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I like that they said they're clarifying what you need to qualify for crafting a magic item. Name, the Arcana skill and the appropriate Artisan Tool proficiency and possibly a relevant spell. I just hope there's a clause for collaborative item creation where multiple people can collectively...

I don't believe so. Just like True Strike isn't a spell attack, but a spell that lets you make a weapon attack, Summon Celestial is not a spell that deals Radiant damage but a spell that summons a creature. What the creature does after that is its own business.

The Light Crossbow is 1d8 while Shortbows and Hand Crossbows are 1d6, it's true. But the former has a Slow mastery while the latter two have a Vex mastery, and I suspect Rogues will value Vex highly enough that it's worth dropping a die size. Then comparing the Shortbow and Hand Crossbow, the...

A single class Rogue doesn't have proficiency with a Pistol. They get Martial weapons with the Finesse or Light property, and Pistols have neither. Hand Crossbows do, but a Hand Crossbow has little to recommend it over a Shortbow. The Martial Weapon Training feat is keyed to Str or Dex, which...

High Elf also works, now that they can freely assign their species Wizard cantrip. The thing with the new version of True Strike is that unlike previous weapon cantrips, it works best when your caster stat is prioritized. There are some interesting interactions, though, and here are some of the...

There's been a change from 2014 5e. If you look in the Spells chapter under Casting Without Slots on p235, now anyone can ritually cast a spell with the Ritual tag if they have it prepared. It's a universal trait of Ritual spells and not something you need a specific class feature to enable...

I spent today mocking up an Int primary Arcane Trickster using True Strike to attack. Overall it seemed a pretty even trade compared to the standard Dex build. Slightly better damage, slightly worse AC. Slightly better spell DC, slightly worse Cunning Strike DC. The big difference is that if...

A bespectacled researcher delves into tomes of arcane knowledge and forbidden lore. They're working to uncover the hidden secrets of the cosmos, secrets that will let them wield magical power of great potency. Some would say their skills are unnatural, and that their magics call up things best...

One change I caught is that they said the only way your Bastion can fall is if you draw Ruin from the Deck of Many Things. Which sounds like the Bastion Attack event is gone, which would also mean the Facilities that were entirely about interacting with that one event result will have new...

Not exactly. That's one of the PHB class examples, all of which turn up again in other art pieces. The white dragonborn is the Zealot Barbarian (p57), the male human charming the wagon driver is the Dance Bard (p64), and the purple haired gnome or halfling with the slippery fingers is the Rogue...

It's not an exploit if it's an intended change.

In other words, nothing new for a DM with plenty of experience who's used to keeping a notebook, but something helpful to newer or more disorganized DMs. Pre-made note templates to help organize the information and remind the DM what some important things to track are. That's a useful labor...

If you think about it, between this and their "The default D&D setting is the multiverse" tagline, a pattern emerges. It seems to me they're aiming to square the circle and say, "We're giving you a toolbox full of signature D&D elements, and you can use them with an official setting or a third...

That was true of 2014-5e because most of the higher level martial class features were flat out bad, and so it was far better to multiclass out and get the core kit of two classes than keep going in one. I don't know if that's still true in Revised 5e. They've clearly made an attempt at fixing...

And I'm okay with that. Most really oddball 5e character build ideas fall into the "possible at a high cost in feats or multiclassing" column rather than being outright impossible. About the only thing you can't do is combine high level features from multiple classes, just because you cap out at...

Not without using pre-Revision material. Magic Initiate and the Bard features are limited to Cleric, Druid, or Wizard. Fey-Touched and Shadow-Touched are school specific, and abjuration isn't one of those schools. And this is by design. It's an intentional balance feature. You can still do it...

It's variable, depending on the DM's encounter design tastes. If your DM throws minion mobs and enemy squads at the PCs, a Fiend Warlock will have lots of chances to trigger their extra temp HP. If the DM leans more towards fewer higher CR enemies, your solo mini-bosses and small teams of heavy...

If we're running the numbers and not going by flavor, GFB falls well behind multiple attacks. The only way to get it to roughly parity is to run it as a Celestial Warlock, because you can stack on their Radiant Soul feature that adds their Cha mod to the attack a third time. Or if you're willing...

I did see a build proposed around that, though it was back in the playtest when you could grab AoA with Magic Initiate. Also when AoA hadn't be updated and you couldn't refresh the temp HP. But I suppose it still holds together with just a one level dip in Warlock. Cast AoA with your highest...

Let's not go overboard. Using AoA and some additional temp HP sources is good for surviving in melee with you otherwise have middling AC and HP. Creating an entire multiclass build around a single spell combo is probably a bit much. It's a very narrow optimization that's entirely dependent on...