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The book states that for any given item, the DM determines whether the appropriate raw materials are available. So you can easily ban and allow items at your discretion by gating when those "appropriate raw materials" show up in your world. I'll definitely be utilizing these rules but leaning...

Great question and I'm not the most useful there - I'm pretty good at assessing how a proposed homebrew option would be judged versus existing options from a powergaming perspective, but not that great at coming up with my own homebrew ideas. I've actually tried to homebrew my own additional...

Well apparently here, "balance" means "risk of characters dying in combat". Don't ask me why, that's not at all what I would define "balance" to mean, but these forums are a weird place sometimes

I don't see any particular issues with your designs but overall I'd say these weapons are on the weak side compared to what is already available, so you may find that players just ignore them unless they value the flavor over powerful game mechanics: Blunderbuss does gain 0.5 average damage...

Nerfing Sneak Attack would not be balancing things. Rogues already do weak damage with 2 sneak attacks per round. If WotC nerfed sneak attack but buffed damage elsewhere to compensate then THAT would've been balancing things, and I'll bet you it would've been popular (much like Stunning Strike...

It also sure didn't help that it released shortly after the OGL debacle so it had much less support from big DnD fans than it otherwise would've. Wasn't as much word of mouth praise when many of the biggest fans weren't too keen on singing even the slightest praise of WotC

I think you're being sarcastic but in all seriousness this is what the majority of tables do, by ending their campaigns before those level spells are castable

There is a long list of egregious misses in the 2024 PHB that WotC was clearly aware of (presuming they paid the slightest attention to UA feedback), and that they haven't addressed yet. This doesn't mean they actually intended to make those changes. For whatever reason, WotC's standard...

Fluff text gives us an indication (perhaps falsely) about what they intended the rules to be. Personally I think they did remove the word Hostile by accident, or more precisely it wasn't literally an "accident" but I think they removed it thinking that the word was not required and didn't catch...

This is exactly why I think WotC dropped the term from the 2024 rules, and then I think they just missed the interaction that War Caster would then allow buffing spells to be cast on allies. You could probably argue that this was technically always possible with 2014 rules by stretching the...

It's definitely strong, especially if your combats tend to last several turns, or if your DM telegraphs incoming combat enough to reliable get Shadow Blade cast before combat. I wouldn't call it busted though, at best it's similar to Conjure Minor Elementals without the insane scaling

Rules As Written, this seems to be the case yes. Verdict is still out on Rules As Intended until someone from WotC chimes in. As always, the ruling at each table will be determined by the DM. This does not work at my table because I think it is just an oversight in the wording. I may change...

I don't follow - how does True Strike give a Warlock the effects of Extra Attack scaling up to three attacks?

It also works great on Valor Bards, Eldritch Knights, and Bladesingers since they can use True Strike as one of their Extra Attacks. Also another way to get the spell is being a High Elf I don't see how any of this is "abusing true strike" though. It's a good spell that some classes will...

"Build-defining" could be a stretch depending on what that term means to you, but there are so many options to choose that are really good, so it's pretty easy to find one that at least really helps round out your build: Cloud is probably the best to build around. Multiple Misty Steps per day...

Great list! It's obviously all subjective and I don't find anything you wrote to be way off. Here's what I would change for the 2024 PHB races: Dragonborn are way overrated, definitely not the best race in 2024. 5 points is way too much for 10 minutes of flight once per day, only usable once...

I second this. If you want to do away with random encounters, then just eliminate them. I've never heard of anyone using random encounters in 5e DnD although you tagged the thread DnD General so presumably you're playing an older version where they are common. If you eliminate random...

Yeah missing sucks. I'd rather boost the HP on everything and have everyone dealing damage left and right. Just my preference Nothing more fun in DnD than scooping up a massive pile of dice and dumping them all on the table to add up

Well ok then I guess I'm bad at reading because I just re-read all your posts and I still don't see your explanation of which weapon mastery properties are causing issues. Can you explain again? Slow, Sap, Vex, and Graze all just happen without the player needing to decide or do anything so I...

Nick is definitely interesting, it makes dual-wielding actually be a viable way to build a character which it never was before. Push, Slow, and Topple offer battlefield control options. Personally I find that boring I just want to kill stuff dead - but many people will find it interesting to...