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Mearls is a Defier confirmed. Now we just have to figure out the factions of the rest of the staff...

Alternatively we're going to another Magic: the Gathering setting and the warlock patron is Jace Beleren. I can see it now, summoning the giant gaping mouth of Jace to chomp on my foes.

I'm happy to see Aberration based sorcerer but mechanically I find both of them to be kinda boring. Almost all the features are rehashes of effects we've already seen before elsewhere. The only thing that is somewhat interesting is bringing up the possibility of bonus sorcerer spells known...

I couldn't make it past the first episode of Mearl's campaign (it was clear the players hadn't played together before and were struggling with finding a rhythm, lots of talking over each other, etc) so I'm not sure how he explained it exactly. I'd kinda just assumed that the story would be...

Exactly. And the Greek Gods are very powerful but they also have a tendency to behave irrationally much like a mortal would.

I'm curious, what makes you say this? The deities of the Vale always struck me as closer to being real characters than the faceless representations that other settings have. In the Dawn War they actually struggle at first to put aside their differences and actually work together to fight the...

Huh, for some reason I thought that Banishment didn't allow upcasting. Still, being able to save on higher level slots is useful as I find that typically upcast spells are a tad weaker than spells that are natively at that level. For example at 5th level you get Wall of Force which is a...

Personally I think the wizard edges out the sorcerer. But this is due to personal preference of valuing versatility, and utility so highly in my spell casters. A wizard can prepare more spells than a sorcerer knows meaning they always have access to more options! With the wizard you are free to...

If you're willing to venture out into third party territory there are plenty of options, but I'll just bring up the ones I have experience with. Primeval Thule is a pulpy sword and sandals setting heavily inspired by Conan the Barbarian stories and the Cthulu Mythos. Horrible monsters await in...

I'd like to see classes have more decision points for features. As right now once you've picked your subclass there isn't a lot of choice upon level up. It would be interesting if upon leveling you had a choice between a handful of features to take to differentiate builds within a class further...

I have the opposite problem. I play a paladin and my steed has the personality of "proud, dumb warrior guy" so he constantly wants to get into battles and "gloriously defeat the enemies of Erathis." Most of the time while mounted I take direct control but sometimes I dismount and he gets to act...

I personally like how the rogue fights differently than the rest of the martials both from a fluff and crunch stand point. Fluff wise extra attack represents a high degree of weapon training and skill at arms. But to me the rogue is not very soldier like to warrant that degree of weapon mastery...

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Our table likes to have fun with customizing the mounts that paladins get through find steed. I currently play a paladin of Erathis that comes from a noble family. His family's crest is a stag. So his mount is a white stag with horns in the shape of connected gears. In another game I run there...

Web is a contender for my all time favourite spell. On my wizard even when I had access to higher level spell slots I always kept web handy. I eventually took hypnotic pattern but I found myself still casting web because difficult terrain is very handy in choke points and I just found that...

I currently play a devotion paladin of Erathis and most of my magic is themed around gears that resemble the holy symbol of Erathis. Shield of faith, bless, aura of vitality all create spectral gears that hover around the target/fill the area of the aura. My favourite however was find steed. The...

As a point of comparison the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica gives us the Horncaller which pretty much only casts conjure animals and then uses it's turn to command 1 of them to attack (along with 2 weak melee staff strikes, but generally the spell caster will want to hang back). It comes in it...

I think the most fair thing would be just to add proficiency with 1 skill and 1 tool. I play a basic human in a campaign and it's not bad. Using +1 to all stats I was able to give myself two +3 modifiers without any negative modifiers at level 1 making for a very well rounded character. The only...

I like 5e in general because to me it hits the Goldilocks sweetspot of complexity. Back in high school when we tried to play 3.5 based solely using the SRD and trying to identify which options were traps out of the plethora of content. On the other end of the spectrum we tried playing some OSR...