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  1. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) What happened to proficiency bonus times per day?

    That's not really an unpopular opinion. Even among people who extensively multiclass (like myself) there are many that think the game would be better without it. It's actually really easy to fix, they need to buff the high level class abilities so that sticking with one class actually matters...
  2. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Defining "New School" Play (+)

    Does anyone actually play with recovering arrows as a thing? I've always just seen DMs say that nonmagical ammunition is infinite because it's so cheap that no one is going to bother tracking how many you have, and then magical ammunition is consumable on use.
  3. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC has called the new ruleset 5.2. Why don't we?

    I like 5.2, it's shorter to say than every other term proposed thus far. No one has ever referred to DnD editions by the SRD number though, so I'm not sure it's going to catch on
  4. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Playstyle Changes from 5E to 5.5E?

    They really aren't though, now they are just an aura. Their damage is now mediocre, support is poor other than the OP aura, and they would make good tanks except that tanking isn't actually a thing in DnD. They are being nerfed into oblivion and once people start converting to 5.5e, Paladins...
  5. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Playstyle Changes from 5E to 5.5E?

    Well only Paladins are being nerfed into oblivion, since if you nerf OP spells then casters still get to just pick other ones instead. But yeah there will be nerfs other than just Paladins
  6. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Defining "New School" Play (+)

    Yeah that's what he does in every one of these (+) threads, he makes absurd claims about new school players that don't resemble reality, then claims to be positively contributing by just "pointing out differences between playstyles" (his playstyle and the nonexistent ones he makes up). All you...
  7. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Which Setting Featured Already in 5E Do You Want a New Supplement For?

    Wish I could vote for more than just one, I went with Radiant Citadel but would also love Nine Hells, Planescape, or Spelljammer Looks like basically everything they've been publishing recently, I want them to publish more of the same topic because it was cool but rushed/insufficient...
  8. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Playstyle Changes from 5E to 5.5E?

    They did already nerf many of the most egregiously overpowered spells in the UA, so some amount spell weakening is likely coming. They can't just handle everything thru nerfs though if they're trying to pretend like 2014 and 2024 characters can co-exist. If you nerf everything then everyone...
  9. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook Reveal #3: "New Paladin"

    Nerfing Divine Smite to only once per turn is like being cut off by the bartender - completely warranted and everyone who isn't drunk saw it coming a mile away. Making it counterspellable and requiring a bonus action is like being thrown in prison for a DUI even though you walked to the bar -...
  10. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Defining "New School" Play (+)

    Come on man don't exaggerate, he never said you can roll a die and all your problems are solved - he has been very clear that in NS games the player just narrates how they solved the problem and the DM is forced to go along with it no matter how absurd it is, no rolling is required!
  11. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook Reveal #3: "New Paladin"

    I've literally never not once in my life seen a DnD adventuring day with 15 combat rounds in it. I do agree with you that WotC designed the game around this playstyle, but it's one of the most glaring reasons for game imbalance, because almost no one plays that way.
  12. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Youtube Reveal: Tieflings

    Watch the video, he does a whole section on how he hated that and WotC removed it
  13. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024+ Monster Statblock options

    If you move the Challenge Rating up to the top in bigger font then you get my vote. Otherwise they're identical to me I don't care about the color
  14. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook Reveal #3: "New Paladin"

    I don't think the video mentioned this, but in the UA Playtest it did not* so it seems safe to assume they would've mentioned this if it changed *Banishing Smite and Shining Smite did require concentration but this was related to keeping up the the debuff that you apply
  15. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Heroic Inspiration and Humans

    Yeah it really doesn't add any time as long as the player rolls the die and then decides to reroll it before telling the DM what they rolled. What slows the game down is things like Silvery Barbs where you react to someone else's roll that they've announced and the DM has already started...
  16. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook Reveal #2: "New Fighter"

    Action Surge is obviously exploitable by every nova damage build in the game, and it's crazy that they aren't addressing it. It really ought to be given out at a higher level, it's way too powerful to give out for just a 2 level dip
  17. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) The 2014 vs 2024 PHB Compatibility Thread

    Well Paladins would definitely play the 2014 version if they are allowed to. The 2024 version was nerfed into the ground in the UA, which might change a bit but the 2014 version is so overpowered that it's definitely not going to go live in 2024 without major nerfs
  18. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Defining "New School" Play (+)

    I don't get why you find it objectionable. Every new player has their mind blown at some point early on that "holy crap I'm allowed to just... do that?" when it first clicks that TTRPGs allow you to do literally anything you can imagine, and not just the options on a dropdown list. It's...
  19. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General The nitty gritty

    Every player: Oh right yeah I was totally tracking those, turns out I still have some left, yeah definitely.
  20. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General The nitty gritty

    Well I mean I did say TRY to be accurate, it's not like I said to purposely be wrong. But it doesn't have to be perfect to be worth doing. I'm fine with it being approximate (which is easy to do) and not codified with detailed rules (which can be done but is more work than I'd want to bother...
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