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So I noticed that the 5e Warlock has unseen servant as a possible spell known. Since warlock spells recover with a short rest, this means a warlock could have a near permanent unseen servant to do his bidding, both in and out of combat. So, what can you do with everyone's favorite invisible...

Why not just use the stats for the Ogre? That is technically a large sized giant. If you really want large giants, remember a few things: Monsters melee damage is based on size. Medium does 1W, large 2W, huge 3W. Large sized creatures can be grappled and soved by medium ones, huge cannot. Size...

Exactly! My thought process was that if you could just improvise it, you don't need a maneuver for it. Maneuvers should be for those exceptional martial exploits that cannot be replicated through mere improvisation.

So my very first iteration of the class (from early 2013) actually used Ki as a resource (before the monk even existed mind you). Testing led to some problems though that I feel are shared by classes like the monk, battlemaster, and warlock. Abilities based on limited use resources don't lead to...

You clearly haven't been reading anything I have been posting. I have stated repeatedly that doing damage is the best option THE MAJORITY OF THE TIME. I never once said all the time. That is all you. I have given math to back up the fact that all of your so called "examples" of improvisation...

Sorry to break it to you Sacrosanct, but you started the table flipping example when resonding to Jack_the_Lad about "tactically interesting choices" in combat. The Heavy Armor Mastery feat has nothing to do with tactically interesting choices in combat. I came in later and said that dealing...

Utility is probably the hardest thing to come up with for martial characters. I really miss 4e utility powers and skill utilities. 5e was going the right direction with "expert feats", but then scrapped that concept. If you have any ideas for increasing utility, I am all ears. Any suggestions...

Let us look at the shove action for example. Given the typical monsters ACs, having advantage will give you +25% damage on melee attacks. So, as a level 11 fighter, is it worth shoving an enemy with one of your attacks if there is another level 11 fighter in your party? You are giving up 1...

While you are technically correct, you are also very wrong. Nine times in ten, doing more damage is the best option. You can easily do the math to calculate this. The only exception to this is spells because spells can produce wonderous effects far more potent than imrpovisation could ever hope...

I hope to have subclasses for Tiger Claw and White Raven soon. It takes a lot of work to even get a rough draft of these though, so soon is a relative term. As to legendary strikes requiring level 15, I actually made that change across the board. I want legendary strikes to truly be...

This complaint isn't DM specific. It has come up many times trhough many games with many different DMs. Your kobold example doesn't show anything either. The combat encounter could have been skipped and a kobold could have fled to warn the warrens as soon as he sees the PCs. The same effect is...

I mean that from a player side, I do not find them worth the time. They are generally so trivial that our party is able to steamroll them. They are fights that our party will clearly win and do so within just a few rounds of combat. They serve no other purpose than to drain our resources. I...

It says that, but the numbers don't support their claim. Usually 5 or fewer hard encounters is over the XP budget for the day. At level 14 (randomly picked) for example, 6 medium encounters is the whole XP budget for the day. Only 3.94 Hard encounters is the entire xp budget and for the day...

Permanent advantage on saving throws really isn't all that great. If you have 10 Wisdom and are facing a DC 19 Wis save (dragon's fear, lich's dominate, wizard's hold person, etc) advantage only brings your chance to save up to 19% from 10%. The monk's proficiency in all saving throws (and...

Step 1. Go to the DMG where it gives the encounter building guidelines. Step 2. Actually read those guidelines. Step 3. Realize that 3 deadly encounters per day or 5 hard encounters per day are within these guidelines. Step 4. Realize that 6-8 encounters per day is a myth Easy and medium...

Note: You only have 6-8 combats per day if you use medium and easy difficulty encounters. IMHO, medium and easy difficulty encounters aren't even worth running. If you only use deadly and hard encounters you will have only about 4 encounters per day. The barbarian can rage 4 times per day by...

Yeah, I guess saying it was as complex as the battlemaster might have been a little overly optimisitc. But then again, the battlemaster is rather confusing in how its maneuvers work. Some of them you use before making your attack roll, and some after. Some of them use your reaction, others use...

i'm 100% sure this is incorrect. The interacting with an object is for drawing or stowing rules. To flip a table, you would have to do something like the Improvise action or maybe the Use an Object action.

Ah, I think you missed something about maneuvers. Except for legendary maneuvers, all maneuvers can be used any time you expend your combat focus. This means that you will be choosing a maneuver about two-thirds of the time, with the other times being the times you simply make basic attacks. I...

1. Be a warlock. 2. Get shillelagh with the magic initiate feat or something. Your pact weapon can now use Charisma for attack and damage rolls. 3. Whenever you summon your pact weapon, yell "SHILLELAGH!"