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99% of statistics are made up. Like that one. :-) The majority of medium armor wearers are already focused on DEX already too for various reasons. Clerics, however, need WIS and CON more than STR. If barbarians and rangers want to focus on STR without DEX they do have the option to take...

Heavy armor would be expensive in terms of STR. 15 STR costs more than 14 DEX. Light armor or no armor costs even more in terms of DEX for the AC. That doesn't mean much for a character who already focuses on STR or DEX, but for those who don't medium armor is on the low side of stat...

I also did not like the templates. There are benefits to a template like that, but they lose the identity and flavor of the ability as they become that abstract. IMO

You might buy it as a scroll and use it as a 13th thief. 1st level spell scrolls are on the equipment. That's the only option off the top of my head.

I still wouldn't call that hidden. Benefiting from one source of thp has been a thing for a long time. I'd also argue that not needing to give the druid thp with Inspiring Leader opens up room to give the druid's familiar thp instead. There's a limit of 6 targets. Life-Giving Force from...

Except they were using wild shape as a sack of hit point and getting knocked out of wild shape while triggering the "when at 0 hit point" triggers and events. Not getting knocked out of wild shape makes using wild shape more effective. Moon druids have 3 times the thp as other druids from...

To what end? The 2014 druid was a mess of "how many hit points can I turn into?" instead of focusing on the utility wild shape can bring. Now all those hit points that weren't really the point of the ability are back to no longer being a consideration. The temporary hit points are just a...

I wanted to select ranger but it's mysteriously not on the list. I don't like the way Hunter's Mark is incorporated but I do think it's a significant improvement over the 2014 version.

I didn't play those modules so I cannot really comment on them, and still don't remember the stories in the books. I was never really big on DragonLance. I do remember Raistlin and Caramon being competent although Fizban had a similar role in rescuing characters. In LotR it's the eagles...

Bards for caster levels too. 2e XP leveling rates were kind of wild. No, I definitely meant LoTR et al. I don't remember the DragonLance novels well enough to recall similar issues. Do you have examples? There is no try. There is do or do not. Bards are do-sexual. Pffft.... rangers...

I decided to list the configurations that the PHB claims to be a balanced party to see if that triggered any epiphanies. Then I realized how many permutations that becomes. All y'all can think up interesting combinations of this basic theme without me pointing them all out. :) I will point...

I'm not sure where you're going with that. A reaction can take place on any turn but takes place in response to criteria. For a reaction to take place from the ranger on the ranger's turn someone else almost invariably needs to predicate that reaction somehow. Most reactions take place on...

We're getting off topic here, but those examples don't express the extent of what I am talking about. It's not the friends they keep -- it's the strangers they've never met until they show up and save them.

There were no humans in your classic party? 🤔 Dual-classing was a pain.

It's Middle Earth, where the legendary adventurers are heroically rescued by NPC's at almost every turn. ;-)

We're no longer talking about a 3rd level character in either scenario. OT: No, I don't think horde breaker is "too good".

Yeah, but that's a setting specific style of group highly customized by the DM. Imagine the Fellowship if a bard and warlock tried to join... ...and you have my bow ...and my axe ...and my insults, no? wait and my lute.... no? hmm, and my adultery? ...AND my desire to make deals for personal...

Soooo many druids now feel lost... :-D

Not really. I'd use a valor bard to replace the cleric as armored front line support. The valor bard doesn't have the fighter weapon masteries, armor training, and fighting styles; and we're already into the subclass before looking at fighter subclasses. But @Lanefan was going by the quote...