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The same with Lion Totem barbarians getting pounce, and all the other (mostly late-game) hoops many-to-most* martials jump through to get full attacks with more than 5' movement. *minus Bo9S classes, uber-charger, and all the other exceptions who get decent attacks with more than 5' move some...

I think they are both sub-optimal. The primary advantages of twf w/ Dual Wielder over PAM are that is compliments Dex and can be stacked on top of Nick-based off-hand attack. Otherwise it is inferior (as it should be). Both of them struggle with the limited number of situations where you can get...

The problem I foresee in this is that they two materials still have to be mechanically married to each other*, but the developers of the lower-level stuff will have little reason to design to ensure that the upper level stuff works well. That seems to have happened with 3.0's Epic Level...

Yes, derived from oD&D where it was specifically 'per a magic arrow' which was "Magic Arrows have a +1 chance of hitting their target and do additional damage to their target unless specified otherwise due to the type of monster being shot. Thus, a Magic Arrow normally does from 2-7 points of...

The amount of hue and cry over game rulings has never correlated with either how 'official' they became, how officious the ruler was trying to be, or what question they were answering (what they thought the rule said, what it was supposed to say, or what they thought it should be). The correct...

I'm not sure if we are looking at the same feat. For a non-Beastmaster Ranger, it looks like a very good feat. If both of your weapons are light, and one of them has the nick property, it looks to me like you can add two attacks to your standard allotment. Ex. level 4 (to keep multi-attack out...

I quoted the relevant part of the feat in my post. I omitted that this attack is on top of the one made using nick. I think you might be thinking of the 2014 feat. Right, so you can attack with your main hand, trade your nick attack for the beast attack, and get a bonus attack via Dual Wielder...

I think I know the answer, but wondering what others think. Beast Master states: "In Combat, the beast acts during your turn. It can move and use its Reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action unless you take a Bonus Action to command it to take an action in its stat...

I have no idea what you...oh, ohhhhh. Oh, that's not right!

There certainly was variation in how powerful casters were based on how easy the DM made it for the party to exit the dungeon and rest up/recharge their spells (making it campaign dependent). It's worthwhile to note that, for AD&D (in particular and in comparison to some in the basic-classic...

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I certainly don't think that (ex.) 16th level play is too caster-centric because the 16th level caster is casting too many level 2-4 spells. Although that they are casting 1+ levelled spell every round might be an issue (and that is a symptom of not enough encounters per rest). Someone else...

I tend to agree that (like it or lump it) a whole lot of internet discussion over fandom ends up being a competition for the hearts, minds, opinions, or team identity decisions of the rest of the community. Whether that's "controlling" hearts and minds (and whether it is okay) depends probably...

Yes, good point. This addresses the fundamental situation that makes the hot take become highlighted. It's still a balanced party though, just not balanced playing-player's-PCs or however one phrases that. I think 'hot take: ' ends up being synonymous with 'thought experiment:' most of the...

I have a theory. A lot of people have their identities wrapped up in their hobbies and fandoms. If that thing is not treated seriously and as a thing innately worthy of respect, are they? I think this resounds doubly so with 'nerd activities.' A lot of people into these activities spent ages...

A discussion about the 1E/2E 'balanced across time' paradigm with regards to the balanced-party paradigm should probably mention that the 1E/2E thief was a quasi-mandated* role, starts out low-power, and ends up low-power (despite a favorable xp chart). *not as much as a cleric, bashing in doors...

Not currently playing 2014. If a new D&D game pops up, it could be 2014 or 2024, depending on the people who end up being able to play. With regard to the overall question of "how are you reacting to the 2024 update?," my IRL group general attitude is generally "it's there."

I don't know about too mean, but there's definitely community baggage surrounding suggesting that someone else is effectively playing/wants to be playing/would be better off playing a video game. I think the described people (if/when they exist) are looking to play the gameplay loop they came...

I'm mixed on that product -- most of my complaints are about what they didn't do, rather than what they did*. However, I noticed that (a subset of) the fanbase in general had issues with various violations of universe lore/continuity (changelings being vulnerable to vacuum, etc.). Given the...