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Your argument makes no sense. This conversation: Player: Oh I heard it was legal now to use Milestones DM: Well actually not, thats only for Death House as a once off Player: But why? It would just make it easier to apply it to the other modules as well. It would be so much easier! is just as...

It sounds like these adventures were super fun. I'm really curious how these rewards are going to play out. Given that, as a DM, I can't download the module and know exactly what you have, you could literally say they gave you anything and we wouldn't really be able to deny it; even someone...

The problem with your example isn't that you didn't understand, it's that in context the wild mage is poorly designed. There are other spellcasting classes that get better benefits and don't risk dropping a fireball on your party. As a result, it doesn't create a high risk/high reward gameplay...

This is a bad example. The wild mage is an absurd design that takes marginal benefit for massive risk, when every other class has nothing similar. You missed my point. I didn't said gaining a magic item didn't have opportunity cost, I said using one didn't. There's a big difference.

I was actually thinking an across-the-board nerf to ranged damage might make sense, both balance-wise and realism-wise. Being at range is just too much useful and safe for the amount of damage they do. Something like: ranged weapons with the ammunition property don't add your ability modifier...

While this post is phrased pejoratively, I think it's generally right. The better way to say it, I think, is that it's bad design to make a game whose core premise is that half of the players feel useless at any given time. As D&D has matured and the designers have gotten better at their craft...

I can't speak for anyone else, but this sort of thing tends to sate my concerns. Generally, "we hear you, and we've got that covered--you'll see the details when the rules come out" or "we hear you, but we don't think that will be a problem in play," or "we hear you, and we hadn't thought of...

Were I to house rule one thing about beast master, it's that rangers could get the protection fighting style. Were I to house rule a second thing, it would be that Beastial Fury and other BM stuff used the attack action, rather than a custom thing. DPR-wise, I put together a spreadsheet about...

Unless you're playing in a completely combat-oriented game, I'd think chill touch is just going to be a dead spell for you. I'd swap it for something with a bit more out-of-combat utility. Looking at your spell choices, I think you've got some dead slots there too; they almost all take...

My AL character has this theme. I didn't grab all of the cantrips, but I'm trying to cherry-pick the good ones. I'm still leveling, but at Fighter 3/Warlock 5 I'll have: Thaumaturgy (from race) Eldritch Blast (Warlock 1) Sword Burst (Warlock 1) Guidance (Book of Ancient Secrets) Shillelagh...

While I think the duo is fun, I'm not sure I'd call a vhuman polearm master or sentinel moon druid "against the grain"

I'm not convinced you actually read my post. I didn't say there was something you couldn't do, I said that it's frustrating to do the math after an adventure and say, "dang, I'm 10 XP from leveling!" I know the rules, I just think the milestone approach is more elegant.

And? How is this related to the comment you quoted?

What's the format? What reading program? If it's a PDF in the preview app, I notice that it's really bad at rendering huge images; what I think it does internally is paint pixels equal to the map size x the magnification, and stores it all in memory, then if that's more memory than can be...

To be honest, I think milestone-based XP in AL adventures would be a huge win. It's really annoying to be 5% XP away from leveling. Especially when you're around a tier boundary.

This is a ton of bikeshedding for 91 XP. The real question is: if someone misses a session or skips an encounter, should they be stuck at level 2 and not allowed into Curse of Strahd? If they somehow end up at 299 XP when they reach the stairs, are you going to make them do the entire adventure...

I'm not worried about season 4, but I think this reaction is a bit unfair. @Steve_MND is reacting to the information as it's been presented to him; he sees gaps that he has every reason to believe may not have been considered. It's not a vote of no-confidence in the admins; it's working with...

I played in the tier 2 in the strategicon epic. It was really well done by the convention; hundreds of players. Lots of fun. I have some quibbles with the design of the adventure, but it was fine. The thing to realize about epics is that they're a different game than...

My guide was already archived on Google Docs, in a link that's the first line of its content. It could easily have been linked / referred to instead of copied. Regardless, it's done. We can argue about who should have felt what when over beers some time.

Eh... viper style probably is as similar to the physiognomy of a snake as a hot dog is to an actual dog. Knowing how to eat hot dogs isn't going to help you herd sheep, but again, this is a DM's call. I totally agree it's viable. I just think that there are more efficient ways to get mage...