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Indeed. The entire basis of this thread is "What if the casters decided to nerf themselves to compete against the fighter's strengths?" rather than judging the casters on their overall performance including what their own strengths are. Whether they think that martials or casters are better at...

Even at high levels, I don't like factoring upcast CME into damage calculations: feels too obviously broken. At those levels its mostly unnecessary. I'd be interested to know how a slightly more sustainable strategy, such as maintaining a damaging spell and then using cantrips/lower level...

I believe that the discussion is around whether the cantrip that you get to cast as part of your extra attack makes you eligible to make the bonus action attack or not.

I'd guess the fact that Bracers of defence are more common than +2 armour.

It is absolutely possible to run Eberron with limited combat magic items if this is what is causing you trouble. 1) All the nations and several major organisations are in a cold war preparing for a resumption of hostilities in which magic and monsters can be expected to play a part. Anyone able...

Off the top of my head it shouldn't be too bad. Assume that the Paladin will be Dex-based, but they're splitting abilities and at most levels they will probably have less or similar AC to their Heavy armoured counterparts.

I'm not a fan of the new Purple Dragon Knight. I would like to see a Fighter subclass with a pet, but I would rather see two different subclasses, one dedicated to leadership and support, and another dedicated to the companion, rather than mixing the two and diluting them both.

There have been a few changes, but I do not think that the fundamental issues of the class have been fixed: Base class: While the Artificer is touted as the "best magic item crafter", it falls down compared to actual full spellcasters simply because they have access to higher level spells than...

I've found that it isn't quite as good as it would first appear (although a Rogue with multiple attacks is pretty much the ideal scenario. It only grants you advantage, not your teammates, and a significant amount of the time you're not getting the benefit. Unless you're beating on a boss, you...

I'd disagree. Weapon-using subclasses of full casters generally already get a superior Extra Attack than what the martials tend to get: - They can incorporate a cantrip (which scales with level, unlike a normal attack) into their attack routine. If they want to do something special in combat...

Yep. I've lost a couple of characters in D&D 2024 games and more in earlier D&D. The options to retreat often aren't amazing, with attacks of opportunity and opponents often having superior movement. Furthermore characters that are willing to just abandon their comrades early in the fight are...

Are we talking just "death" or actual "character is gone permanently from the campaign" effect? Because those are two very different things. Well, yes. That is why we had to bully at least one of the group into playing a cleric: even a low-level one massively increased our recovery speed...

Isn't that table for full-on Artifact-power items? Is there a method of curing the effect given? Pretty sure that there wouldn't be an easy way of losing actual ability points permanently. (Although at level 17+ when artifacts might come into play, the "cure" might be a wish spell admittedly.)

3rd level: Gain Medium Armour and shield proficiency. Can make a sneak attack with any weapon or unarmed strike. You have advantage when attacking any creature that is Frightened. You may use your cunning action to make an influence check using Intimidation, or an unarmed strike (Shove and...

Assuming that you're actively avoiding subclasses that already grant one of these capabilities, I think its only two feats: Martial weapon training and weapon master. You could be doing this combo any time from level 8 onwards. Interesting. What martial-combat-based abilities do you think...

What, you're upset a full caster still can't outdamage a fighter in melee combat until Tier 3? Also, I seem to recall that in at least one of the previous martial vs caster threads, it was you who was arguing that because you could get spells through feats, and all martials could get feats...

Soooo. What you're saying here is that the Caster version of cleave is, in fact, already better than the martial one. That's not ironic. That's logical. Training in weapons at the expense of their ability with spells is their entire shtick. Giving a list of abilities that only spellcasters get...

I suppose they'll just have to scrape by with only their suite of full spellcasting progression.

In both cases I was making the assumption that the DM knows more about the setting than the player does. Therefore the player might benefit if the DM were to share that knowledge when the player is coming up with a character that will fit into that setting. . . . Does that really sound that...

The sidebars that you highlighted? The ones that say "Talk it out"? Just like my post did? You can't (generally) play a FR Drow in Eberron. But you could play an Eberron Drow: there is two-way travel between Stormreach and Khorvaire. Perhaps the player would want to play an Umbragen? Or as you...