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The Tabaxi and wildshaped druid start fighting over who counts as the 'kitty' and therefore gets to take the extra share.

You mean a Lorecerer!

I don't know, I can whip up a character mechanically in about 15 minutes even if it's one I haven't messed around with much before like Monk. I'm not sure how you'd make character creation significantly quicker without removing the interesting stuff. Coming up with a background generally takes...

That's not at all what the post I was responding to said, and seems weird to throw into this thread - maybe I'm missing something, but the OP didn't say 'I want a class that just burns things to death', he seemed to be asking a more general question than 'who is the best at this one specific...

One possibility is that the druid doesn't have a specifically 'druidic' motive for being evil. Maybe they just like power, or think "If I was in charge, things would be better" and fight to destabilize an existing kingdom or take over some area. Sure, when they do take it over they'll treat the...

It's really weird to evaluate a class this basis; you're basically saying "I am not automatically the best at casting this spell, someone could specifically build to cast it better than me, therefore it's no good at all." For example, Find Familiar is an incredibly useful spell - Familiars are...

Like TwoSix said, it's pretty common to have a mob of identical cannon fodder with one or two 'captain' or 'lieutenant' types. With that, it's easy to guess their HP from the start or figure it out when the first one drops. Yeah you don't always know exact numbers, and sometimes it's not...

Why would you use GWM/SS if you know its extra damage will do no good? It's not a permanent thing, you can turn it on and off per shot.

One thing people almost always leave out of analysis is that +5/-10 is also really effective against foes with low HP. If your enemy has a pack of wolves, snakes, or anything else with under 10+(minimum weapon damage)+(Ability score mod) hit points, then GWM/SS will automatically one-shot those...

No, this is simply untrue. You explicitly stated that the reason magic users would have a high dex is that "dex was important to to wizards to help them stay alive", not random chance. Reading exactly what you wrote is not an error caused by assumptions.

You're implying that magic user players typically made a decision of some sort to get a higher dex on their character. While it wouldn't have to be placement, the game where you imply something but don't specify, then play 'gotcha' if someone doesn't correctly read your mind when they reply...

It is truly impressive how many people loved it when wizards did not cast spells, but instead hurled darts at the enemy. Truly amazing.

Glad to see you came up with a cool party mix. Remember that your druid can help the paladin sneak with the rest of you if he's a heavy armor type, if he is a typical paladin he'll probably need it. IMO it's a thing people get from playing MMOs that are built around dedicated healer classes...

Not in my experience - just how many 16+ stats were you playing with in 1e? It was pretty unusual to have half of your stats as high as 16 in most ability generation systems - and if I had something like 1x 18 and 1x 16 for a wizard I would put the 18 in int and 16 in con without hesitation, the...

Yeah, this idea that wizards were 'better' when they threw darts most of the time and had a single spell that wouldn't work if the party encountered skeletons or elves instead of today when they will fight by using spells, cast lots of utility magic every day (like mage hand, unseen servant...

No, a good way to waste spells is to spam healing spells instead of taking down enemies. If a PC gets low, they can drink a healing potion or deal with it on their own - no more resources than if the OP plays a barbarian. If a PC goes down, the druid is likely to get knocked out of wild shape at...

The claim that 5e wizards with at will cantrips, ritual spells, two spell slots, same to-hit progression as a fighter, and no roll to learn new spells suck compared to 1e magic users with one spell slot, no effective cantrips, no ritual spells, sucky hit progression, and a chance to not get to...

Most in-combat healing is a trap, putting in effort to outheal damage is generally weaker than just doing more damage unless you are playing one of the really heavy duty healing setups, and those aren't required. The moon druid can heal the party tank in-combat just fine with combat wild shape...

Back on the original topic of this thread, do streamers actually limit themselves to only recent published modules? I thought Critical Role did a lot of homebrew stuff, but I've never gotten into watching any of them so maybe I'm wrong. If they don't limit themselves to modules that WOTC put out...

Moon druid looks like the ideal fit for that party. They cover melee with wild shape, summoned woodland animals, and polymorph, since your current group has a rough time if they're forced to fight at short range. They have goodberry and healing spirit for some of the best out of combat healing...