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Add your expertise die to the attack roll.

I'll have you know I am an accomplished Battlemaster, good sir, not an illiterate savage. If I want to improve my accuracy, I'll use Feint for advantage and an extra d10 damage on my first attack, then use precision attack on the next four.

Too lazy for real math, but level 11 fighter with great weapon master and +5 str using action surge: 12d6+90

I don't know about 1e or 2e, but in 3e WOTC couldn't really do much about the issue thanks to third-party splatbooks. And Mearls actually did talk about this at some point; he said basically what I did, if I recall. Sorry I don't have an actual source for that. Anyway, martial power creep...

I definitely think they did a better job than 3e, and there are real tradeoffs to any of the "broken" ideas I've seen so far. But to the degree that the game can be broken, it's almost certainly through multiclassing.

A lot of people seem to be looking at the PHB and complaining about issues they foresee 2 years from now. I don't think a structural "fix" is needed here; if WOTC is going to be stupid and introduce power creep, they can do so just as easily with new martial feats and subclasses as they can with...

Multiclassing is probably your best bet. Start your wizard with a single level of life cleric and you get heavy armor, healing spells that you can scale up, etc.

No, it's not a good thing if there is no guidance as to the relative value these items. A suit of +1 armor and bracers of defense are both "rare." One will boost a fighter's AC by 1 over mundane equipment and another will boost a monk or dragon sorcerer or barbarian's AC by 3. Are novice DMs...

If it's not just as rare as +3 armor, it is extremely undercosted. You can care about that or not but it's pretty clear IMHO.

As written, they do indeed seem to stack with monk, barbarian or dragon sorcerer armor bonuses, which is silly and imbalanced (unless they cost as much as +3 armor) and hopefully didn't make it into the DMG.

Hm. This seems exactly wrong to me. There are almost zero feats other than Elemental Adept that are designed to work around monster defenses. And they actively designed 5e monsters and stuff not to require that kind of escalation. I think it's very, very likely that the only reason Elemental...

Thanks for the info! :) Disappointing but hardly unexpected. Sorcerer remains my least favorite 5e class, at least at first glance. They took the wizard and ran pretty much the exact opposite way with it from what I'd prefer.

Someone said earlier that Friends gives advantages on social checks (but they remember being enchanted later and can turn hostile) and Blade Ward is an action, I believe.

Sorry to bother, but I posted this after everyone went to sleep last night. I don't suppose anyone could answer this one? For reference, in the alpha you could convert spell slots to sorcery points, but you only got sorcery points equal to the spell level, whereas if you wanted to use sorcery...

Gotta add the Sentinel feat too, so you can intercept enemies 10 feet away, knock them backwards, and at the same time freeze their movement for the rest of the turn!

People have mentioned trading sorcery points for spell slots. I get that you can spend 2 sorcery points for a level 1 slot, but can yo also "trade in" a level 1 slot for 2 sorcery points, or do you only get one point like in the alpha? If the exchange rate is the same both ways, then sorcerers...

I think it's likely only once, but I think we can all agree that it was incredibly poorly worded and needs clarification.

It's not abjuration or evocation, so probably not...

It's as it was in the playtest and as you say: full casters count their full HD, rangers and paladins count half (rounded down), and eldritch knights and arcane tricksters count 1/3 (rounded down). Easy way to remember: 1/2 spellcasters get their first spell at level 2, and 1/3 spellcasters get...

Also, spells like armor of Agathys will help your survivability quite a bit. (From the Finally thread, it grants you temp hp and deals cold damage to anyone who hits you before the temp up wears out; importantly, it scales with spell level.) Plus the incantation that lets you cast false life at...