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Which is a shame. I know a number of people are kinda bland on the new Elemental monk, but I'm loving it. The level 6 ability could use work, but the subclass is very attractive. It really does feel like an insult that I'm denied feats or weapon masteries to use with the subclasses though...

One thing that still annoys me about monk is that, compared to rogue, its bonus actions are too costly. Baseline, level 1 monk gets a BA unarmed attack that deals 1d6+DEX damage. At level 2, you get Flurry, Defense and Step - each of these require a ki point AND your BA. So, you aren't just...

There's a difference between subtly casting a spell so that no one knows you've just hit someone with a Suggestion, and someone who's hiding in a tree with a bow aiming a shot. Like if you're in a conversation with someone, casting Suggestion is obvious because of the actions and accompanying...

And many of them do. Getting supernatural beings to do things for you is a well established thing we have mechanics and limits for that entire classes are based on. Undermining a good chunk of the game is not a good argument. And I say that ignoring core book established differences is a cop...

I've read everything you said, I just disagree with you on a fundamental level. From my perspective, you're effectively asking to give the ranger abilities with no cost. You started off with talking about conversing with Awakend animals for favors. And I'm comparing that to talking to...

You forgot the "for me" in there, friend. You may come from that perspective but its far from universal, and its not certainly not true going by the book. Divine miracles and primal spirit invocations feel vastly different from a more academic manipulation of raw magic. All spells are not...

5eR Primal Magic has effectively defined nature spirits as critters from the Elemental Planes (and the Feywild, it sounds like). If you're asking an Awakened squirrel to do something on your behalf, then generally speaking, that's a kind of spirit magic the druid and ranger use. You're...

Discipline points just doesn't sound good. Spirit, focus, ki... any sound better.

Druids (and thus Rangers), Clerics and Wizards all cast magic differently. Clerics pray to the gods of the Outer Planes to send a miracle. Druids invoke Fey or Elemental "nature gods" to do stuff for them. Neither involves yelling or "flapping your hands like a drunk mime." A whispered...

This basically sums up how druids cast magic. At least the animistic "Old Faith" ones. In most fantasy stories I'm familiar with, using spirit magic like this usually does involve some kind of payment in the form of feeding them some kind of mana or ritual. If a cleric invoking their god for...

Okay. Thank you for the response!

I'm not saying to identify it. I'm asking you how your character knows, inside the narrative, that a spell is being cast. You're playing a wizard. There's an antagonist dressed in a magic robe holding a tome. How does the DM indicate that your opponent is casting a spell to let you know...

But HOW do you know? Like, what exactly is your character sensing that is tipping them off to a spell being cast? Or does your table just rely on the DM to say "X is casting a spell" without any in character justifications?

So.... how do you know a spell is being cast if you're not allowed to know any of the signs of casting a spell?

Isn't this being a little bit nitpicky? Like, if you're facing someone dressed as a holy knight, is swinging a glowing sword and crying out "Die Heretic!", there's a very good chance that its a smite. Fireball, as a spell, requires a Focus, vocal components and hand gestures, usually described...

Considering that the original context was comparing Step of the Wind versus Cunning Action Disengage... can't we just assume that the "no cost" was a reference to the lack of an associated resource, and thus allowing the Rogue to spam it round after round? And drop the rest? Nitpicking that...

My problem with the monk is that several of its abilities feel bad. Like, monk feels too fragile in early levels. Giving them better AC or HP so its not as bad. They're still melee characters, not ranged. It feels bad that Weapon Mastery doesn't apply to Unarmed Attacks. If I have a build...

Ehhh.... On a lark, I ran a side by side comparison of all three Monk subclasses compared to a Champion Fighter, we'll say Human for now, though I do prefer Halfling for increased mobility when mixed with Step of the Wind. The fighter took a scimitar and short sword, the monk took a handaxe...

Nah man. You're not going far enough. Look at the UA barb and champion fighter - they're getting good at skill stuff too. Skill Expert and warrior classes are just two sides of the same coin, same as healers and blasters are just two casters. If we're combining casters into one class...

I don't mind class exclusive spells. But it... well, I don''t know how to feel about sorcerers and wizards getting their own Eldritch Blasts; feels like it makes them feel a bit homoginous. Though I suppose that's no different from the sorcerrs losing spontaneous magic angle too. Or expertise...