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One fun thing 4e swordmages had was the ability to leverage their magical sword's abilities to enhance spells. So a +X sword acted as a +X spell focus, and a sword that did extra fire damage enhanced damaging spells with fire damage. I think it is a worthy mechanic for a 5e import. ... The...

A "shield" around the swordmage also works. In 4e, with the myriad of defender marks, the swordmage's Aegis was interesting in that it let you, nay encouraged you, to mark a foe and move away from them. You'd then use your presence somewhere else to tank, plus interfere with one foe's ability...

This may be heresy, but having Aegis apply to an ally instead of an enemy (protecting them) feels a bit more 4e. Like, you put your Aegis (shield) on an ally, and when that ally is attacked you can teleport to their aid. Or interpose. Or snare the attacker. Using that, the level of the Aegis...

4e swordmages where perfectly happy in light armor. It was the Avenger that was unarmored. Their ward does replace a shield, however. 4e swordmages had both their aegis and an option to swap between 1H and 2H. The weapon choice was relatively under supported, but there was some support. 4e...

This really depends on what you want from a Gish class. More specifically, what do you want from it that isn't covered by: Bladesinger Blade/Valor Bard Eldritch Knight Paladin Hexblade Warlock or, honestly, multiclass mixes of above, or the above plus dips. This is a bunch of "I cast spells...

Ridiculous. The neutral alignment doesn't exist. And if it did exist, it couldn't be an Owlbear.

What if... the archeologists summoned the souls of heroes who died to it already? (And those are the PCs)

But the "baseline game" is much smaller than that. Like, literally "fighters get 4th attack at level 20" vs "fighters deal an extra set of weapon damage dice at 17" is within the level of tweaking that could occur even close to the last minute (last year?) for a game. And that level of...

Then why are they one subclass? There is little in common between them.

While I get the school specialist as an overaching thing, it doesn't work. A necromancer should be more than a generic "specialist of necromancy spells". The fun parts of abjurer and necromancer aren't those that are generic "you are better at spells of school X by this factor", but are...

Spell Blast (UX, counter spell that costs X) is more interactive than counterspell, because Spell Blast cares about the mana cost of the spell it is countering. A "remove soul" spell that cost X, where X is the creature's power, and then does Y to the remove soul caster, where Y is the...

They are also all made of cardboard. Oh, I get it. I used a MtG jargon in the wrong way. I was unaware of that particular jargon difference of reactive vs proactive counter-play. I was not using the word "reactive" in the sense of "reactive counter-play", but as in "reacts to what the...

Good MtG play is reactive. Bad MtG play is cards that ignore most of the other player's cards features. This is counter, destroy, eliminate, discard mechanics. Simply because they don't interact with 90%+ of the other player's card. To deal with it you need to have cards that specifically...

How tall are you? under 0.5 feet under 1.0 feet under 1.5 feet under 2.0 feet under 2.5 feet under 3.0 feet under 3.5 feet under 4.0 feet under 4.5 feet under 10 feet Now, this is a 10 choice multiple choice question. But most people will answer the same answer. A bunch of "no, that doesn't...

I like the dual-specialization trick they pulled here. It is like the Warlock. You have your Subclass, and then another specialization. Scaling of channel divinity is well done. Turn undead is tweaked, with a L 5 auto scaling feature making it possible to turn them to dust. Life domain is...

In 4e, there is Astral Sea, Ethereal, Far Realm, Fey, Shadow, Prime, Elemental Chaos. The Abyss is a part of the Elemental Chaos. The other "higher" planes are all pockets within the Astral Sea, including Hell. Hell is has been sealed. The Elemental Chaos isn't "elemental plane of fire" or...

Sure, but with one of these means you learned how to port a Java app to WASM. Which, to some people, is fun. With the other, you have your bank account shrinking by 8k every year, and if it gets more popular it gets worse. I know which one I would be more likely to be able to convince my...

The problem I'm aimed at is that it costs money to run the simulations. Moving the work to the clients computer makes the only marginal cost be bandwidth. Free (for the provider) is a feature.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68265863/how-to-compile-java-to-wasm-webassembly WASM will run anything. Know how Javascript is interpreted by a JIT in modern browsers? (Like google V8) -- WASM (basically) skips the "compile javascript to bytecode" step and just provides the bytecode to...

The "fun" project I could imagine would be recompiling it into wasm files, and have the client do all of the work. There is bandwidth considerations (getting all of the data down to the client), but not using server-CPU to do the calculations is a big plus. Written with a bit of care, the...