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Small nitpick: I think your XP calculation for level 36 is off a bit. 34-35 added 25,000xp. 36-37 adds 25,000. 35-36 adds 20,000. Still reading the rest. I tend not to use higher level stuff like this, but it's nice to have it for the background :-)

Some thoughts... 1) You've included stealth as a skill, but not given them proficiency in it, so the skill is the usual +2 for a dex skill. It's more common to leave that out. 2) Challenge rating, as you've listed it. For this, I'm assuming that you intended the multiattack and pounce to...

Ouch. Well, fair enough if that's the plan :-)

With a STR of 8, how are you planning to wear plate armour? It has a minimum STR requirement of 15. With your setup, your best bet is going to be Ring Mail or Half Plate for AC 14 (Half plate is normally AC 15, but you have a -1 Dex modifier)

One of the games I run happens to be hosted by a guy who has tons of lego - he has most of the collectors edition lego sets, and a ton of other bricks besides. Sometimes when I travel up early enough (it's about 3 hours on a train), I build lego scenery. Here's one I ran during the 5e playtest...

There's already some good advice in this thread, but a few comments: 1) +1 on Versatile weapons if you go for Strength. The quarterstaff is versatile as a good starting point, until you get martial weapons. 2) You're going down a Strength-based route to be good at grappling. But you don't...

That looks very promising. Nice art, in a broadly similar style to the 5e books and with some useful setting flavour. +1 to AC gave me a bit of a pause, too, but consider the comparison with the Mountain Dwarf - Sure, proficiency with medium armour does nothing for a Fighter, but +2 CON and +2...

Hmm. What do you see prestige classes giving to 5e that the base classes don't? That is, I'm curious what you think a 3e-style prestige class would give that - say - new options for a base class would not. IIRC, you have quite a different preferred style to me, though, so maybe it's a taste...

I'm actually really interested in the 5e Modern articles - but since the last one was in that series (I hope it continues to be a series, at least!), I doubt we'll see another for a while. I think what would be really useful sometime soon is recreating a couple of monsters in 5e and working...

Ah, but the important point here is that D&D stole it from Thundarr thirty-odd years ago. Everyone knows that cultural expropriation that's older than a significant portion of the relevant population is perfectly acceptable tradition! In making a new 5e version of the Sun Sword, WotC are merely...

Depends on the circumstance. Simply having an archer predicting the path of the target is pure blind shooting, as standard - the archer aims for a square and has disadvantage. For a lofted shot over an obstacle, though, I might apply cover rules as well, or increase the AC. It would depend on...

For what it's worth... I used the allip as one of my tests of the DMG monster creation rules a while back. I'm quite happy with the result - it worked out about right for CR3 when I ran it: Medium undead, evil --------------------------------------------- Armour Class 13 Hit Points: 24 (6d8)...

I've been thinking about how I might do exotic weapons a bit. The core idea of exotic weapons in 3e, at least, was that they were strictly better than the alternatives but you had to take an opportunity cost to use them. Well, I think I can see a nice way of implementing that and keeping it...

And it's the same text for Clerics, Druids and Paladins. The fact that they're using a standard form makes me slightly curious to discover if it is - or possibly was, at some point in the playtest - an intentional thing. One to ask the devs about, I think :-)

So I opened the book to find text to refute you... Oops :-) It's interesting that they left the wording that way for Divine casters. While I agree that the RAI is probably as you put it, I've spent the last few minutes thinking about what happens if you assume the RAW are correct. There's still...

Not just that, but fully half of the top 20 are D&D books. The Pathfinder core rules are the one item from Paizo in the top 20, but 12th place after six years is its own sort of impressive, too.

Generally or at Gencon? One of the groups I'm in still runs 3.0e, and will continue to do so. Even though we've generally decided to shift to 5e, we all agreed that we wanted to have one 3.0e game running at all times.

... I don't think we're even writing the same language here. I cannot see how you can jump to this conclusion from the text I wrote. Yes, if I were the DM I would require you to do something offensive if you visibly tried to metagame the system by pretending one of your allies is hostile one...

No, the game doesn't work like a finite state machine. "Hostile" is not a message that appears in flashing neon above the target and it is not denoted by the colour of the circle at their feet. This is a table top RPG, not a computer game, and the key point here is that there is a human DM...

Nothing ridiculous can come from the War Caster feat unless you go against the rules of the game. If the DM allows you to metagame when you're hostile, then that is a playstyle that is already against both the spirit and letter of the rules. That's a perfectly reasonable house rule, if your...