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Wait, they went from 2d8 for a 1st level slot to 1d4?! Yeah, we ain't swapping to that. My wife plays a paladin and I need to sleep in the house.

Most 5e combats struggle to go over 3 rounds. So that's 3d4 (7.5) at 1st, 6d4 (15) at 5th level for a 1st level slot, though odds are good one or two attacks miss. Damage up front should be worth more than damage later, so the expected damage output of Divine Favor should exceed that of a...

How much does the new baseline 1st level Divine Smite deal?

Dear lord I'd forgotten Hail of Thorns used concentration. A 2nd level spell slot for d10 save for half is abysmal.

For Great Weapon Master, is the proficiency bonus to damage bonus for all attacks or just one per turn?

I love that goofy pic, and mentally fill in the thumbs up. I've also thought of it as fish Beavis. "Water! Water!"

How long does full plate take to make in a world with easy, unlimited magic? Where it can draw on techniques where plate has been made for THOUSDANDS of years? By dwarven artisans who hone their trade for hundreds of years compared to some real world schlub who maybe works the forge for 30 tops...

We roleplay a lot, including in combat, but action combat is why I play and run D&D. Characters interactions with NPC is why combat can have stakes, but the action is the draw. D&D is a bad game for social resolution compared to modern game design and I have no interest in the pixel bitching of...

Honestly? Yes. Otherwise I won't bother will all of the jank that comes with D&D. I'm not going to deal with all the fiddly knobs and dials when combat is just a sack of HP trading whacks with another sack of HP for d6 damage. I'd play an actual rules light game.

D&D has always sucked at simulating anything real and certainly is not a "game designer game". You spoil your own fun by peeking behind the curtain and bringing a magnifying glass to catch the strings and hatches, then gripe you can't enjoy the magic show. Stop hitting yourself! And I don't...

That isn't expending a limited resource.

I'm talking about the actual use of the ability at the table being disruptive and slowing down play. Nothing about in-game fiction. Expending a resource to force a reroll is more powerful than expending a resource to impose disadvantage. No one is going to make a monster reroll a 4. But you...

Getting a 20% universal discount is no more absurd than getting the same +X to persuade a beholder, elf, or awakened mongoose. If you can accept one, the other should be easy enough.

Charisma, persuasion, intimidation, deception etc are already universal.

The issue isn't the luck, it's that your decision to use it needs to happen after you are targeted, but before the roll is made and the outcome known. That's the problem. It interrupts the flow of play.

Recharge rolls on monster powers. Initiative where everyone daintily pauses whole the person before them finishes their turn before they start running. Dodging fireballs with a Dex save without actually moving. Armor Class. Hell, levels and hit points. The whole game is an abstraction. If it's...

You limit classes to fighters, barbarians, monks and rogues? Because otherwise there's magic in every single encounter in 5e.

You can simply describe the reason once or twice, then ignore it afterwards, much like any scutwork in D&D. One time it's because of a cosmetic defect, another time it's because they get a friend of a friend discount, another time because the crafter shows them a trick and they vendor is...

True, but spending a feat that amounts to "you have a club" is trash.