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To me the big thing about the True Strike path is that you can even afford to save the Agonizing Blast invocation. And sure 1d6+1d8+10 or about 18 damage isn't great, it's not awful either and a long way ahead of the full casters and their cantrips. And some of those invocations are awesome.

Not even close. A good classless system will still have polarising features due to imbalances. You'll end up with something where you have a range like a 5.24 warlock (anything from a bookish psychic illusionist to a bullying Gish with a demon patron to a crossbow wielding priest with a holy...

I find the warlock more complex to build - but easy in play. You just have two spells slots and no need to worry about spell levels. Just the spells you have. And the Invocations are things you can Just Do. Either actives or passives. Most invocations are either very simple or just "You can...

It claims to be but really really isn't. The magic is far too specific for most settings, the martials are far too grounded for e.g. anime or Celtic myth, and the combat is far too consequence free for anything with more than sprayed on grit.

We'll use 2024 rules as default next time I run a campaign of something 5eish. I don't always run D&D and when I do it's not always 5e

In reality that was the core change - putting it into the description of the monster. In 3.5 immunities were extremely common and were frequently by monster category. So constructs were blanket immune to critical hits and precision damage because whoever wrote them was thinking of golems...

There are quite a few more round subclass names; they've largely given up each class having a unique subclass name and tweaked the names for a few of them. One that comes to mind is that dragon blood is now I think Draconic - certainly something that doesn't really strongly imply an ancestor did...

Just thought I'd add a couple of clarifications because I agree it's a pain. A number of level 1 spells that are rituals. You can't e.g. grab water breathing. These spells count as always prepared. This ritual isn't level capped. If you also have e.g. Water Breathing prepared you can cast it...

Doubling the sales of D&D's best yearwould still leave it at a fraction of M:tG and that's within the WotC division of Hasbro.

Going back to basics single classed martials are much stronger than in 2014. Also levels 3-5 are all very important (3=subclass, 4 = first feat and prime stat for a normal character up from 17 to 18, 5 = second attack). The case for multiclassing before 5 is hard. After 5 things are very...

The Pact of the Blade Warlock is mostly good other than being very squishy. And while 12 temp hp at will is great at tier 1 it falls off, so after level 5 I think the Bladelocks want a single level dip for medium armour and shields. Paladin, ranger, and fighter all provide medium armour...

Nope. Wizard is the ritual master (you don't even have to have spells prepared to cast them as rituals) and has a broader range of spells available than a sorcerer. The sorcerer is the stronger combat class - but wizards still have more utility. If you're going to have two classes that are so...

Who said anything about former use? That dungeon was using a literal real world castle map as a castle and outpost connected to the BBEG.

Ratio in terms of what? If I'm building a dungeon based on a castle I might have four servant's quarters or privies for every duke's bedroom or ballroom. And there won't be much loot in the former two categories. In terms of volume of floorspace I therefore have no problem with the idea that...

Yes it does. If a dungeon only has five interesting locations and twenty tedious ones then it's a better adventure if you get to the interesting ones in two sessions than if you do in ten.

Good. They had cripplingly few of them from 2014-2019. And I do mean cripplingly few to the point they were easily the weakest full caster. Seriously someone has to be the best - and I consider it a good thing that after ten years of being right at the bottom of their categories people can now...

This is the sort of arc I'd expect to see out of Oath of the Crown. (I'm very much a proponent of Paladins changing subclasses as a result of character development)

Within a rounding error everyone who posts on ENWorld who plays at all is a DM (I seem to recall 95% of EnWorld posters are sometimes DMs and 75%+ normally DM). Indeed the majority of people who care enough to post about it online in just about any non-newbie forum (rather than just show up to...

I'm surprised by your selections. The Horizon Walker Ranger is the non-PHB ranger I think I have seen discussed the most online. The Oath of the Crown is the "warlock paladin"; a paladin whose oath was to a shady employer. In terms of inherent plot and roleplaying I think its the best of the...

I didn't purchase the 2014 PHB until I could get an edition not thanking the RPG Pundit. So I only bought the core books years after I'd started running a campaign. This one? I was expecting to get given they had an ongoing campaign. The playtest at a couple of points (mostly round half-casting...