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I just got the Xanathar's Guide to Everything book. There are some good, worthwhile spells in here along with a lot of junk and reprints. However, anyone who has survived the 3E and especially 4E D&D kludge knows that you only need to have two or three good options out of thirty bad ones to be...

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Also, in Adventurer's League it's very difficult for the Bladesinger class to get a lot of the XGtE spells. Not impossible, especially if you live in a big city, but very difficult. I think that even if the new spells end up being all that and a bag of chips for Bladesinger CoDZilla, it won't be...

If the new spells substantially change how the Bladesinger plays, I'll update the guide. But unless the spells provide better concentration-benefits than most wizard concentration spells, I doubt it. And if they somehow do, expect the complaints about CoDZilla and Pathfinder 2.0 to overshadow...

Hello! This is my first guide for 5E D&D, and let me tell you, I did not expect for this thing to reach 150+ pages. This guide was inspired by NADRIGOL's Bladesinger guide. However, I disagreed with the original author on certain spell ratings and I felt that a Magical Item guide was extremely...

Here's the experience that changed my mind about the utility of a Bladesinger. Mild spoilers. I've played the character in other DDAL modules, but my first real adventure was in Storm King's Thunder. And I played the character like a typical sorta-OP Bladesinger: focus on melee combat, use your...

Here's the thing about overshadowing wizards with poorer defense; they usually beat the Bladesinger on other areas, especially around level 14 or so. Abjurer has a lot of the 'don't worry about me, lads' qualities of a Bladesinger but also comes with the ridiculously powerful feature of adding...

I'm only level 5 (with a Tempest cleric, not a wizard) and in the first chapter. We've been to a couple of dungeon-like locales, but haven't had more than two challenging encounters each trip. The worst thing we've seen so far is a room of cranes and two assassin vines, along with some throwaway...

Yes, I will be short on ASIs. However, I won't really miss the +2 Dex as much as I thought I would since I have more than enough melee juice and AC. I will miss out on the bonus to dexterity skills and initiative and Dex Saves, but I could live with it. I started out as a High Elf with a 17 DEX...

I've been really tempted to take Sentinel, but I really want to max out my Intelligence and by the time I can take that feat I'll be level 19. I haven't used it in actual play but I've been sorely tempted to use it as part of my 'Ring of Free Action + Stand In Your Black Tentacles' gambit.

I have a Bladesinger guide coming out soon, and one thing that I want to emphasize throughout the guide is that: Your melee is a backup. It's a good backup and being able to put another body on the field really helps, for melee interdiction if nothing else. It can actually get pretty good in...

Take it up with the game designers. I played through Storm King's Thunder, Tales of the Yawning Portal, a bunch of DDAL one-shots, and am now doing Tomb of Annihilation and they frequently set up plot and even dungeon progression so that there's only one or two challenging encounters for the...

No, you don't. Unless the Bladesinger has a way of specifically funneling attacks towards them (like with the Sentinel feat) what's more important is how much damage the party is taking. It doesn't particularly matter if you're invincible to attacks if the rest of the party goes down before you...

I am one of those melee Bladesingers. And due to Adventurer's League magical item drops, I can do it better than the default Bladesinger. I have a Flametongue shortsword and an Ild Rune'd shortsword in my offhand, and with that haste nonsense I can do 11d6+12 damage. In two levels, that'll go up...

"Not Monty Haul" is doing a lot of work there, considering that pretty much no 1-10/11/12 HC doesn't think that +2/+3 armor of whatever isn't an inappropriate or even rare drop. The staff of the Magi and Tome of the Stilled Tongue examples were intentionally dramatic. It's generally not that...

Because then balance discussions become slanted to become unreprepresentative of the community at large. If how D&D is played on these forums is unrepresentative how most gamers play, then why should they care about any discussions of balance forged on a forum? Conclusions forged from these...

So it seems, but what good are any of their conclusions if no matter which side wins the debate, both sides will inaccurately reflect the state of 5E D&D is as it's actually played? If 5E D&D games which reflect the original design intent back in 2014 (6-8 encounters a day, no magic items) only...

Again, who cares about the comparison of the designs if the premises are unreflective of actual games, including pretty much every hardcover WotC published? It's like having a discussion whether New Coke with cane sugar or beet sugar is more popular.

Who gives a care what they were designed for if the design doesn't reflect actual games as they are played? I've played a bunch of home games, canned AL paths, and especially hardcovers and magical items are plentiful. After 15 or so sessions of SKT or TYP with a group of 4-6 PCs you'll have way...

You can't just analyze it like that, because you're ignoring attunement slots. Which are an extremely huge deal. The BS has their 26 AC, but at the cost of using up two attunement slots on Bracers of Armor and a Ring of Protection. The BS taunts the Abjurer about their bulge of +1 AC and saves...