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An interesting power for the subclass would be to boost the effectiveness of phantasmal force to 1d6 psychic/level instead of 1d6 flat.

OK, so I just did a quick analysis of the feat and the results are actually kind of interesting. I'm not taking into account the possibility that you can mitigate the -5 penalty with advantage. Call P = your probability of hitting with a single attack Call W = your average weapon damage with a...

Ahem. Can I just say... NAILED IT! http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?363786-Artificer-(Wizard-Subclass) I tried to make that subclass before knowing the item creation rules. Time to think about v2... Anyway, regarding WotC's artificer: Giving them a version of brew potion is a good...

I usually play humans , halflings, and dwarves because I'm more interested in the story of a mundane person growing into power and exoticism through their travels, than a character who starts out exotic and mysterious. But it depends a lot on the setting, and what sort of backstory pops into my...

I just thought about this because I'm kicking off a new campaign tonight. The disadvantage of point-buy is that there is an obvious right way to distribute the stat array (or points) to min/max a given class, so you have cookie-cutter or at least uninspiring characters. The disadvantages of...

If you had a martian airship, the eighth ray could make it fly.

The DMG magic items seem to consider them equivalent. It has several skill enhancer items; some give +5 and some give advantage; all are uncommon. If you have a feat/item that grants you advantage, it also means you are never at disadvantage. Your result is capped at 20, however. If you have a...

Swords have a key advantage over other items: you're much more likely to find a magic sword BtB than any other kind of magic weapon. Of course, your DM can toss a Frost Brand (mace) in a treasure hoard, but it looks like this edition is trying to emphasize the iconic weight of the the magic sword.

I understand it as any three cantrips, period. You can have a bard cantrip, a cleric cantrip and a druid cantrip in your book if you want.

Good point, Pemerton. If a DM doesn't want the Far Realm in their cosmology, Limbo and the Slaad Lords make a good substitute for it. Warlocks and mind flayers might be drawing on that power in different ways. Ben

I think the key to understanding slaad is that they act 99% chaotic, but there is still a method to their madness. They were spawned from an artifact of order amidst limbo, and their biology and hierarchy are somewhat orderly; I think they embody chaos with purpose, whereas before the spawning...

Maybe he spent 45 minutes writing up the sheet, but probably hours and hours thinking about the mood he wanted to create, how to structure the encounters, the plot, the NPC personalities, and so forth. I also often only have a page or two of notes, but they're there to reference the bits in my...

Have a few legendary musicians providing entertainment. Sure they're damned, but at the moment they look sleek and well taken care of. If you really want the players to consider taking the bargain, then let them negotiate an escape clause. E.g. if they win, then they can reclaim their souls by...

I never collected miniatures but always wanted nice monsters to put on the battlemap. These seem like a bargain for the price. I look forward to receiving my armies!

I mean the total chance of hitting is about 1/10 (39/400) if you need a 20 but have advantage. Which is like having to roll a 19+ on a single d20, so at that difficulty it only brings you an extra +1.

It's a funny weapon for sure. If you need a 20 to hit, then advantage improves your chance of hitting from 1/20 only to ~1/10 (+1), not +5, so the oathbow acts more like a bane weapon (i.e., dragon slayer). If your chance to hit is already good, on the other hand, then the oathbow is serious...

I love this kind of discussion. Another possible benchmark is the cost of monopolistic services, i.e. spellcasting, compared to the amount of liquid cash in the economy and what people will actually pay. What would be a comparable service in the real world? A spellcaster can: * open a...

Hey, don't dis my mystic flumphurge! He was awesome, getting +1 caster level and +1 manifester level each level. And the mind flayers couldn't touch me while I was wearing my flumph hat.

It's an interesting take on things, and I like the idea of people paying for just the articles they want. Sort of a clearinghouse for peer reviewed adventures? Count me as interested in the 5th edition editor role. I think you might get more mileage out of this by having multiple editors...

It's hard to quantify, but I know it when I see it. If I were asking people to roll, then I would let them reroll if the sum of modifiers is not positive. But my floor is really higher than that. I think a viable character should have as many exceptional scores as weak scores, and that the...