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Which is why you don’t try to make those bits of knowledge part of the game, and instead just use the same skill check regardless, and maybe have some “tracking larger creators is easy, tracking flying creatures is hard. All creatures with proficiency in stealth are treated as one size smaller...

Which is why it doesn’t matter whether or not the Ranger mechanically represents any of that accurately.

I would just get rid of it and not replace it, as such. The 2014 ranger was conceptually spot on whether you took HM or not, but just needed to be mechanically better. Give favored enemy the ability to gain advantage against a single target for a minute as a bonus action, with the ability to...

Yeah I don’t love it. Even the familiar not being able to attack annoys me.

Interesting. I haven’t looked at it, is it specifically for A5e?

FF should definitely be on the Ranger spell list.

Yeah I think rangers riding their companion is completely cromulent and not at all broken. Say, Small, then it can be medium at level 6, and large at level 11ish. But tbh I would like there to be a mount option built in to begin with. (And as I said in another thread a little while ago, I’d...

Oh ffs I just realized I made basically this same thread a long time ago….

Right. So…let’s see, if the beast of the land were medium, and had a pounce, would it be good as a tiger, or is there other stuff it would need?

I’ll wait to vote But my wife likes using 2024 but the primal companion is replaced by an expert sidekick. She also used the revised BM for years and it was good, but she wanted to switch to 2024 and the dm for that campaign offered some class fixes that might make her either switch to pure...

Simple query I’m just curious what solution folks prefer.

It’s simply boring to always only have at-will capabilities with no way to “go all out” and burn some resources or take extra risk in order to get a bigger result. It’s also nearly an axiom of game design that NOVA damage matters and a class with X DPR without nova capacity is weaker than a...

I can see how that would work well. I wonder if a risk die in place of a resource would work, as well. 4 or more probably makes more sense mathematically, maybe even dropping it to 3 for some classes or at a certain level. And yeah I think that’s a great use of Bonus Actions, though I’d say...

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I wonder, what about tying the shoots to do these things in addition to damage to the Weapon Mastery feature? So you can do them with a weapon in which you have mastery, but not when using other weapons? So if you have dagger and short sword, you can trip and deal damage on a successful attack...

That sounds workable, but I’d probably just say the Spellcasting must still make noise, and that part of learning a spell is essentially designing your own version of the process of casting, so maybe a silent character has to clap or snap in specific sequence, or can wordlessly shout and hum, or...

While I agree, I would point out that the game also benefits from having an expert in such things that is better at it than other martials. So, while I agree that the BM creates meta issues that negatively impact gameplay, I think it’s important to have in the game. I would just say that any...

Then you aren’t reading my posts to understand. 🤷‍♂️ Have a good one

It seems you’re stuck on wording rather than the argument. but that aside, I completely reject the notion that a character can be an elf if they don’t have common mechanical traits with most elves. Same any other example. “Elf” has a mechanical meaning in the game, therefor those mechanics...

Yes, it does. If the PCs are mechanically very distinct from NPCs of the same species, then they aren’t recognizably people, they’re some other type of being entirely. If “elf” means something totally different for a PC and an NPC, PC elfs aren’t really elves.