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Looks like I'm playing a Paladin, human Polearm Master.

I tend to see 5E as a combat focused game when they describe the adventuring day as involving 6-8 combats. We start playing tonight, though we might just be building characters and determining who we are and why we're together. In any case, I'll let you know.

I only played the mobile Barbarian, so preferring it is just a theory. I just looked at the battlerager over 10 levels and it seemed boring compared to the other characters I built. As for the monk, I wonder if the mobility is overkill, and it does cost ki points. With a mobile Barbarian, I can...

The first one is a situation I find myself in a lot, and have an entirely different solution which is to let every other player make their character first, and then I build whatever is missing. In fact, I'd say I do this more than 50% of the time. I'm creating a character tonight and I'll be...

In a 6-8 encounter day, the challenge is getting to the end in good order, not in an single battle so much. 5E's focus on that does make it a bit more challenging to run fewer encounters per day, I'd imagine.

I'm not allowed to say. Talking about that class is restricted to a single forum here.

The difference, which I can say after playing a similar Barbarian at level 4 for one session, is that the Barbarian can combine mobility with a reckless disregard for their own well being. A Rogue or Monk has to take care to avoid getting into trouble.

This was actually the second Barbarian I built. The first was a Dwarf Battlerager(from the Sword Coast book), who was more straightforward, though again offensively focused. One of the things I learned in 4E is flexibility=power. It was always my style in 4E to trade a little bit of peak...

I've never much agreed with any of the reasons people give for liking rolling random stats. That being said, I've honestly had little experience with randomly generated stats over the course of 20 years of playing D&D. During the 2E era usually we technically rolled, but there was so much...

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Let me describe my Barbarian plan: 16 Str and Con, 14 Dex, Variant Human with Polearm Master feat and a Halberd At level 3 I'm taking Eagle Totem At levels 4 and 8 I'm taking +2 Str and Great Weapon Master, but I'm not sure in which order. As I've played a session with this DM and observed...

From what I hear, you can also get good results from baking dice in the oven so they come up 6 more often and 1 less often. A friend of mine has a set of D6s I'm almost positive he baked. He rolls 18s all the time with his dice, and can't match those results when DMs make him roll their dice.

SoDs of course, but these tend to be daily resources, resources you have less of for the first few levels, and don't really require much system mastery beyond picking the right spells. DPR can take a little bit more work. Most of the weapon using classes can pursue DPR more or less by default...

I wasn't talking about the class in general, just my approach to it. The Barbarian I built had 16 Con, 14 Dex at level 1 and I had no intention ever of improving his defenses, going for max offense instead. Wearing medium armor(after I can afford it) and no shield, not being bear totem, and...

As a powergamer, it's more important to me to be on an even playing field with the other players. As such, I hate hate hate rolling stats. If somebody rolls significantly better than me from pure chance, that bothers me.

Reroll by suicide

I've played at the table with these players and this DM(if only once). You've never met these people before. I don't see where you have any idea how things will work out. Also, adapt to what? I've observed/played at this table for a couple weeks now. It bore little to no resemblance to the 5E...

DPR is the thing for 5E, not necessarily for me. Combat going by as fast as it does puts a premium on DPR. My fun lies in doing whatever works. In 3E, for example, inflated monster hp made control important and dealing damage kind of a trap. In 4E, the pinnacle of optimization was to maximize...

It's mostly guessing. I played the final session last Wednesday with the group I'm joining, playing a glass cannon Barbarian. As that campaign is now over, I've made some changes to that Barbarian. I helped my ex-wife's son build a Rogue for that game, and I sat in and taught him how to play...

I wouldn't say there are characters I'm more interested in so much as there are characters I'm less interested in. I made a Moon Druid and I have a strong feeling I wouldn't enjoy playing it. I built a crossbow Fighter, but while I'm fairly certain it's the most damaging character I've built it...