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That's actually sorta the point. The DM's guide provided a random treasure distribution system that I don't expect to be used, insufficient guidance for deviation, and no matter how "unlikely" the interaction of a couple of these pieces are, it would have been awful nice to just give us...

I'm not entirely convinced that bringing up old editions that didn't use bounded accuracy to show how improved things are is really the way to go. I guess it's like the democracy theory about how Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those others that have been tried. Yes...

There've been some pointed responses lately that should have been resolved as Reports, Ignores, possibly PMs, or just generally avoiding being confrontational for no good reason. Keep the thread about the thread, not about personal beefs with other posters. /ModHat

5th edition claimed to be less about magic items then its showboat introductory adventure has folks walking out of it like a Christmas tree with a whole party having several permanent magic items each, a couple of which are fairly game altering. It's an otherwise excellent adventure, and I'm...

It's just that the horde of low level monsters will still be looking for 20s (or near 20s), even with bounded accuracy, when you roll out in your top defensive magic items, while they murder the groups who don't give lots of high magic. (Ex: Fighter in +3 Plate and +3 Shield with a Ring of...

The playtest prices look fairly borked based on utility and longevity, so I guess I'm happy they increased the price. "So, for the same price, I could buy a case of potions of healing -or- a +3 legendary sword?" - Some playtester, I imagine.

I'd actually recommend starting at 4th level minimum, and preferably 5th level. For many classes, that's the point where they get their first notable spells, second martial attack, and it means everyone starts with a feat so folks can pick up polearm master or whatever to keep things a little...

I guess an argument could be made that an invocation (5 temp hp per fight, good baseline AC, ability to see in true darkness) is reasonable for a feat, and I'm not sure I'd disagree, but if it's true then that means that the comparison initiate type feats are fairly awful. Though at least...

A warlock invocation for a 1st level spell-at will is quite a bit stronger than a 1st level spell once per day. I don't think the cantrip makes enough of a difference there. So... no. But you can probably work on it a bit more until it's on par.

There is absolutely nothing in the spell that lets you sweep it. It's not a death laser. It's a particular cylinder area that you can put on a different point. You don't etch a sketch kill everything between point A and B when you do. It'd need a _ton_ more text to have it work like that. And...

Moonbeam is much better than both cloud of daggers and flaming sphere. But that's okay, because cloud of daggers is only useful for blocking corridors and flaming sphere is low damage, high effort, and can actively hinder your group.

Optimal use would probably be a druid and warlock who could ensure that someone got pushed into it during the warlock's turn with eldritch blast, then started their turn there. Still, it's not a lot of damage and it's only a 5-ft radius. That enemy also has a lot of reason to disrupt the druid's...

Sure. I mean, he's only marginally more difficult than a flameskull which is almost a 1/4 of his XP. Big dumb brutes who do nothing special and can't focus fire are easy targets :) The hydra is a bit scarier at the same XP point - higher damage output, can focus fire, better hp total, better AC...

Ah, my bad - so yeah you'd want to redo the math for 3 and 5 sized parties, which makes it less interesting. I'm glad they addressed it a little bit. Anecdotally, I've seen fights with scores of kobolds and goblins. With ranged weapons, yep. If they know who to target and have access to that...

Kobolds are one of the creatures that synergize the most, justifying the combat multiplier, and that still isn't really my experience at all. Depends on the battlefield and how you do initiative, but 64 kobolds can get pretty much obliterated by said 5th level characters. Attacks and damage...

Counting XP gets very complicated to compare if you use the quantity multipliers.

... can you be more specific about which combination of feats and spells you're using? I can't tell anymore.

The only below half takes your standard action limiter on the channel divinity is a serious limitation on Life clerics. It's fine, but proactive is still going to be my answer there. Depending on the campaign, Turn Undead certainly trumps it.

The sad thing is that such a person probably doesn't exist. The person who wrote the rule that a life cleric multiclassing with a druid casting goodberry works how? Yeah, I'm pretty sure if such a person existed they'd have spelled out how it works in one of those 3 rules areas. For a variety of...

Err, did they say that? I mean, as far as I know, equal CR just means it _might_ take someone out, not that it's a particularly deadly encounter. CR lets us know that a Flameskull shouldn't go up against 1st and 2nd level PCs cause their hp are too low (fireball - make a dex save die save for...