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Sadly, wizards don't even get this spell.

Spells in 5e often do more damage at lower levels, but less damage later on since they don't scale automatically with caster level anymore. Magic missile, for example, does 3d4 + 3 at level 1. But it doesn't scale. In 3e, it did up to 5d4 + 5 at level 9+ while still using a 1st level slot.

Oh wait, it doesn't. I got it confused with the transmuter's minor alchemy feature.

The object glows and is visibly magical, so no check is required.

[Edit] Nevermind, I was mistaken. Nothing to see here. :o

So that would be a no, then.

It seems that there is no gp limit to what you can create with Conjurer's Minor Conjuration feature. The only limits specified in the feature are that the item has to be non-magical, it can't be larger than 3 feet on a side and it can't weigh more than 10 lbs. So it looks like you can use it to...

Rangers are getting an animal companion as a subclass. Being a beast master means you're not a hunter and don't have things like colossus slayer. Animate dead is broken for all the same reasons. It's even more broken because it's permanent and doesn't require concentration, unlike summoning...

And summoned monsters and animated dead weren't? The beastmaster's animal companion is nowhere near equal to another character.

The problem isn't that 8 wolves can be dangerous, the problem is that PCs can summon 8 wolves (or even more at higher levels).

Yeah, I don't understand why they were so strict about the whole action economy thing with the beastmaster ranger, but let spellcasters summon/animate ridiculous numbers of creatures. It's a really bizarre contradiction. [Edit]I think they got it backwards. The beastmaster's pet is the one that...

To be fair to the developers, most of 5e's math is pretty good. There are just a few things that are broken, and the summoning/minion creating spells are IMO the biggest offenders.

It seems to me that the developers severely underestimated the power of large numbers of weaker creatures in a system with bounded accuracy.

I'm trying to figure out a way to use Planar Binding. Unlike older versions, the 5e PB doesn't summon a creature. It only binds one that is already there. The problem is that it has a 1 hour casting time. That means that even if you conjure an elemental and begin casting planar binding on it...

I agree. Trance is described as a form of deep meditation. I don't see how one could do that and still maintain their concentration on something else.

Different things can be composed of the same types of atoms and yet be very different quality. Even two raw, uncut diamonds can be of vary different quality. It's not just the atoms that compose something that measure its quality, it's their density, arrangement, etc. As you said, in a diamond...

Breaking Bad, D&D edition.

The spell states that "the quality of objects made by the spell is commensurate with the quality of the raw materials." Since graphite is a much poorer quality substance than diamond, I don't think that would work. That, and since tool proficiencies are required to create anything that requires...

I don't know why they thought it was perfectly fine for warlocks to be able to get detect magic at-will, but that it would be somehow too powerful for everyone else.

I think taking 2 levels of warlock could be powerful. You can get eldritch blast and agonizing blast, and do fighter-like damage at will. Of course, this requires investing heavily in Charisma, but it's a tempting option, especially for characters such as sorcerers and paladins that already need...