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5e has some pretty cringeworthy design decisions made in the name of legacy, which has led me to coming up with a few houserules for what I see are the worst issues. Attacks of Opportunity You can now make an Attack of Opportunity as an Opportunity Action. Every characters can make one...

Here's the thing. In the rules, the wizard can bash down any door the fighter can with a piece of wood. There aren't any rules for hardness or against trying again with an ability check. The only way to keep the wizard from having a flying carpet or ward dragon is gm fiat. And there's a...

I don't think it's an either/or thing. If someone has a character concept of being the tough as nails fighter who suplexes dragons and thinks that fireballs tickle, let them play that and make the rules support it. A lot of it can be accomplished with just a bit of reskinning. Player wants to...

Imagine if this was the attitude of any other hobby. Basketball, "Sure, the ref gave the other team a an extra 40 points at the start and sure, they get to use their hands and you can't. But c'mon champs, get out their and sink some baskets! Use your head!" NASCAR, "Sure everyone else is in a...

Too true. My point was only that in a game where you can fly around like Superman, stomp the ground to cause a city-destroying earthquake, pull down meteors from space, change reality with a wish, teleport across planes of existence, mindrape people into being your slave, and stop time...

Two things. First, say the wizard casts 4 level 2 spells in combat throughout the day. Then he needs to cast Comprehend Languages. Party's screwed! Oh wait, no, he can just use a level 3 slot. You can prepare 25 spells, cast 10...and you will will have 25 spells prepared. Second, if you do...

20 strength--which is peak human for dnd characters now--means you can lift 600 lbs off the ground. The world record is 1015 lbs. My change is that you increase the multiplier from 15 to 100 if you're strength is 15 or higher. Max out at 4,000 lbs. Ten times weaker than Spider-man, but...

Previously, I took a look at the Cleric and the Fighter, working from their Starter Set character sheets. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?356155-Analysis-of-the-Fighter-and-Cleric&p=6320288 It was a very limited in scope look, seeing as it had one build of each and went to level...

I have a sinking suspicion that so did the devs. See: Potent Cantrip. e: But really, Remarkable Athlete is really dumb as the catchall for the fighter's out of combat utility. In my houserules, remarkable athlete gives a proficiency bonus to all strength, constitution, and dexterity checks...

That'd be great, thanks.

You're right, Otto's Irresistable Dance is much more effective. Gives the Fighter Disadvantage on every attack. Assuming a dex of 14, that's +8 vs an AC of 21, hits 20% of the time. On a hit, deal 1d8+2 damage, so the concentration check is always going to be against a DC of 10. Our 16 con...

Okay...except that he'd only be getting to level 3 slots in round 9. Against our longsword-wielding fighter friend, the wizard can spend round 1 flying up into the air, round 2 and 3 casting Disintergrate--with the first one maxed out for 100 damage against our fighter's -1 or +2 dex save--and...

That math is fine, but it doesn't work for a level 20 wizard. Level 1, so not only can they cast it 4 times with their level 1 slots, but 4 times with their level 2, and so on. And it lasts the whole round, so it applies to every attack. So if you want to run the number against a level 20...

The main benefit of sword and board is that it's the style most supported by dexterity. With studded armor, you can start with 17 AC, and raise that to 19 AC, just a 1 point difference from the full plate that costs 1,500gp, and it can go higher with magic items. You can also make stealth and...

A friend of mine crunched the numbers with the monster math from the last playtest and the rules from the basic pdf to see how long it takes a fighter to kill an average monster at each level. Monster hp in the old bestiary scales much, much faster than the damage of the fighter increases...