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Just so we're clear, those examples don't have a choice in the matter. Well, one does. Melisandre _does_ in fact use shadow creatures and entropy curses against her enemies. In fact, she doesn't do a whole lot of fireball-y stuff at all. Most genres are about specialization. D&D is strangely...

Other than the Drakes (Ambush and Guard), what do you mean? I mean, I haven't really seen a better name for them, and the rest all look fairly generic.

If your goal is to run in and look really dangerous, then have all the monsters try to kill you (and likely succeed), that is also my experience ;) For fighters, it also depends on the range the fights start at. Going first can often mean it's worth delaying until enemies are closer to you, for...

You're still better off taking +2 to Int a couple times before Elemental Adept. And if they have any other generic spellcasting feat, probably that beforehand too. And maybe even +2 Dex or +2 Con beforehand. It's nice to have, but it's hardly must have. Or even all that good.

I've tried armor as DR in a lot of systems, and I've generally come to the conclusion that it's a bad idea. Which is a real shame, but there you go. Earthdawn was the best imo, but it tended to have less attacks than D&D, you could bypass armor with a good attack roll, and damage was less...

Just think, the feat could have been a magnitude simpler if it just doubled the number of hit dice you can use for resting and would be a more solid feat for a majority of PCs (ie, without gaming the exact Con you have). On the downside, it wouldn't have spawned pages and pages of outrage and...

And that still wouldn't be broken. Maybe if it healed 1500 per hit die it'd be broken, but even then I'm not convinced. It has zero impact on an encounter, only comes up during 1-hour breaks, only really matters for 1/2 your level of them (what you get back per day), etc. It's like saying...

15. There's also no point to him rolling. And it's also not worth banning, because it _so doesn't matter_. Especially not if he had to invest to get that 20 Con instead of through magically awesome rolled stats. If you roll stats and somehow he has a 20 Int and Con and a feat before 20th level...

Yeah, kudos to them on taking steps like that :)

No, the value of +1 stat is equal to +1 stat. Whether that's in point buy, feat cost, magic item, or whatever. Because you can keep adding onto things, it eventually works out. It doesn't matter if right this very second it happens to be slightly better (or worse!). Alternatively, change point...

Eh, feats which give out a stat point should also give out a stat point's worth of remaining feat. Otherwise they should only ever be taken as the last stat point you ever take. Which is to say, it would be bad design if feats are balanced assuming +1 to a stat is worth 3/4 of a feat, since we...

Thankfully, we can compare the value of feats against 2 points of ability score. It's a rather simple and solid benchmark of quality, really.

Your ability to hit matters more the greater your chance of missing (that is to say, if you needed a 3 to hit, going to a 2 is not as big a swing as going from needing a 12 to an 11). At least in terms of average damage dealt, how often your character feels successful, and consistent ability to...

For Second Wind, replace the fighter's HD with d12, then let the fighter spend a hit die to heal whenever he succeeds on a death save. For Action Surge, how about let the fighter have a bonus action to move or charge at the start of any combat he's not surprised, and get a single swing on a...

Ah, yeah, I hit that same problem with 3E, HERO, Dragon Age, etc. Folks want a fair share of combat, but you want to avoid "boring easy encounters" so have big knockdown dragfests that can take hours. I really wish I had a magic wand that just made people faster at the combat portions of the...

Nah, 4E was lasered in on D&D as an action movie. It was very much about the story/plot, as any well designed blockbuster might be. It _was_ an awful lot less about exploring corridors 10-ft at a time and tracking rations, for sure, but even much maligned skill challenges were actually a story...

Went through a series of encounters once where the wizard dropped in every encounter, cause no one was really trying to grab my attention other than him. Eventually they adjusted their tactics accordingly, but it did make me miss DM incentives like 4E to funnel attacks.

Since my stat preference for wizards goes Int, Dex, Con in that order, with Str at the very bottom no matter how the others go, this fascination with dwarven wizards really feels odd. I mean, sure, at like 1st level they're special, but once you're out of apprentice tier they're a lot less...

They could always make Resilient work like the way they did classes - one save that matters, one save that doesn't.

Okay, thanks. It was off in one key area, an item I hope to never ever see :)