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The characters might not be invested in "fighting against evil" for its own sake, but they must be invested in something. What do they want, and how might the cult activity be interfering in that? They might not oppose the cult just because it is evil, but they aren't going to allow it to stomp...

While Artificers can fit into any D&D world, it would be annoying to have to buy FR content and fluff in order to get access to them.

It was an issue with spells like Destructive wave, Find Greater Steed and Swift Quiver etc. The Bard used to not only get earlier access to those spells, but also cast them at higher levels if they improved with upcasting.

On the plus side, it also stops full casters like Bards from pilfering signature spells of the half-casters and being able to use them earlier and better than the Rangers and Paladins.

There are seven+ arcane gishes currently available via subclasses. The majority of these fall into the pit of having extra attack, so their playstyle generally revolves around casting a buff or two then just fighting in melee with weapon attacks or the odd cantrip. If I was going to create a...

A D&D 2024 warlock with those invocations and a build/spells to match is considerably better than "merely adequate" in melee. If a character sinking only half of their resources into doing something makes them almost as good as the class dedicated to that thing, there is a problem. If you want...

Another reason for concentration was to "throttle" spellcasting rate to reduce the prevalence of the 5 round working day. By preventing pre-casting of summons, buffs etc for a fight, the spellcasters would have more slots available for the next fight. Throwing up a powerful concentration spell...

More full translations of the core 3 books into other languages, and price on D&D beyond set based on locality.

You can still do this! Just get your blacksmith to dip 7 levels of Wizard.

I think that DPR is often used because it is the easiest comparison to generate, and often the only stat in common that different classes have. There is no real way to compare the investigative and exploration abilities, or control and enemy shutdown capabilities between fighters and wizards...

I think it depends on where you are drawing the "normal human" limit. Many fighters and rogues do not have any abilities that are not possible in real life. When you start going into higher-level games, the characters tend to advance from "mundane" to "action hero", but outside of magic, there...

In most of my games, a drow would be mostly accepted simply because not many people know about them. Unless they're an elf or have had dealings with them before, the general populace would just assume that the drow is just an elf. A tiger looks like a dangerous predator*. How would people pick...

Didn't spot it before, so obligatory mention of Eberron here, where they have shown what a scientific mindset might result in. Note that there is still much about Eberron that its inhabitants don't understand, but that doesn't mean that its not science. I think that if you're introducing a...

Ehhh. Maybe. :unsure: The worst have been raised, but we won't know if the best have been reigned in until we see the changes made to the spells that were making the best the best.

If the barbarians, fighters and rogues at your particular table are the "strongest DPR by far" then chances are they are reasonably optimised. Their DPR performance will probably be going down in D&D 2024, since there are only a few high DPR options that high martials have to be locked into, and...

I'm thinking about the times when clerics had heavy armour and use of bludgeoning weapons when wizards were limited to daggers, staves and darts. We will have to see if clerics get Starry Wisp or another attack cantrip in the new version.

OK. Looks like there is some confusion here, possibly caused by the initial question being phrased slightly misleadingly. The new cleric can choose whether to focus on attacks and martial capabilities, or get the bonus damage to cantrips. Traditionally clerics have always had better at-will...

It would be a disincentive for certain, but provided everything else with the group was good, not a dealbreaker. My concern would be that this sort of restriction is generally symptomatic of a deeper issue with the DM, so I would probably want to know the reason behind why the game is so...

In my personal experience such problem players are very rare as adults, and this seems to be borne out by the people posting on the forums as well. There are maybe four posters who regularly post about how dysfunctional their players/groups are, and most of the other posters seem to regard this...

I see. Do you have any ideas why your experience with your players is so different from most of the rest of us? Are there any common factors in the games where you had players who acted like that that might explain why they're acting so unusually? Were they taken aside and asked to tone down...