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The "Stormwind Fallacy" essentially states that roleplaying and optimisation are not mutually exclusive. As in a highly optimised character can still be roleplayed well by the player. I think the argument in this thread is that you can still enjoy playing a mechanically awkward or weak...

The scorching ray damage is pretty irrelevant when compared to the CME damage. If you're using it against a red dragon, just switch CME to cold damage. No, not "no resistances". Unless the opponents are resistant to all elemental damage, CME can be used to full effect. Or more, if they have...

The spell has a 10 minute duration. Losing your first round in combat is definitely not going to be required in every fight. While combining with upcast scorching ray is an extreme demonstration of the issue, I think that the most problematic part is when used by a full caster making weapon...

Many creatives don't like putting their work out in an easily copied format, because it encourages casual sharing of them. It doesn't stop bootleg and pirate copies from being made, but it does mean that honest users are more likely to pay for the product. An official PDF may be casually shared...

She appears to be an elf or half elf, so the hovering crystal could just be a cantrip. What she is wearing could just be travelling clothes: other than a couple of pieces of decorative metal on the gloves and what might just be backpack straps, she doesn't appear to be wearing armour. Could be...

The base classes have been modified: it is only the subclasses that will be pre-2024.

I like it. - I'm particularly in favour of giving scimitars a reason to be wielded along with a shield or with the use of the other hand, which were both more common styles than using two scimitars at once.

I suppose ideally, you would want to perform a calculation that includes the feats and mastery that also supports the style. GWF style might not match up well with the other styles in power, but it is almost always going to be combined with a mastery (Graze for the Greatsword is probably the...

Would be nice if it was added to D&D Beyond though. ;-)

Ah. Definitely a mistake by the people who made it, but had a good outcome for the bystanders. I can't help but think that the OGL crisis was similar: WotC made a mistake that cost them a lot of trust and some custom, but it is one of the better things to happen to the TTRPG community overall...

They didn't. But to torture your analogy further, they made it like a tractor bearing: simple and robust. You can use it in an aircraft engine, but you should probably get an aircraft mechanic to tweak it for that role, otherwise it will underperform.

No matter how tight the maths are, they can't compensate for the variations in the people who play the game. The reason that 5e CR seems to low-ball the encounter difficulties is because it is there as a tool for beginner DMs running encounters for new players with unoptimised characters and...

Initiative is only rolled when an attack or other action that starts the conflict is declared. The arrow is drawn back and loosed, the first words of the fireball spell are chanted, the sword clears the sheath and is swung etc. Now, it is unlikely, but possible that the character of the player...

I take it that you want to be a Beast Mastery Ranger who rides their companion? Rather than just having a horse, or summoning a steed? In D&D 2024, humans can be Small size. So you could ride your normal companion. Ask your DM to adjust the statblock of the Beast of the Land to make it Large...

"The Emperor protects" " . . . an' that's cuttin' me own froat." "Innit." "Consider that." "Wouldn't you say?" "No skin off my nose either way."

Decide the niche you want the spell to fulfil. If it is for dedicated gishes to boost their damage, scale it at +1d8/2 levels upcast. If it is to give spellcasters more melee/close up damage, keep existing scaling, but it only activates 1/round.

I very much get the impression that Advanced 5e, and almost all of the "D&D-like" games created at the OGL point are not trying to jockey for D&D's market position. From the advertising I've seen, they are not trying very hard to bring new people into the TTRPG hobby, but rather marketing to...

Ah. Yes - This would cause definite problems. Assuming a ~4 hour evening session, there is no way you can fit a balanced adventuring day in there. Unless your group are very efficient in decision-making and rolling during combat, you're not going to get nearly enough fights in , let alone...

Our AL club has a sign-up system where people who want to DM state the module they will be running and when, and this gets posted up on an event organisation site, and people who want to play sign up for those sessions. Some members DM a lot, but there aren't any designated DMs. DM burnout is...

Shields: Bonus action sounds good. Until D&D differentiates between different shield types, requiring a full action just to open your hand and drop something you were holding seems wrong. I'd be very tempted to give shields a Mastery property as well. Exhaustion: Agreed. DCs set by the stats of...