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I really enjoyed watching Dimension20 use SW5e to run a “Starstuck Odyssey”, but it does feel a lot like playing SWSE (which makes sense) with 5e character options. I do plan on using basically its ship combat/rules simplified to do airships in Eberron, as the campaign is now in an era where...

No. No no no. Ranger magic is magic. Nature magic. It is emphatically not science. A spell to track better doesn’t need to be written by or for people who understand actual tracking. It just needs to mechanically enhance the ability of the caster to track a creature. That’s it.

Of course you can. No moreso than anyone else. Not pages of rules. I didn’t say anything about hand waving them. Tropes. Not real world stuff. Being able to track anything, being able to calm beast and listen to trees/the earth, knowing the names and uses of every plant and critter, moving...

If the Ranger is made correctly, Magic. Why? Because nature is magic and the Ranger is the nature expert. Even a spell-less Ranger, I’d want to have the ability to counter and otherwise deal with magical creatures, and learning to track magical creatures by the effect of their magic on the world...

Basically Vicious Mockery but with the damage changed to “normal attack damage, +1d4 per tier from level 5 on” Should be roughly as balanced as Booming Blade, tbh. Slightly better than Vicious Mockery, but the weapon cantrips already are. Maybe instead of disadvantage it imposes a -1d4...

Which is why you don’t try to make those bits of knowledge part of the game, and instead just use the same skill check regardless, and maybe have some “tracking larger creators is easy, tracking flying creatures is hard. All creatures with proficiency in stealth are treated as one size smaller...

Which is why it doesn’t matter whether or not the Ranger mechanically represents any of that accurately.

I would just get rid of it and not replace it, as such. The 2014 ranger was conceptually spot on whether you took HM or not, but just needed to be mechanically better. Give favored enemy the ability to gain advantage against a single target for a minute as a bonus action, with the ability to...

Yeah I don’t love it. Even the familiar not being able to attack annoys me.

Interesting. I haven’t looked at it, is it specifically for A5e?

FF should definitely be on the Ranger spell list.

Yeah I think rangers riding their companion is completely cromulent and not at all broken. Say, Small, then it can be medium at level 6, and large at level 11ish. But tbh I would like there to be a mount option built in to begin with. (And as I said in another thread a little while ago, I’d...

Oh ffs I just realized I made basically this same thread a long time ago….

Right. So…let’s see, if the beast of the land were medium, and had a pounce, would it be good as a tiger, or is there other stuff it would need?

I’ll wait to vote But my wife likes using 2024 but the primal companion is replaced by an expert sidekick. She also used the revised BM for years and it was good, but she wanted to switch to 2024 and the dm for that campaign offered some class fixes that might make her either switch to pure...

Simple query I’m just curious what solution folks prefer.

It’s simply boring to always only have at-will capabilities with no way to “go all out” and burn some resources or take extra risk in order to get a bigger result. It’s also nearly an axiom of game design that NOVA damage matters and a class with X DPR without nova capacity is weaker than a...

I can see how that would work well. I wonder if a risk die in place of a resource would work, as well. 4 or more probably makes more sense mathematically, maybe even dropping it to 3 for some classes or at a certain level. And yeah I think that’s a great use of Bonus Actions, though I’d say...

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I wonder, what about tying the shoots to do these things in addition to damage to the Weapon Mastery feature? So you can do them with a weapon in which you have mastery, but not when using other weapons? So if you have dagger and short sword, you can trip and deal damage on a successful attack...