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Let's consider a burning orphanage for a lesson in alignments: LE would burn down the orphanage if he was paid enough to do it (or it fit his master scheme). NE would burn down the orphanage to build his new lair on the ashes. CE would burn down the orphanage just for kicks. CN would burn down...

Assuming point buy (or standard array), the reason for enforcing the minimum requirements could be that if you want to multiclass, you have to invest something at character creation with the goal of multiclassing in mind. If you're a fighter and decide to MC wizard, that's 5 points you won't be...

You could even take a page from the Elder Scrolls and make Wood Elves hard-core survivalists that live in (walking) trees. That ritualistically cannibalize fallen foes (although that may be a bit too dark for your game).

The biggest issue of an EK/barbarian is that you can't cast spells while raging... So Shield wouldn't be quite so useful. However, with Action surge and expanded critical range, Champion synergizes extremely well after you get brutal critical.

Not in the sense of previous editions where the monster would have a separate pool of "lethal" and "non-lethal" hit points (iirc that's how it works in PF, I only played it twice)... But on PHB pg. 198 it says "When an attacker reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack, the attacker...

The problem with that is that the 4th attack is the capstone of the 20th-level fighter, so giving half as many bonus action attacks wouldn't help TWF barbarians or rangers (or a fighter with a 1-level dip into anything else)... Or if it's rounded up, then fighters would get their second off-hand...

Extra attack is a class feature, so you get it at level 5 in a martial class. You could go paladin 4/barb 4/fighter 4/ ranger 4/ monk 4, and despite being level 20 you'd still only have 1 attack. Cantrips, on the other hand, scale with character level so you could be sorc 1/ fighter (BM) 19 and...

Unless a spell says it makes a weapon magical... It doesn't. Although a case could be made for making weapons using the Shape Water cantrip (first animating the water into weapon shapes, then freezing it), as it would be a weapon created entirely with magic...

If he's building a TWF barbarian, let him know that a dip in fighter 1 for the TWF style might be a good option if he wants to make his off-hand attacks more powerful. However, barbarians' rage applies to his off-hand attack as well as his main-hand one, and with Reckless Attack he's likely to...

A Gibbering Mouther. Because you can challenge and terrify your PCs at the same time!

I like it... Other than the probabilities, which are multiplicative rather than additive. With 6 attacks over 3 rounds (using the 1d10 weapon for simplicity), you have a 36% chance of having rolled a 1 or 2 on round 1, a 60% chance of having rolled a 1 or 2 after round 2, and the odds after...

They were in the Maw... And got out alive without anyone being eaten? That, more than anything else, makes that session a resounding success! ;)

I'm fortunate enough to have a table where only one person cares about how powerful his character is compared to the others, so our party Sharpshooter's damage isn't making the rest of the players feel inadequate... However, I try to implement enough encounters where the Sharpshooter (and...

RAW shields are just another type of armour (under the shield rather than light, medium, or heavy category) so it wouldn't stack: you can see that the barbarian's Unarmoured Defense specifically calls out working even with a shield, whereas Mage Armour doesn't make that distinction.

Using CR as a metric for encounter difficulty is a thing of the past. In 5e it's based around the XP each monster gives rather than what CR they are... So CR by itself is only really useful to determine if what you're throwing at your party is likely to be way too difficult (using a CR 10...

My group has a pretty wide variety in the races everyone chose. We currently have: Half-Elf Bard Wood Elf Ranger Human (variant) Monk Hal-Orc Paladin Aasimar Cleric Out of a total of 12 PCs, there have been 4 humans, and 3 of those have been the variant. Of the humans, the one non-variant was...

Well, the owl's wings were used for the monkey and the feathers were used to stuff Ray's pillow, so what else would he do with the head?

I'm quite partial to the Bag of Tricks: if you need a distraction, summon an animal and let it roam free! Or if you simply need dinner...

How familiar are you with 5e? Rangers choose which spells they know from their class list and can only switch out spells they know when they level up... And druids, clerics, and paladins still have a limit on how many spells they can prepare (spellcasting mod +caster level) from their list per...

IMC there have been a total of 12 PCs; 3 of whom have been variant humans, while I still haven't had more than one of any other race (I'm not kidding: the current party is a human, an elf, a half-elf, a half-orc, and an aasimar). What I've found is that one player absolutely loves the Alert...