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Do you also require Battlemaster fighters to declare use a Superiority die before they make an attack or dual-wielding rogues to declare which of their two weapon attacks is eligible for sneak attacks? Because both those classes (and the paladin) were balanced on the assumption that those...

I don't have anything to add, except some (not all) folks seem to be forgetting that Wizards are special in that they don't need to prepare Ritual spells in order to cast them as such, they simply have to have them in their spell book. Considering you're extremely unlikely to need something like...

It was actually in Sage Advice, not a tweet: https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/sageadvice_feats And I stand partially-corrected. If you choose your own class and you're a sorcerer or bard, it pretty much works as I described. It gets added to your spells known and you can cast it with...

Pretty sure there's a tweet from either Mearls or Crawford that says this is exactly how the feat is supposed to work. As in, if you can't cast spells, it lets you know one spell and gives you a slot to cast it with. However, if you are a spell caster, it gives you an additional spell...

If you find your group is struggling and haven't leveled up in awhile, you can always give them a level "early". The next time they do something memorable or defeat a particularly difficult opponent, simply tell them they've leveled up. Nothing says your story-based level-up points need to be...

At 100gp per pop, Concentration and any sort of magic weapons circumventing it, I'm not sure it's worth a 4th level slot. At the very least it's useless for NPCs. I'm half-tempted to change it back to Adamantine weapons are required to punch through, like in 3.x/PF. (Though I realize Adamantine...

Generally spells/conditions that involve you physically attempting to break free require an action, so I would assume that was the intent here. Otherwise, spells usually call for a save at the end of the target's turn.

I wasn't trying to say it wasn't. I was just explaining why it's pinging in folks' AV software. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Yeah, it got nuked by my AV as well. Cites small number of users and heuristic flags (which is basically AV-speak for "I don't know what this does and not enough people have told me its okay.")

The campaign unfortunately died off after a handful of sessions, but I had an absolute blast playing a human barbarian with Shield Master as his bonus feat. Advantage on my bonus action shove when raging, then (hopefully) advantage on my attack roll to hit them while they're prone. I was the...

I think medium armor is fine as-is. Characters that actually specialize in medium armor are rare, but that's fine. It does the job its intended for. And I'd be hesitant to make the Medium Armor Master feat better, as it's currently the way to get the best AC outside of magic (or a shield-using...

My Paladin (OoD) has used it a couple times when one of his allies has taken a beating and are likely to be dropped before their turn comes back up again.

I'd suggest a compromise, where negative HPs don't exist as such, but any blow that would take you into negatives past your Con score would automatically kill you. So once you're actually dying, you don't track HPs and just do death saves, as per the normal rules, but any damage equal or greater...

Actually, any attack from within 5' of a dying PC is an automatic critical if it hits, due to the Unconscious condition. (And, as you note, the attack rolls are made with Advantage.)

Well, that's why I said you might want to increase the Death Save threshold. Also, I did suggest they would reset on a short rest. So it's not for the day, just until the party can find a safe place to bunker down for a little while and let their friend that got clobbered get his bearings back...

I'm wondering if any easy fix to "Whack-a-mole" isn't this: Death Saves stay until a short or long rest, outside of the use of something like Restoration or Heal. On dropping to 0 hp, you automatically check off a failed Death Save. (Since this would be immediately more lethal as a single attack...

That's actually an interesting idea that I think I'm going to steal for my game: "These gloves grant Proficiency in the Sleight of Hand skill and Thieves' Tools. If you are already proficient, you are treated as if you have Expertise in Sleight of Hand and Thieves' Tools."

For my game, I bumped the damage of the versatile martial weapons one size (so a longsword wielded two-handed does 1d12) and gave 1d12 heavy weapons (like greataxes) a new quality called Deadly that maximizes the first weapon damage die on a crit. It means for a dedicated GWFer, a greatsword is...

I've converted characters from 2e to 3e and more recently I've been playing in one game that converted from PF to 5E and am running another game that made the same conversion. As others have said, it depends on the characters and the players in question. For the 2E to 3E conversion, I was...

Yeah, I just had this realization this morning. Doesn't even have to be PWK. See an animal behaving strangely around your camp/lair/whatever? Hit it with Sleep. If it's a regular animal, no problem. If it's a shapeshifter, it will knock them back to their original form and still leave them...