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... you're practically asking for some joker to play a coffeelock aren't you? And have you nerfed cantrips (or rather prevented them from scaling past level 10)? 4d10 firebolts against a standard two attacks is pretty strong - and that's before we get into Eldritch + Agonizing Blast or other...

OK. Initial thoughts: Some polishing (and making the Homonclucus Servant a spell akin to Find Familiar is nice) , but core features aren't fixed. Firearm proficiency appears to have been taken away. Permanent magic items? Does having your "Plan" make it easier to create e.g. a permanent bag of...

The 2024 ranger is not at all the 2014 ranger. The 2014 ranger was a disasterpiece whose special abilities meant that you spent less time doing what they should be good at and one of whose two subclasses turned your life into an escort mission trying to keep your pet alive. The 2019 update in...

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I think an artificer would. A ranger? I'd far rather they got more low level stuff they knew and could do. Either Invocation style or a lot of low level pact slots rather than a couple of high level ones.

And this is a good thing. I don't want to see 0.763 casters. Indeed I find the concept of "half caster" to be its own type of ugly mess and would far rather see more classes be like warlocks and do their own thing rather than being spell level beancounters. And given that a substantial group of...

They can ... as of the 2024 update paladins and rangers can both swap one spell per long rest.

Way OP. At that point the become essentially a druid as a caster with martial level attacks and strong skills.

I'm not sure how you are judging this; an issue with half casters is that they get spells too late to be that useful. One of the Fey Wanderer's party pieces is Summon Fey - but on a level 11 battlefield AC 15, 30hp is a speed bump (the CR 11 Roc has +13 to hit and multiple attacks averaging over...

Can't agree. They aren't full casters and too much doesn't take their one trick pony stuff; better hope you're not up against celestials, constructs, fiends, oozes, or undead all of whom commonly ignored charmed and frightened. Mmm - they aren't bards. They can stand up to sorcs and warlocks...

A few notes: The ranger really is a jack of all trades; I've been calling it the hedge wizard and it's thematically bland In 2023 the ranger was probably the premier ranged damage dealer but with no defensive tech other than weak self healing and defensive spells was at best a glass cannon on...

As a rule of thumb with 0 short rests a warlock has the casting power of a subclass (arcane trickster/Eldritch knight), with one a half caster, and with two a full caster. They are balanced round 1.5 I think. But their burst power comes from their magic, and hex is a bad spell, only ever having...

This. You can perfectly happily play a warlock using 2014 recipes. But you've been able to do that for ten years now. The True Strike/Celestial warlock and actually good bladelocks are both new things. And True Strike is stronger than EB from levels 1-4.

5e ride or die is, I predict, going to be about as popular as 3.0 ride or die; the changes to 5.24 are probably smaller

Contrast? Possibly. Contradiction, no. If we look at the sheer quantity of 5e rules, whether or not we include combat magic, it is clearly combat heavy. At the same time in an effort to file the rough edges off combat is neither very swingy (with sudden reversals or deaths) and exciting nor...

This is a D&D board and 5e has been the current version of D&D for ten years. It's also IMO the most boring D&D combat has ever been.

My current approach is "popcorn initiative" with each person acting deciding who moves next of those who haven't acted this round. As for who starts, whoever triggers the fight gets a roll with an appropriate stat or even skill, with dexterity being appropriate for quick draws. More common is...

It depends on who's DMing. I always have two questions in the back of my head "What can I learn from this for my own DMing?" and "What would I do in their shoes?" And even a bad DM provides some lessons (although you see the same ones over and over again). DMing is always higher octane than...

Indeed. No wonder you need to be "very very selective about the people I play D&D with" given your unwillingness to try and disentangle problems or even understand that misunderstandings and clashes are far more common than malice. I have little doubt that you believe you have good intentions...

Or they play something more party orientated because they don't get told that this is playing in good faith. It is also possible to in good faith play a toxic PC. Yes. No one is denying that there are toxic players. However most players aren't. Old School D&D encouraged people who weren't...