline. And it makes Charisma Paladins a very valid build option, rather than just a niche curiosity.

There's no difference between did cast vs have cast. And because both the present and past tense of cast is cast, guess we'll never know!

I think putting in more features runs the risk of class-ifying the races, as not every feature can be universally useful. 'we gave Kenders the Taunt ability, making them the only warrior-type who can actually hold aggro' It bears noting that even with the very few features the base 5e...

Bonus action magic item use is the one new thing Thief got.

Eldritch Blast really should scale based on Warlock levels, huh. It's like it's a class feature or something.

They get Str + Dex save proficiencies. Wis 16 Monk1 is not inherently any better than a Wis 16 Fighter.

And that's exactly why blade cantrip sneak attacks aren't a problem. Cantripper is making one bigger single attack. Nicker is making two attacks, and has the option of picking up Dual-Wielder for 3rd. The latter has the reliability (of landing their sneak attack in the first place) on their...

Fair... It just feels off, because you'd still have to be naked+unshielded for the martial arts to work, which means you'd want to be boosting Dex+Wis both to have any semblance of AC, and Fighter isn't getting anything else out of the Wis. That said, it's not like starting with Wis 16 would be...

It's not. It's the base Fighter chassis with a few spell slots clumsily crafted on. It takes until lv18 for EK to be able to attack while also casting a lv1/lv2 spell, which should tell you everything you need to know - not exactly a great marriage of fighting and magic. For actual magic...

And you cannot reload it without a free hand, so uhh. Seeing how Eldritch Blast cannot sneak attack, that'd be a pretty poor Rogue!

You can still cast Blade Ward with War Magic... Sure, you don't need to cast it often (what with 1min duration if you have the concentration to spare for it), but War Magic doesn't limit itself to just attack cantrips.

I have a Monk in my game who dipped into Fighter1 just so they could have the 3 weapon masteries... Now they don't have to be Open Hand to Topple people, can support their team by Sapping with a magical mace, etc Light/Finesse weapon masteries are really limited (basically Nick/Vex). Monk + 1...

I gave you a method to resolve this issue for yourself - read the comments of the video. If that is too much work for you, well, that's a shame on one of us.

A lot of people seem just as enamored by attack cantrips as they were in 2014. That's a single big hit. Besides that, unfortunately dual hand crossbows are still a thing, but they only have a 30ft range (unless you pick up Sharpshooter just for that), so a real bow of some sort gives you more...

I think 1 level of Rogue is an amazingly cheap price to pay for a scaling extra attack from Nick + sneak attack + Expertise. But you really don't want/need more than just that 1 level. A pure monk + Weapon Master is an option, but it's lacking the other goodies besides Nick, and 1 level is just...

On Goliaths, I don't personally really like Cloud (they already have movement speed + Str advantage from Embiggening to make Athletics rolls with) or Hill (that's what weapon masteries are for, especially when it's still limited to Large enemies), but they are both powerful because you can just...

It shouldn't, so I wish there was something in the subclass to reward Int. Int skills really aren't it, so you're just looking at spell DCs, and you don't have the spell levels / slots to make that alone worth it. As things are, are you going to boost Int over Str/Dex? Or boost Int over getting...