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I should have clarified -- I meant the attribute for to-hit and damage. All the others (agonizing blast, celestial warlock 6 ability, oath of devotion paladin ability) add another +cha to damage. Shillelagh and True Strike both replace a weapon's normal dex/str modifier with cha (or other...

My thoughts are that it is certainly do-able. Despite Eldritch Blast+Agonizing Blast (with or without Hex) not being the end-all or be-all of character options, it's reliable enough and tried-and-true enough that you can add pretty much any-other-effective-thing to it and get something of a...

I mean, correct, but I think here we're in the clear, I was just confirming because the wording is confusing. If they thought it stacked, they'd end up with x5. see(notation added):

But what were they going to do? I guess I should check my assumptions -- was this constructed before or after you realized the tank was going to play more Leeroy Jenkins than protector?

FYI: I see both Thunderstep and Spirit Shroud, which are both legacy. It's weird, because dndbeyond doesn't seem to exclude legacy spells if you have the no-legacy boxes clicked. Certainly if I was designing one from the ground up. Given that it sounds like this character was pushed into the...

No one is trying to do anything (except answer your initial question). No is is making a spell to create holy water, they are referencing the spell (well, the process involving 5 spells, as Nikosandros mentions) that already exists. And people do purchase holy symbols and holy water. All the...

Supposedly Steve Jackson himself thought of it as a system to incentivize certain choices. I guess Combat Reflexes is price-optimized to get a lot of people to take it, because SJ thought it the kind of thing an action-adventure hero should have. Likewise, the whole 'getting higher skill numbers...

Re: the tech level -- yeah, we keep having to re-edit when 'the future' is. My nephew and niece are still watching Bugs Bunny cartoons that talk about the far-off era of 2000. At least the stuff on that TL 9 list are things we're attempting to emulate -- real time virtuality is sorta here; and...

<quotes clipped and moved around to touch on individual themes> They were in oD&D, AD&D, and BECMI (there called 'mystic') in roughly the same form. 2e made monk 'kits' for most classes and introduced martial arts concurrently but tied to expending weapon proficiency slots instead of a discrete...

Are you using the term ritual in a non-gamist meaning? As in just something a cleric does -- take some water/a physically crafted symbol and wave their hands over it and say some prayers? In that case, sure. Go right ahead (not that you need my permission). If that works for you and your...

I'd agree with this with a qualified 'sort of.' DMs definitely populate NPCs-built-as-PCs by rolling up statlines. However, NPCs can also be statless 0th-levels, or attribute-less human/demi-human monster manual entries. Between this, and simply nothing in the early books stating it as such...

I might be missing something, but how has the new background system changed this specific aspect? DNDBeyond doesn't seem to yet have the build-your-own functionality for 2024 backgrounds (outside homebrew), but both 2014 and 2024 let you build your own. I watched the leadup to this with mild...

The way I describe Symbaroum's 'Skills' are sets of D&D 3e-like feat chains, excepting that each chain is 3 deep. The model isn't inherently more abusable than any other build-a-bear system (see: any and all of the point-buy systems); it just seemed that the designers drank heavily from the well...

One way to look at it is that you are punished for not using 2H or 2WF strategies... provided you do not count the opportunity cost of investing in those fighting strategies. They each outperform S&B in damage -- provided you go all in on those strategies, taking the feats and fighting styles...

No, I mentioned that: -- It's baked into the build concept -- this is a str-focused multiclass. Since you are not casting much during combat, you don't need a high charisma as much as other warlocks. Nothing in Pact of Blade requires you to use charisma. Likewise, Thirsting Blade and Devouring...

I remember a semi-common character concept with D&D '14 combining barbarian and warlock. I'm interested in whether it plays out differently now (and if any rules changes make it unviable or unsatisfying). Generally the build is Barbarian 1/ Warlock (bladelock) 1-19 or Barbarian 5 / Warlock (any)...

<quotes clipped to focus on narrow point> Specific to niche and protection -- D&D as a game, focuses on specific things at the expense of others. Being able to do certain things is exciting or not based on whether the rest of the game facilitates them. In a super-low-magic homebrew, I had a...

So evil MacGuyver?

As others have said, rather than actual math complexity it is mostly going to be math fiddliness (remembering if the -2 on the WvsAC table is to AC or the attack roll, multiply damage by 150% before or after applying damage resistance) or trivial-but-constant/massively-multiple (a dozen+...

And has made statements in support of GLBT rights. And is a Swifty. And a rudimentary functional adult*. My point wasn't all the ways it doesn't makes sense, just how limited it is that it would make sense. Mostly it seems that he is what they want to be -- as conventionally attractive as**...