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That's why I think the first Chain Pact familiar I want to try is the Skeleton. It has so many unique qualities, among them a ranged attack.

Not amazing, but not entirely out of the picture. It's a non-Cha feat, so you're either delaying Cha progression or taking it late. It's a Bonus Action attack, and a Warlock can already get that with Investment of the Chain Master. Not to mention the competition with any Bonus Action buff...

You are, I fear, absolutely correct. I hadn't fully gamed out the interaction of durations and initiative orders. The Warlock can never personally benefit by attacking a Paralyzed foe, outside of Readied Action gimmicks, and even allies only get it if their turn lands between the Warlock and the...

Revised 5e Bladelocks are finicky things. I keep seeing people trying to design them like a standard martial, and that just doesn't work. Even multiclass dips are only a partial solution. The opinion I'm coming around to is that if you want standard martial tools like Weapon Masteries and a...

Dryads are fey and go in a fey book. Inevitables were de-facto celestials, and have lost their seat back to the modrons in 5e anyway. And I don't think you can make an entire book on warforged or myconids, especially when warforged are still pretty Eberron specific. That last point goes for...

I winnowed it down via a process of elimination. What creature types have an actual society? That's stuff like construct and plant out. What creature types might be good fodder for character backgrounds and adventure hooks? Goodbye beasts. What creature types haven't already been repeatedly...

Don't have to be in the office to set an already completed video to release. But yeah, both are possible

That's also a useful prediction. Let's see. General release for the Revised MM is Feb 18th, two week early access is Feb 4th, and five weeks before that is Dec 31st. So both Dec 31st and Jan 7th are on the "high possibility" list.

The first preview video for the Revised DMG was exactly two weeks after the general release date for the Revised PHB. And two weeks does feel like a deliberately chosen length of time to not step on the toes of the previous release and let people's attention be freed up. So by that measure, the...

Yes, balance is wacky at those early levels. And that's okay, because they go by quickly, if the campaign doesn't skip them entirely. The strongest option for a low level Warlock is Chain Pact with an Imp or Sphinx and just letting it attack for you.

Novelty factor. People are busy trying to come up with novel new things, not the same Warlock builds they've been seeing for 10 years with a couple tweaks. One of my shortlist "Characters I want to play" is a GOO Warlock illusionist, and I've got it sketched in as using a standard EB package...

Your math is off on the True Strikes. True Strike adds your Cha modifier to the weapon attack, and Agonizing Blast adds it a second time, and Radiant Soul adds it a third time. So at 5th level it's 1d10 + 1d6 + 8, and at 6th level it goes up to 1d10 + 1d6 + 12.

All true, but now that we know what the crafting rules are I rather expect people will be designing characters with them in mind. Yes, a true omnicrafter that goes all-in with the Artisan background will be rare. But someone with the Skilled Origin feat that was already planning to have Arcana...

I'd call that a subset of the former, but yes. You see a lot of discussion of that sort online, going back to the 3e Character Optimization board. Though I'm never sure how much of it is theorycraft for the sake of theorycraft and how much of it is ever intended for actual play. Honestly, I...

This formulation of Rule Zero is made with the assumption that everyone at the table is at least a moderately mature and reasonable person who will respect the time and enjoyment of the other people at the table. Which is both the attitude that should be encouraged, and the only real tact you...

I find that reviews are nearly useless if I try to skip to the tl;dr final score or "good/bad" stamp. I have to read the full review, get a sense for what the reviewer's taste are and how they compare to mine, and pick out the specific good or bad points cited and measure how important those are...

I pretty much stop reading any thread that goes past 10 pages, because that's how long it takes to get derailed into the same interminable arguments with the same small handful of people. People who, as you say, hate 5e and only stick around to loudly remind everyone else of that fact in Every...

That's certainly a traditional school of thought. I wouldn't say it's one that's widely held, anymore. Take Harry Potter, for example. Hogwarts is dripping with magic, from every student to the paintings on the wall, but I challenge you to tell anyone who grew up on the Potter books that...

If we're spitballing what world evolves out of the D&D rules... one idea I've had cross my mind is that if PC rules are for PCs and PCs are exceptional, what if the three item attunement cap isn't universal? Maybe most NPCs with weaker magical auras can only attune to one item at a time. Heck...

The Dying Earth especially, yes, but it was a theme through a lot of early to mid 20th century genre fiction. Where do they get their magic armor and swords in The Hobbit? They loot a bunch of ancient elvish gear. Where does the dank magic crawl out from in Conan stories? Ancient tombs and ruins...