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  1. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Help Me Hate Monks (Less Than I Currently Do)

    I directly said that I might be misunderstanding what you meant and that I apologize if I misunderstood - that is hardly pouncing and calling you racist. I'm not sure what you mean by "the second part" or "engaging with the question", so I'll go ahead and bow out rather than risk further...
  2. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Help Me Hate Monks (Less Than I Currently Do)

    Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. I'm not clear whether you're being sarcastic or serious, but it's quite jarring on a website like this that preaches diversity and inclusion that someone could argue that medieval Asian culture doesn't belong in an adventure about knights in shining...
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    D&D General Redesigning DnD 5e with no Bonus Actions

    An approach I have considered but never put work into implementing is to remove Bonus Actions by making them free actions that just happen automatically under certain circumstances. For examples, see how Vow of Enmity and Sacred Weapon were changed from Bonus Actions in 5.0e to automatically...
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    D&D General Renamed Thread: "The Illusion of Agency"

    It is impossible to prove you wrong that you personally prefer to play without dice rolls outside combat, but I can very easily prove you wrong that I greatly prefer the 5e Rules As Written with skillchecks to determine success outside combat. I want character builds and characters' abilities...
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    D&D General Hasbro enters gambling deal using Dungeons & Dragons intellectual property

    People are still clutching their pearls over gambling? What decade is this?
  6. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Amnesia Sequence Yea/Nay?

    I voted "Other" because I wouldn't have a huge problem with your scenario as a player, but I wouldn't really like it much either - it just feels really unnecessary and doesn't sound like it would even add anything interesting to the story. If you want to preserve the mystery then just don't...
  7. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Seeking input re: Dwarves Riding Bears.

    Looking at their page on MyMiniFactory it looks like the default size for these is approx 50x50mm (so large). If not, you can usually just scale the size up or down in your slicer without too much difficulty. Also there's no real reason that Large creatures HAVE to be 2x2 on the map. I...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Reducing Power Gaming

    Nope I definitely don't see it at all, and I'd be pretty annoyed as a player at a table that banned something so average. It's your table though so I don't need to agree
  9. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Bracers of Defense vs Ring of Protection +1

    I'd take +1 to all saving throws over +1 AC, but there's no wrong answer really
  10. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) Reducing Power Gaming

    Rune Knight or Echo Knight? Rune Knight is ok but it's not any more powerful than most Fighter subclasses. I've never heard of anyone banning Rune Knight, that's crazy Now if you meant Echo Knight then yeah, the Critical Role subclasses are not balanced very well and are often banned
  11. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) ENworld Damage Guide Vs Treantmonk's?

    It's pretty easy. Assume all abilities that recharge on a Short Rest are available every combat.
  12. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) ENworld Damage Guide Vs Treantmonk's?

    I don't really like Treantmonk's calculations, he assumes too many combats, too few short rests, and doesn't really optimize the builds at all. I do really love the way he presents things and shows all his assumptions and math though, many times I'll still learn something D4 Deep Dive...
  13. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Complete Champion : Fighter Tier List

    I thought this way as well until a guy in my campaign now paired Champion with Elven Accuracy and dual-wielding for a whole bunch of attacks. The numbers still don't end up overpowered or anything, but he can generally count on getting multiple crits per combat so it's solid DPR and super fun...
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    D&D General How Often Should a PC Die in D&D 5e?

    The question is very poorly worded but I get what they're trying to ask. No one has a preferred amount of PC deaths, but most people probably do have some preference on how difficult the encounters are, which then determines how often the PCs end up happening to die. I interpreted the question...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Subclass feature vs. feat -- Which is "worth" more?

    If I were in charge of designing things, then high level Class and Subclass features should be powerful and something that you would actually care about missing out on if you multi-classed. Right now, the only powerful features gained at high level are 7th, 8th, 9th level spells. This is the...
  16. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) Subclass feature vs. feat -- Which is "worth" more?

    This is so true and such a terrible failure of game design
  17. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) Subclass feature vs. feat -- Which is "worth" more?

    I voted for Feats being worth more because at least you get to pick whatever is the best for your build (and +2 to a stat is always a good backup). There are Subclass features that are far better than any Feat, but there are also a bunch of crappy ones that result in underwhelming leveling up...
  18. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Changing subclasses mid-campaign (or even classes)

    I've seen this happen somewhat frequently due to in-game actions/choices with Warlocks making a pact with a powerful NPC (usually the BBEG...) and Paladins whose actions just don't align with their oath tenets. Ranger also works pretty well with the specific instance of switching to Beast...
  19. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) The 2024 Ranger is Actually Pretty Good (with numbers)

    This is a great comparison, nice work! I'll echo the concern above that you're including AOE damage when the standard comparison is generally single-target. That's not necessarily wrong, it just complicates the comparisons. Even including AOE, your numbers that you're calculating seem...
  20. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) How do you work saves when there are multiple effects causing the same thing

    Same. Or if they were applied in the other order, the enemy would be immune to the Dragon Fear since they were already frightened by the more terrifying Beguiling Twist. Either order it would be DC16 to break
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