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Fire Bolt is not on the Warlock's spell list, tho.

Instead of doing this, why not simply fix Eldritch Blast? Wouldn't that be a lot easier than crafting other rules to work around the issues with Eldritch Blast?

I really hope "over twenty-five" isn't a fancy way of saying twenty-six.

If you learn Firebolt, you could use Exploding Blast to do the FPS trick of aiming the RPG at the floor under your target's feet instead of the target itself. Edit: this is only true if you mean the Twin Spell definition of "targets a single creature." If you instead mean something like "and...

Obviously, you playtest the ad hoc number to determine which one is best (I wasn't actually suggesting 4/5 is the optimal value; it was merely an example). Certainly, WOTC did their own playtesting. What I have trouble imagining is the notion that WOTC said "ok, sometimes this spell kills a...

You'd think, but situational value did not stop WOTC from fitting individual spells into spell levels despite the fact that many spells are better or worse depending on the circumstances. In other words, we don't bootstrap the spell level of Fireball up or down based on the fact that most of the...

The easy way to do it would be to figure out your single-target damage, add 4/5 of that damage for the second target, add 4/5 of the previous damage for the third, add 4/5 of the previous damage for the fourth, and so forth. That way, a spell that did an average of 10 damage per target to three...

Well, we know that adding targets to an AoE has diminishing returns. That's pretty easy to model as long as you're willing to quantify an estimate for the value of adding a target (say each additional target is worth 4/5 the last). You could do it with a logarithmic equation.

This world would be filled with people learning Prestidigitation solely to make foods bacon-flavored. There would likely be entire industries based upon the magical baconification of food.

If communal decision-making were the point, there would be no need to implement a bouncing back-and-forth draft for the scores. You'd just pick the scores as a committee.

Those were my thoughts as well. This looks like a big machination designed to iron out some of the randomness/swinginess of rolling stats. If you want the higher average stats of rolling without the randomness, why not just let your players use an elite starting array or an enhanced point buy?

A friend of mine just took over the mantle of DM for a while, and gave the option of rolling stats instead of using point buy. Three of the six players jumped at the opportunity. It was certainly fun to see them roll for their scores; there were cheers when someone rolled a 17, and there were...

I'd just throw in a paragraph that says something like "Some dragon warlocks get their power not from a living dragon patron, but from the residual power of a draconic ancestor. Sometimes called sorcerers, these dragon warlocks might experience flashes of memories from their long dead ancestor...

What about trying to redo the sorcerer as a warlock patron? Dragons are already conceivable as a patron option. You'd likely have to drop metamagic and sorcery points, but all of the dragon bloodline features could likely be ported over.

The article in the first post makes it clear that CoS IS illustrative of the model WOTC is following when it comes to GLBT inclusion in their published material. The balance struck in CoS, continued in SKT, and to be shown in ToA, is their end-goal for inclusion. There is no indication...

I was using sarcasm to illustrate a seeming double-standard when it came to overt depictions of straight carnal relationships and how straight attraction is not simply ubiquitous in adventures, it can even be the fulcrum for those adventures. This is an irrational prediction. Do you honestly...

Curse of Strahd is Exhibit A in the case against this, though. Jeremy Crawford was the managing editor of that adventure, and none of the weird "it'll be in-your-face" scenarios came to pass. I mean, there is a flamboyant parade at one point, but none of the adventure's GLBT characters come...

This line, and the myopia it describes, is the reason this thread is 50 pages long.

Are you implying that things like this are OK when they echo some familiarity with popular culture or some other aspect of the real world? I mean, I won't disagree with you, but wouldn't this line of reasoning about source material apply to both Dracula AND Lestat? Are you unfamiliar with...

Strahd's sexual orientation is the onus behind the primary adventure hook of Curse of Strahd: protecting Ireena Kolyana so that Strahd can't forcibly make her his bride. A huge chunk of the adventure is literally stopping Strahd from "hooking up." I, for one, am sick and tired of TSR then WOTC...