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I didn't have my PH handy and I couldn't think of one... Maybe True Strike would be appropriate?

The warlock thread inspired me to write this up. I don't pretend it's well researched or balanced, but it could make for a fun little warlock-only campaign. Dungeon Master Patron You are trapped in a world that is not your own, drawn there by a powerful entity that calls itself only "Dungeon...

The best thing about this UA is the new invocations and the scraps of expanded lore on various patrons. The second-best thing is everything else, because there are serious balance issues.

I'd say the rule of cool applies here. Is the player who controls Mongo interested in exploring this development? Will letting the spell work result in more fun for the group? Then let it work, and accept the side effects of the decision on your setting, which is that the apes of your world...

Pretty cool class. Thanks for uploading it! The only issue I have is that all the subclasses feel rather... evil. The conjurer COULD be allied with neutral or benevolent spirits in principal, but has some hardwired abilities that are evil. So a few spell options and variant powers catering to...

Sounds like an interesting campaign! Take bronze-age Europe, populate it heavily with humanoid monster races taking the place of major civilizations. Then require the PCs to be primitive human slaves.

I'm very glad this funding model exists. And it's not much different from the funding model for business start-ups, just on a smaller scale. Re. the pathfinder video game KS, I funded that one but only at the level to get the Emerald Spire PDF (which was delivered, and is a pretty good...

I agree, this is a great implementation of the nilbog concept. Leatherhead, "Why would a hobgoblin horde bother with goblins?" I can think of several rationalizations, from religious duty to the need for low-value troops to absorb the first shock of an assault, but I think the main reason is...

I think it's totally feasible and an interesting idea. You're absolutely right that there is a deep asymmetry between the martial and magic classes. This is not necessarily a problem. It brings the advantage of allowing for two very distinct styles of resource management among PCs and hence...

I think they're being very cautious about expanding the mechanics and the design space, but that doesn't mean that 5E can't handle it. The latest version of the mystic and the artificer both play with very different class structures, and I don't see any major problems with them. Cheers, Ben

I think that this is what their spells/infusions are for, but they don't get very many of them. And if they spend all of their slots just keeping themselves alive through mid levels, it is a problem. I think the class would work well if it had more emphasis on infusions (and a much faster...

Some alternate ideas for the warforged racial abilities, in case you want to split it into subraces. * Fortified body. The warforged gets +1 AC in addition to any bonded armor, and is resistant to piercing damage. * Inorganic mind. The warforged has advantage on saving throws against spells...

One minor change that I think would be cool: Instead of "Remarkable Athlete" giving a flat bonus, it gives the PC advantage on any ability score check involving Str, Dex, or Con. Recharges on a short rest. Usable 2x or 3x/short rest at higher levels. Now a choice is involved. Do you really...

Champions also get more oomph out of advantage than others. With advantage, a crit range 19-20 gives a 76/400 ~ 20% chance to crit. I presume that somewhere in that typical adventuring day, the champion gets a few attack rolls with advantage, which affects your calculations a bit. Does the party...

Very true. Just to add my personal spin on your comment: Does a low-magic-item campaign have to be low magic generally? No, of course not. By the same token, a low magic campaign doesn't have to be low-magic-item, if spellcasting is a more difficult skill than crafting fetishes, totems, or...

Squee! I like this version a lot. There is definitely room for another subclass or two. I could see one focused on golems that powers up its companion at higher levels, and one focused on a sort of "item metamagic" that gets some of the Eberron artificer's signature abilities such as adding an...

Thanks for the input everyone. Jhaelen, Reasons for conflict abound... once multiple species are sharing the same world or habitat. What I was looking for was reasons for conflict that could justify the risk of destroying expensive starships, under the assumption that starships cost a...

Any departure from real-world physics is going to require magic to do some heavy lifting to keep the world in place. This is not a problem, and I think you have the right idea. The ancient Greeks did debate the question of whether the Earth went around the Sun or vice versa. The proof they...

I'm assuming that the economic losses from destroying fleet-class starships and other major space-based infrastructure are much higher than the economic losses from destroying a modern army (relative to the civilization's production). I'm aware that this is only an assumption, and that it could...

Well, if the guards are alert and trying hard to notice things, and the PCs are trying hard to sneak up, shouldn't neither group get advantage? In that case I would just make it stealth vs passive perception with no modes. But your post also touches on an important point--encounter distance...