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In the "betrayal" scene, Sauron (and the enemy together) had just been cast down. He's at his weakest, they are fleeing. And an elf stabs him with a magical artifact (the crown). This doesn't defeat Sauron - it just wounds him seriously (kills the body Sauron is in, not the spirit), and it...

Sauron is a recently recovered Maiar. Gandalf is a Maiar recently incorporated. I'm loving the "As an angelic being, I don't know how to operate as in an approximation of a mortal body. I don't even know how mortal-like minds work" approach. Imagine downloading a human being into an ant's...

It is great to finally have a prequel story for LotR faithful to JRR's vision, unlike that fan fiction that his son published after his death.

This is what I'd do. The elementals are attacking, and they go after everyone (you choose to) in the Emanation. It is a variation on Spirit Guardians, but attack based. The original version, drop a 5th level Minor Elementals (4d8), then a 5th level Scotching Ray (5 rays @ 2d6) for 125 damage...

Make odd weapon damage dice be maximized. d4 goes from 2.5 to 3.5 (+1) d6 goes from 3.5 to 5 (+1.5) d8 goes from 4.5 to 6.5 (+2) d10 goes from 5.5 to 8 (+2.5) d12 goes from 6.5 to 9.5 (+3) 2d4 goes from 5 to 7 (+2) 2d6 goes from 7 to 10 (+3) Similar dice game, but competes well with duelist.

So I think splitting Concentration into two things might be worthwhile. Focus is a medium or long-term high-value effect. You get 1 Focus at a time. Concentration is something that can be disrupted from damage. When you have Focus on an effect, you also are maintaining Concentration: but...

So, Balance is more than one thing in D&D. There is a kind of fine-tuned combat Balance, where a level X character of class A and class B should duel each other and it is a coin flip. There is the ballpark combat Balance, where a level X character of class A and B both can contribute to the...

Barbarian complexity is 1. Rage and rage management 2. Do I reckless attack or not? Attribute-wise, it is str/dex/con balancing (do I play naked or not?) You also have to pick a weapon. Rages are a daily resource, spending them recklessly early on will hurt. Reckless Attack in an ability with...

Using a spell consists of "I cast magic missile at the darkness". Build-wise, it is "make yourself smart". A monk combat round consists of "for my bonus action I dash and disengage, spending 1 Ki. I then use martial arts to make an attack with a dagger (dealing 1d6+dex as it is a monk weapon)...

For an NPC, more fiddly than I'd bother with. If I want damage output to be at a specific level, you can just ... make it do more/less damage. I'm also not sure what EK/Pal combo would result in, characterization wise. It isn't super evocative? Optimization wise, if I was min maxing, I would...

Arrows are consumables. And if you follow the standard rules for consumables, very expensive to consume; they cost half as much as a non-consumable item of the same rarity! Every 2 attacks with a +1 arrow you are throwing away a +1 magic sword. Finding replacement +X arrows is difficult if...

Arcane Grimoire is an upgrade to WoWM - in initial 5e, they only gave Warlocks a low tier DC-increasing item (the logic being, I think, Warlocks only got a few spells, and them all fizzling sucks more than if you have more spells). I suspect D&D 5.1 will have magic items designed around being...

First, Rod of the Pact Keeper is better for a Warlock than Wand of the War Mage usually. Second, they stack. Weapons don't. A +2 Wand of the War Mage and a +2 Rod of the Pact Keeper gives you +4 to spell attack rolls, +2 to spell DCs, ignore cover, and regain 1 slot as an action 1/day...

Fugus-Rex. Sorry. Fungasaurus-Rex.

1. I wouldn't make the bottom of the pit be "so far you just die". Make it "ouch" far down. Say 60' deep. 2. Stick something at the bottom of the pit you do not want to fight. Like a T-Rex. CR that is high enough that the encounter at the top is smaller than the encounter at the bottom of...

Puns.

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My homebrew Ranger selects at level 1 if they get a Companion or a massive boost to Hunter's Mark - "Bond of the Pack" vs "Bond of the Hunt". Thematically, it is a nature-themed Warlock - you have a bond with a Primal Spirit which provides you with your extraordinary abilities. To make it...

PCs cannot, in general, access a full days worth of expected resources in a single encounter, unless it takes place over a 3 hour period and has 24+ turns of "engagement" with the foe. (aka, it is 8ish encounters, containing ~3 rounds of consequence each, with 2 short rests). So that argument...

Emulate 1, 3, 8, 14 and 20 ("middle" of each tier) rather than just 1 and 20. To ensure that things don't get too wonkey. ... The argument against BM isn't "this is your favourite subclass" - it just you should aim for ballparks, and including complex PC builds is a waste, as once you are...