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The problem with this approach is twofold: 1) It is heavily based on eastern martial arts themes, or more accurately a western misinterpretation of them, which is exactly the sort of thing WoTC is trying to avoid by renaming Ki into Discipline points. 2) Even if we are fine with the monk...

Personally, after taking a look through the different bastions, most of them could outright do away with the level restrictions. There are a few of them currently labeled 13th level+ that I think could be justified as being reserved for 10th level characters and up (the pub is not one of them)...

Honestly that's valid point. Thinking about it that light I actually would be okay with combining the wizard and sorcerer into one class. Making "I'm the books guy" a subclass, maybe metamagic another, the blood lines one, etc. Heck I'd even be fine with making them all Int based. It would...

Gee. It's almost as though the warlock and sorcerer both being charisma spell-casting classes that both gain their powers through otherworldly sources interfering with their life is too similar a concept and they should arguably have been one class in the first place with the player selecting if...

I'll doublecheck. I hope that's the case. If so I retract my concerns about the lack of ritual casting. Now here's hoping it actually makes it to print if so. Pretty much. insert starship troopers theme here I'll be doing my part! Now now. We can't have that type of heresy speak around...

Sadly I can understand a corporation's desire to cater to the bottom line by attempting to coddle and Pavlovian train an entire new generation of players spoiled by instant gratification and subliminally convince them that D&D is more like a video game the sake of lulling them into a state of...

Honestly I'd vastly prefer to Sorcerers to get a 3rd (and maybe 4th) Metamagic at 7th level instead and push the "Two metamagic at once" to 10th level. It makes more sense both thematically and mechanically as waiting until 10th level to get a 3rd meta magic is a REALLY long time, and it adds to...

So here's the thing. I get that it's frustrating to have the wrong spells prepared, or to on occasion forget to prepare a spell or two that could be situationally useful. But guess what? That's the trade off for having the best spell list in the game. Would I prefer it if they kept the arcane...

I for one would love this as a concept for all the specialists to be rolled into one archetype that just augments your spells of a certain school. It does open up for more development room, like making a wizard who specializes in staves or wands or something. This is all particularly...

And I, for one, will still be rolling Strength based paladins, while laughing the entire time as the DM of people who think making parties with all Dex and Cha characters is a great idea right up until they meet their true archnemeses: stuck doors, puzzles that require strength checks to solve...

The biggest problem I have with the new grapple rolls is that it's against AC. It makes no sense to me that a bear should be easier to grapple than a house cat.

The biggest problem I have with the new grapple rolls is that it's against AC. It makes no sense to me that a bear should be easier to grapple than a house cat.

Precisely, though I think the point of it was pointing out that it would mesh well with Flurry of Blows being a bonus action. A rewarding of Flurry of Blows could fix that though. Honestly I don't see any reason why Flurry couldn't just be included in the attack action by default. It's not...

My issue with that is that it wouldn't really help most builds until 5th level. If we're making it a mastery I'd ideally like it usable at level 1. I'd suggest making it be: "If you hit a creature, you can use your bonus action to make it Grappled." It keeps the "autosuccess" factor and...

We will agree to disagree.

I'll give this one a chance, but I'll be honest. I despised the first book. The first half was filled with nothing but bloated exposition and one of the whiniest and most selfish characters ever written that just reaks of being a Fan Fiction insert character, and the second half just felt like...

Honestly in terms of gloomstalker I expect/hope they will fix the wonkiness of the darkvision invisibility next pass. I don't think it's necessarily broken as written but just...odd. Like my larger concern with them being invisible to darkvision isn't even combat but all sorts of odd out of...

Yeah, potential balance questions aside I don't feel like the idea of "I attack them back" feels very defensive in nature. If anything I feel like doing something like making a opposed roll to try to prevent them from succeeding is sufficient enough. Especially because the intended point of...

As noted. It's at 7th level, which is arguably at the point where ki for the Monk starts to become less of an issue. It's also about at a point where most campaigns are either 3/4 of the way through. If it were a lower level ability that the monk got around level three that would be better, but...

And yet they did nothing in this playtest to reduce the monk's dependence on short rests, despite doing precisely that for the Warlock. If this playtest goes live monks will essentially be the only class that is significantly balanced around short rests and it is something that will be noticed...