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Overall, Monks have a bit of a problem with being too reliant on their bonus action. Creates a bit of anti-synergy with race/lineage and feat options that also provide bonus actions. Deflect Attacks is a bit overrated: It's a single reaction (meaning no opportunity attacks), that works on a...

Those mitigations are mitigated themselves. You can change out the prepared beast forms with a long rest. For instance, if you suddenly need to have an aquatic form, you can forget how to be a wolf mid session and instead learn how to become a shark, mid-session. The PHB only restriction is...

I would like to point out that both Rangers and even Barbarians are decently popular enough (trailing just behind the core-4 picks), while sharing similar themes of "natural-world focused" characters. I dare say that the niche is being held back by the mechanics more so than the other way around.

Using monster stat blocks but also butchering them up with the player's stats solves none of the core problems with Wildshape whatsoever. Wildshape is still too complex for the good of the general player base to do more than windowshop dreaming about how cool it would be to be a bear; and...

“We have news that will blow open this whole situation.” Vesile speaks abruptly. “It is vital to the effort, the most vital thing to the effort.” “Of course it’s important, I wouldn’t imagine you breaking protocol for anything less.” Callia cooly remarks. “But surely, the dangers were told to...

Well, if enough people want to keep going, I suppose I can too. What say you all?

Well. It seems like this game might be dying a slow death. Thinking about shelving it, at least for now. I know the holidays are coming up, and I doubt most people have time to get back into it. I will say, it's been a pleasure.

The damage difference is from 1d4 to 1d6. Nobody outside of monks or the oddball character with Tavern Brawler is using unarmed strikes as a rule. Even in situations where people are deprived of their normal weapons, they would fall back on a good old improvised club instead.

Dicelings. The d20-transformers that turn into dragons and other monsters. They aren't good for rolling, but man are they fun to play with.

I was beat to calling them ribbon abilities, but I can still add one thing: Even in cases where they have a mechanical impact on the character, they tend to be sub-par. Take Tabaxi Monks for instance, a d6 natural weapon instead of doing a d4 on your punches seems cool, till you realize you...

I fully expected them to get many accolades this year. They really earned it.

I'm digging the description of "Focus." I just need a succinct way to describe it. Where you generate resources while in combat, instead of starting combat with a set number of resources to spend, or even start off with an undefined number of resources that decrease under certain circumstances...

Well that rules out everything other than the Echo Knight, and I really doubt they are going to do the Echo knight.

Brute failed because it was the platonic ideal of a big dumb fighter, a niche people that people assumed to belong with the Champion. The Champion is instead intended to be the newb class, and people simply didn't understand the distinction. The Brute is, perhaps, the greatest argument...

I think the biggest reason components aren't used is due to the occlusion in the rules for S/M components and how they require free hands, unless you are using both of them at the same time. For instance, if you have Somatic component, but not a Material one, you have to drop everything out of...

The imbedding is broken, so I edited the post. It should link to a bunch of videos, not just one. But it should show up if you copy/paste the link. Works in an incognito tab at least.

Well, they still exist, for now! https://www.twitch.tv/search?term=mike%20mearls%20happy%20fun%20hour&type=videos You are going to have to manually copy/paste that link, the auto-imbed is breaking it.

This seems like a case of "you wouldn't actually know who they were unless they went by that name, as they have no face otherwise." Which would be an important thing in a press setting. For example, if I ever went to a Convention, you couldn't possibly know who I was if I used my given name. In...

Yes. And being a martial or a caster is already purely voluntary.

The Cleric was created to fix a very specific problem. Later on, they were revised to fix a different problem, namely the problem that natural healing took too long. Now that both of those problems are long gone. There really isn't any advantage to keeping the Cleric around, it only serves to...