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You mean with the ward? I'd definitely put them below the Illusionist who can use a bonus action to provide someone with concealment every turn. The collected sneaks (rangers and rogues). Ghosting splits the party or is solipsistic, Dex 14 is ultra-common, and ranged damage is low while...

Are we talking improvising or worldbuilding here? And I would say that the Dungeon Master's Guide should be written from the perspective that this is not the case. It should be written with the goal that a group of kids have only heard of D&D decide to try to use it, the PHB, and possibly the...

There's more than one way to build a world - and the "grow it around the PCs" approach works, especially for shorter campaigns. Which is why the 2024 DMG spends significant time on that. It's the approach that lets them get down to the business of DMing. And it also suggests using a prebuilt...

Much as I love warlocks this is really overrating the GOOlock. Pact Magic means they level out of Dissonant Whispers in a way bards don't. A, possibly even B tier. Don't see the 'serker as notably better than the zealot. Not enough to justify a tier gap Also best anti-invis team players (my...

I'm going to propose that no wizard is below B tier and no artificer below A tier for one very simple reason: Every other class wants to dump intelligence and Investigation and Arcana are top tier skills and history is useful. In detail: Artificers: Artillerist: S tier: dat force field...

The PHB is improved with better balance, stronger concepts, and less caster supremacy. It's still a greatest hits album - but moves from a 6/10 to a 7/10 for me. The DMG is vastly better than the 2014 version and actually starts out by teaching people how to run a game - and doesn't teach them...

If you're used to 3.X, all I can say is "this is nowhere near that bad" and that you're suffering from nostalgia goggles. The benchmark 5e class and the one that barely changed from 2014 to 2024 is the wizard. And a 5e wizard gains power significantly less fast than their 3.X equivalents, having...

The point is that with the Wild Heart (unlike Totem Warrior) you don't choose on a character basis. You choose on a daily basis in character. Climb is kinda useful but easily used while swim is really useful on the rare times you need it. But with just a little planning you can work out when...

And I'm pointing out that 5.24 is just being 100% unambiguous about something that has been true for 42 years of D&D's 50 year history (50 years really because 3.0 and 3.5 did a wonderful job of proving why the approach simply doesn't work). And that this is very much the game D&D has almost...

Or to put things another way the job of the rules isn't to make the world make sense; that's the job of the DM. The job of the rules is to make the world accessible and give the players agency.

Wildheart 6 honestly isn't bad - you can switch between the three options on a long rest. Swim would be a waste of a pick because it's situational but having a back pocket swim speed for that rare adventure is useful.

Only in the 3.x era. In the AD&D era almost everyone was an 0th level character - which wasn't something that was PC facing. 2000-2007 is the aberration. And the NPC classes made a complete mockery of the meaning of "level". D&D Rules are not a physics engine, they are a User Interface. And the...

Easier at creation or in play? Warlocks are easier to create in 2024 than they were in 2014 but are the hardest to create and easiest to play. Terminology changed. Bards and Sorcerers might call themselves spells prepared casters but only get to change what they've prepared on level up. And...

OK. We've got two different groupings here; Wizard vs Sorcerer and Cleric vs Druid Sorcerer: A blast mage. Their spells are roughly 2/3 damage, 1/3 utility and they are almost entirely lacking in summons and rituals. If you want to be a blaster play a sorcerer. Sorcerers are the best blasters...

For the record: Remarkable Athlete down to level 3 to go with Improved Critical - and it's now Advantage in athletics and initiative. Huge buff Second fighting style down to 7. Blind Fighting is actually looking nice here. Heroic Inspiration (i.e. a reroll) in combat every turn is a huge new...

Oh indeed. And if the DM uses divine intervention to cripple a character by taking away their spellcasting then they should re-read that section and realise that Being God and being on a power trip is something they can't do in everyday life. And by doing it in game they are the ones leading the...

My fundamental problem here is that I have a very different understanding of "good" than EGG; he advocated that it was entirely in line with Lawful Good to make prisoners convert them kill them before they could backslide. (Source) And given that Gygax' understanding of Lawful Good is close to...

On the other hand warlock invocations are great in many cases. WotC may have fallen from their 4e high of granting useful non-magical abilities - but is vastly better than anything pre-4e.

If I had a story as flat as the original cut of Star Wars I wouldn't. Lucas put together an amazing team. But the Lucas of "Han shot first", "Sand. I hate Sand." And "The Death Star just hangs there in space doing nothing before the second trench run so the editors are going to splice in an...

I find this approach extremely flawed from a game and story point of view - and with no better a grasp of characterisation than George Lucas has. (Lucas was a visionary - but his characterisation was little better than his dialogue).