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Again a point of confusion, given the statement about assuming standard array - how does a variant human get 18 cha using std array with healer feat? I mean yeah its possible at 4th, the last level in tier one, but anyone could have 18 at that point. Or is this a case of assume array (max 16...

Btw your tomelock is much closer to mine - tho with celestial it chsnges up a bit and our spells are different. I also dont usually with tomelock worry about EB or Hex at tier-1. Message, Minor Illusion, Guidance, Friends and a save or effect cantrip all are priorities. Of course we agree on...

But cant a wizard also choose feats abnd races to add cantrips? How many pro-warlock assumptions are we needing to accept and assume the wizard gets none of yo make this tier-1 conclusion work? Warlocks will spend one of their four known chsnge on levrl only unseen servant and can thus cast it...

Uhhh.., saves are usually determined by the effect not the GM. So, it seems we are playing very different games. As for skills cs saves vs other - we see portent used for key checks at key moments and those are sometimes attacks, sometimes saves, sometimes ability checks - it really depends on...

"If you want to blast better..." Huh. Now you have me confused again. If the goal is not to blast better but yo be more wizardly, then that drives me more away from the "always takes" agonizing and back towards my silent image or other no-slot invocation spell and an other than EB cantrip...

Huh? Iirc you said it was tied to spell slots. Did I misread that? If you roll in the middle you can use it on either after getting a little info to see whether that's good enough. A middle roll guarantee is fine when the effect is a save vs weak save type. A middle roll is usually good enough...

Want to thank again. You give me good for thought. My tomelocks typically were built as "gonna emphasize spells" especially if I went with Book of Rituals as an invocation at 3rd. So, I tended to not choose Agonizing blast (it's fine for the other pacts) because I wasnt planning to rely on...

"I just think the warlock is more front loaded and portend is still tied to spell slots and you want to roll high and low. It's unreliable." Thanks, that explains a lot. In 5e portent is not tied to spell slots at all. In 5e since it can be used to apply to any ability check, attack or save...

Now, bear with me because I am olde and when I first GMed these mattered - the library. I mean, not only for the vast numbers of stories - real and imaginary- of fantastic places and events across histories... but also helping to get a sense of intertwining narrow spaces and fragile treasures.

It's hard to make sense of things from the post because you either have something very off or are not giving enough info. You mention having 8 or 10 cantrips as a tomelock without level cite snd while it follows a line about level 3 - at level 3 a warlock class can have by class - two from...

Absolutely. Wizard gets fully invested by level 2. Has both his class and initial sub-class features in play than. Warlock having to wait until third to get its pact features is imo a disservice to them. Their whole familiar- blade-tome thing has to wait until tier-1 is half over to even start...

"Assuming the wizard is slight better at low levels with rituals they're still outclassed in combat and social pillars and the tomelock can also pick up guidance." That has yet to be proven and does not match my ecxperience. It certainly can be true in some campaigns that any given are...

Huh? Just to be clear, not every adventure should have factors that limit their rests and recoveries but it's better to codify in rules a recovery rate that always applies? Those seem counter-intuitive. "It wont be right to have our adventures always have time pressure that impacts recovery...

At 3rd level, after spending an invocation on the book and taking pact of the yome, the warlock has 5 known cantrips, 4 known spells 2 slots @2nd level plus 2 more castings per short rest. They also have two free rituals in the book. The wizard has 3 known cantrips, 10 known spells, expected to...

First I ditch alignment. Trying to develop more robust portrayal or persona within that seems pointless. Second dont try to fo "nature" but choose an aspect or two of nature and emphasize those while honoring the others more as a foundation. Once you have one or two aspects, go for it. Look...

At 3rd level, a wizard will have from his free spells 10 - 6 at first and 2 each at 2nd and 3rd. They can likely prepare 6 at a time. That, combined with actual in plsy experience, is where I got the estimate of 4 or more rituals in their chosen spells at that point. So, whoever you were...

In an era where flat earth is a business- the idea that some believe most snything is not surprising to me.

5.01 Really just emphasis on what you can do now. 1 - Give examples to show that as an ability check, initiative can be used with the variant ability score feature- letting you base it off the most reasonable score for the situation- Wisdom for "who spots who first" or "do they seem likely to...

Warlock vs wizard in rituals is debatable. A wizard has access in their own class list to about 2 out of three of the about 3 dozen rituals that exist for all classes and can simply choose them. While they can augment these chosen free by using any written they find, its easy for them to get...

Stepping away from the details, here is what I see this as. 5e has a "hest" design - thinking old school style tech - where you start with abilities to use and as you use them you gain an increasing problem that needs passive effort to clear. So, inactivity is needed to reload or refresh your...