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Yes, as well as weapon proficiency and access to the Mastery trait. D&D is not a game that rewards half measures. Why get up into melee and make a single weapon attack when you can stand back at a safe distance and spam empowered Eldritch Blasts? Blade Pact only keeps up with EB spam if you're...

Yes, that's what I was trying to say, sorry for being unclear. Invocations like Otherworldly Leap will stay lowered, but others like Agonizing Blast might be raised to 2nd level to make it clear you're encouraged to start with a Pact invocation.

That's one of the few specific non-spell changes from UA7. But I did sort of notice a pattern to some of the invocation talk. The 2014 Warlock didn't get invocations at 1st level, and the Revised Warlock will. But they talked about raising the required level for some invocations, to prevent...

I saw one of the community reps say on the OneD&D reddit that it's coming later in the week, not today.

I think the reason there's less discussion on the last couple videos is that the classes seem mostly the same as the last UA playtest version. That makes the video very informative to people who haven't been following along, but old news to us high engagement fanatics. Unless there's something...

Thor: Love and Thunder was excessive and slightly tasteless in multiple ways. I wouldn't classify it as a good model to emulate, or an example of the general rule.

The Celestial Warlock is almost definitely an Aasimar. Those pupilless golden eyes seem to be a signature trait. The fey warlock might be a drow? It's not clear what the style guide for them is going to be, exactly.

Not, they didn't go into the nitty gritty at all. Were there balance adjustments to the Blade Pact tree? Were there additional follow up invocations to Tome Pact added? Are the Archfey enhancements to Misty Step all the same? Did Celestial's Radiant Soul get adjusted to benefit Blade Pact...

A fair point. I let myself get sucked in when I shouldn't have. Consider the tangent dropped, at least on my part.

I'm not a Sith. I don't deal in absolutes. All those things are reduced in scale and frequency. Also I'll bet you a dollar that Bane and Bless are getting reworks in Revised 5e. They've already said that the Protection fighting style is. You can build a team buff focused Battle Master or Bard...

Not to speak too much for Fitz, but he did say that sex sells in moderation. It's like how the MCU movies squeeze in one lingering shot of the male lead shirtless and showing off for the camera. It's always there, but it's one shot that doesn't linger too long and is never more than just...

Oh dear, you're going to make me pull my dusty 4e books off the shelf, aren't you. Alright then. Looking down the 1st level at-will abilities, what have we got? Give an ally an off-turn basic melee attack, that's very 4e and only works because basic attacks are standardized. Give an ally a...

Yes, but maybe not for the cause and effect you're implying. It's not "People who didn't play 4e missed their chance to see the Warlord in action and don't know how awesome it is." It's more "People who tried 4e and decided it wasn't a game they wanted to play very likely aren't interested in...

Hardly a new thing. That goes back to 3rd edition, though I think it's been a little inconsistent as the art budget fluctuates.

The context may be that Tool Proficiencies work differently now. There were a few spots in the UA packets that referenced making Slight of Hand checks that previously might have cited Thieves' Tools. If Tool Proficiencies now enhance skill checks instead of replacing them, not having Expertise...

That could be a fallback option. Say, the Rogue is trying to snipe a foe who isn't engaged with an ally, and they have Advantage from Vex for hitting them last turn, but their first attack still misses. Making a second attack with their Bonus Action would be low reward because it couldn't Sneak...

No one really knows. We don't have the aasimar style guide yet, and "glowing eyes" might be a Soulknife thing not an aasimar thing. If they've got metallic green skin and wings? Definitely an aasimar. But anything else? Hard to say, still.

The Soulknife tactical matrix is interesting. They can't use Steady Aim and the Psychic Blades' innate off-hand attack on the same turn, because they're both Bonus Actions. And two attacks is better than one attack with Advantage, because you can hit twice. Except that sometimes the Rogue will...

Limited resource abilities get graded on a different scale than at-will ones.

I'd say less to protect Wizards and more to protect martial classes. Just theorycrafting scenarios, there were a lot of ways to make it hard to retrieve a weapon easily. Disarm and then have an ally with a Push trait weapon knock them back. Disarm and then yoink it with Mage Hand, if you're an...