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Interesting questions! There's no right or wrong answer here but this is what I'd do: I would just lump Mining Tools in with Masons Tools, they're aren't exactly the same but close enough that I wouldn't make a new proficiency. Mason's Tools are Strength but I homebrew them to Str/Con (your...

I've played an Artificer in short campaigns and it's super fun out of combat but just pretty weak in terms of damage. And it's straight garbage at Level 1-2, basically unplayable until subclasses at Level 3, I would never play Artificer unless the adventure started at Level 3 or higher

It always was. Spamming Eldritch Blast was never a good strategy for doing good damage except that it's a solid backup option when your primary damage source is unavailable (out of range, out of spell slots, easy enemies not worth the resources, etc)

What is your revision to concentration that you are considering? It's hard to suggest something on par with an unknown Cleaving Through Creatures is a really weak buff because it's so situational. How often are two enemies ever standing next to each other? Basically never. For this to do...

It will be moot when (if?) it shows up in the DnD Beyond character creator without having to buy the DM Guide. Until then it's a pretty huge difference to many people (myself included)

This would not be playing a Wizard well, but they'd still be doing a pretty good job even as a mediocre Wizard, that's why they're so easy. You can't really mess up playing a Wizard

It makes zero sense to me that they are going out of their way to remove powerful character creation game mechanics from races/species (e.g. ability scores and feats) but then put them right back in to backgrounds. Custom backgrounds should absolutely not be under DM control anymore than every...

Good point, I sure hope so, we'll see!

I disagree on Halflings I think they're really well done, but otherwise I'd say great list. Gnomes in particular are just so bad that it really annoys me. Why did they dedicate so much book space to Gnomish Lineage and then make it complete garbage? Blank space would've been more useful

That's ok I bet the Sith do more DPS anyways

Spamming Eldritch Blast is just so weak though - does anyone actually do this in real life and not as a baseline DPS metric for youtube videos?

Wait so custom backgrounds will be available on DnD Beyond if you purchase the digital DM Guide but not if you only purchase the digital PHB? So that's why they were omitted from the PHB even though everyone was just going to allow them anyways

Wizard is the simplest by far if you ask me. Sure, creating a new Wizard character would be overwhelming as a new player without help on choosing the best spells, but in a world where Google exists, that just isn't an issue anymore. I've never seen new players have a hard time figuring out...

I find it really hard to believe you are typing this with a straight face.

First I'd say completely ignore realism and determine whether you think it's more fun for the combats to string together or you want the PCs to get time in between combats. Then once you know how you want it to go, figure out how to make that be realistic. Let's say you want the giants to hear...

This is what I think they did the best job at. The strongest feats were reined in and there is a wider array of feats that could be considered top tier depending on the build. What they didn't entirely fix is that there are still a handful of crappy useless feats (much less than before though)...

I didn't say "not enough" I just said weak. Rogues are not designed for high damage they're designed for high non-combat utility at the expense of damage. I agree they are fine, even with this method of obtaining two sneak attacks per round.

This isn't new, it's just another way to get two sneak attacks per round, which people have been doing forever. Also, other Rogue subclasses can easily do two sneak attacks as well, it's not like this is some unique Thief capability I suspect this will become popular since it's easy and...

My opinions: Origin feats are generally much weaker than General feats, which totally makes sense since they're available at Level 1 General Feats are much better balanced than in 2014 but there's still plenty of variation in power to fuel a million Tier List videos Fighting Style Feats are...

If you use Enspelled Weapon to enchant your bow with Truestrike then a Thief subclass can use the magic item as a bonus action to have it cast Truestrike (on your turn). Then you use the ready action to attack as a reaction on the next person's turn. People were previously arguing that it...