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2 out of 5 rating for Demon Cults & Secret Societies Disclosure: I backed both the hardcover and PDF version of this product during its kickstarter run. Demon Cults and Secret societies was a product I was really excited to see, given how much I enjoyed Kobold Press's prior work the Tome of...

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Er, what did you like about it so much? I don't mean to derail the thread but it seems like DCSS had a lot of negatives. The hierarchy of the cults was great, but the plot hooks were blase and bare-bones, the art was reused heavily from other Kobold Press products, 90% of the bad guys are...

Color me excited, ToB was a great product. That said, my latest run in with Kobold Press, Demon Cults and Secret Societies, was a massive let-down which I have been meaning to add to the review section on enworld. So here's hoping they have more hits than misses in this next one.

Yeah, I don't even know where to start with this one. There were so many red flags in your post even before you got to the CoS section I'm impressed you stuck it out as long as you did with that bunch. As someone who has had contentious or uncooperative groups before, I would advise just...

Any that are second level or above. Web, Counterspell, Hold person, hypnotic pattern, fireball, haste... the list goes on. This is doubly true for CC spells, since non-legendary monsters have a hard time keeping their saves up to snuff with the caster's DCs. How on earth are you arriving at...

That’s not even remotely true though. That party composition has really strong damage, and that’s about it. A large portion of the issues people have with comparing the fighter to wizard isn’t about DPR discussions, it’s about how fighter only shines in combat, whereas the wizard is still very...

I think the cleric is one of the classes way too hampered by adherence to its legacy within the D&D history, although I have some degree of optimism that the changes since its inception will continue. That said, they're not here yet... I'm of the opinion that the cleric needs to be scaled back...

One of my players actually had an arc about this back in 3rd edition, he was a blackguard who eventually ended up constructing a fortress in the Sea of Falling Stars on one of the more habitable islands. Years later that player was the DM and ran a campaign with his character's descendants as...

Pretty much everything. Its durability buffs do not make it a frontliner at all, and what it does get takes an action to activate and can be removed through being incapacitated. It's really MAD, since nothing about the class makes you better with weapon attacks, so you need either decent...

This is true, but they're more likely to use them if they've been pressed into wildshape, which other druids still occasionally make use of even if they're not moon druids. I do acknowledge though that it's not a huge price, but the fact that it gates the usage so hard on top of having a pretty...

At the cost of 10 uses of your reaction, sure, unless you're pitching some homebrew options of your own making. To quote the UA article: Hawk Spirit. The hawk spirit is a consummate hunter, marking your enemies with its keen sight. When a creature makes an attack roll against a target in the...

There have been so many I'm sure I'll miss a few I liked, though in typical form I am more prone to remember the ones I hated more clearly. I liked the sea sorcerer, and I'd like the phoenix one with some tweaks to use its mantle more often. I really liked all of the paladin offerings with the...

well, good thing I don't rely on handouts for the advantage then. Knocking an enemy prone is relatively easy to accomplish and grants advantage to all melee attackers against the prone target until it has a chance to stand up. So if the Battlemaster has knocked a target down, granting advantage...

"Xanathar's Guide to Everything Except the Warlord" Sorry, it had to be done.

Basically what Xeviat said. It seems solid, but with such a comparable level of spell progression it would be a really hard sell to convince me to go with a classic wizard over this one, since you seem to still have plenty of spells as well as decent frontline capabilities and proficiencies.

Sounds horrible on all fronts, really. For one, as Xeviat points out, it can make some combos, especially at will ones like eldritch blast, way more effective than they already are. Secondly, the OoA 'game' from 3e was cancerous and almost always ended up being a detriment to PC melee characters...

I've fallen victim to the opposite in the campaign my table just started. Rolled 6,7,9,11,12,15. Decided to roll a dwarven gunsmith artificer, we'll see how long he lasts with a spread like that.

This one's really a pretty mixed bag, all things considered. Shepherd druid: The spirits suck, pretty much to a one, and this is due to a mixture of factors. First off is that some of them are really weak in general, like the hawk spirit. Blowing your reaction to give an ally advantage is...

I'd homebrew them as classes and let players pick to be them or "reroll" their character into one should they be infected at a later date. It keeps power levels in check and lets the players slowly gain the more iconic and fearsome abilities that those foes entail rather than having it just be...