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To be bluntly honest, yes, Paladins have had a close relationship to Clerics, so having them both be casters is a piece of mechanical symmetry that I like. It's why they also share Channel Divinity, it strengthens their common bond as wielders of divine magic. And I don't agree that this is a...

Without actually throwing them into a skirmish, some ideas: Having them encounter refugees moving out of border areas. Merchants increasing prices of weapons and healing potions as they are getting bought up by stockpilers Running into mercenary companies marching towards the conflict zones...

So are you advocating removing all spellcasting from the Paladin to tack on some smite point system? I've gone from "juice probably not worth the squeeze" to "hard pass".

I highly dislike using Constitution as a casting stat. Tried it playing the Battlemind in 4e and I've come to the conclusion that Constitution is a defensive stat and shouldn't be used for attacking or spellcasting. Player Characters are already heavily motivated to have a decent Constitution...

Conceivably for like a Dark Sun campaign, but not in general. If this is mainly about wanting to stop the process of waiting to heal a PC until they get dropped, then may I suggest instead BG3 house rule of losing one's action the turn after being revived?

I have a few anime through ... means, but generally if it's not on a streaming service I follow, I don't have access. I don't watch enough to warrant a Crunchyroll subscription (do they have a free account option?), so mainly stuff that's on Netflix/Amazon Prime, but I've been queueing up a...

Perhaps a race of sentient, shapeshifting constructs that can disguise themselves among us?

According to Treantmonk and Colby of D4 Deep Dive, who do a general discussion of the new PHB in videos on each of the other's channel, the floor has been raised, but the ceiling lowered ... slightly. They come at it from an optimizer's perspective and some of the main ways to get high burst...

YMMV, but tbh, taking them off of Concentration and triggering on a hit so the slot is never wasted counts as a "massive buff". I cannot recall ever seeing a single smite spell cast by a Paladin, and the general consensus in my group after seeing that UA was "Okay, I can see myself actually...

It's hard, and I get it. My particular challenge is that I worry that even trying to engage in discussion is just asking to get sucked into a culture war debate. I would actually discuss the flaws in Star Trek Discovery or The Last Jedi or The Acolyte or the recent Doctor Who if I weren't...

That's around. There's a monster in Spelljammer that has a brain extraction attack, if it takes a PC to 0 hp with it, that PC dies and their brain gets extracted. No save. Party got unlucky and I landed it on the Rogue. While running Light Of Xaryxis.

Yeah, I always use average damage, double it on a crit. The only exception might be spells or breath weapons. As a DM, I too want the joy of rolling a fistful of d6s

To be honest, if I start running games in person soon, I'll definitely be using a screen. My laptop is... unreliable and I can't afford to replace it, so I'll have to go to old school pencil and paper

Don't spoil the ending!

Yeah, I'll use a DM screen, but all my combat rolls are in the open. I can't use portrait screens, too tall for me, has to be landscape.

I don't doubt, given the book is done and off to printers that WotC would love to let us get the book earlier, this is a logistical problem. 3K books for GenCon is a drop in the ocean to how many they're printing and selling everywhere else. Also, man I miss Gen Con.

So, for the brewers, and as a general topic ... how do you scale a game when the players are tiny animals? Do you just scale up the world so a mouse is considered medium or have the PCs be tiny?

Alt. I was waffling back and forth over which to get, but once I thought I couldn't get the alt, I was disappointed, lol, so that told me what I really wanted.

Almost certainly. And they changed my order to the alt cover without any problems, so thanks again for the tip, or I'd have left it.

While turning into animalfolk upon arriving in Bloomburrow is kinda a way for WOTC to have their cake and eat it, I do love that we got Otter Ral, and it does tickle me with the idea of a multiversal campaign passing through Bloomburrow so all the PCs have to discover their fursonas. It's a bit...