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Slings also. It may use momentum primarily, but your strength still plays a role in final velocity. Maybe add half your strength mod or something, idk. And crossbows could have a simple benefit to reload speed based on strength.

Small correction; He is fracking gorgeous. Lol But seriously, I just watched this yesterday and loved the video. He’s always entertaining and informative, and pulls from fantasy media, gaming, HEMA, and well researched historical knowledge. I loved his video on historical, mythical, and...

I’ve never seen a player object to the patron becoming a bother or even the bbeg. Just to their character getting nerfed as a dumb “plot” gotcha. That said, I prefer the Warlock to not even need to have an actual “patron”. I think the patron model makes the class thematically less good, overall.

I’ll be honest even as a very permissive DM, to me the world becomes less believable and less interesting and fantastical if everything anyone does has to be rationalized in the mechanics-as-physics.

Nope. Sorry, but as the DM it is my call if the Kai Shan Monks have trainees, and whether a player can play one, and there is no reason to assume that their techniques proliferate just because the PCs have met one of the monks. Hell, an ability can simply be one of a kind. Only this one person...

Why? Why can’t there be things in the world the players do not know about until they meet it, that would require years of training under a master of that technique in order to be able to do? Like it can’t be realism because IRL there are things like that, so what is the reason?

Yeah I’m lucky that my players don’t care about the mechanics being treated as the physics of the world. If they did, I’d have to explain NPC abilities and remind them often than only someone who trained in the same tradition of sword fighting as the fighter can do the manuevers that the...

The feature, by the way, says that “you usually contacted your patron via intermediaries”. It DOES NOT say that the patron wasn’t completely capable of waking you up in the middle of the night for an argument about the ethics of burning down a shop in the middle of Luskan because the owner was...

False. Before level 3 the default is that your patron isn’t specified, but no actual rule prevents deciding your patron up front. That is a misrepresentation of the feature. The 2014 had no mechanical weight for the patron at all, while the 2024 version does.

Just as many people say it’s terrible. In reality it’s mid. 👍👍

What?

The Judges are Evil. Period. “Cops but 1000x worse” is unambiguously evil. Dredd is a character who would have been a good man in a different environment, and is a great inspiration for characters that want to turn against evil power structures and wrestle with the fact that their power comes...

Right and the most common reason to play that character IME is as someone who doesn’t want to be that (anymore, or never did) dn is trying to use their power/training/tools against the power structure they once upheld.

Talking to my wife today she had the same reaction I do to the idea of Sorcer-King Patron being an inherently “your character is evil” subclass. It’s a dark subclass, absolutely. You are a Herald of an evil power. You’re kinda fantasy Judge Dredd. But the whole point of such a character for...

All of which are better than reality, as it happens. Not an issue for me, but it’s interesting. The average travel speed over long distance on a healthy horse is 25 miles. Less with more weight. It’s kinda too bad D&D healing doesn’t help with exhaustion/fatigue. If it did you could see a lot...

It’s not even Steampunk adjacent. Airships in D&D are Either “here’s a boat what flies” or “here’s a vessel shaped like a bird/fish/other creature”, nothing remotely like a dirigible. D&D has no actual Steampunk or Victorian elements, esthetically or technologically. Muskets are...

Nah, they’re both completely absurd things to believe that rely entirely on a wholly irrational mindset. Brennan “The BBEG is Capitalism” Mulligan? Surely not! 😅

I’d love to see a few variants that are just as focused as the Gladiator but on a different concept. Like an archer.

I guess I can see that, but it seems like it completely kneecaps any character development that isn’t a huge mechanical pain the butt for such characters, making it basically just not worth bothering to play. Meanwhile, the Templar that works against their patron is an actual story, with a...

There’s plenty wrong with it.