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Agreed. IMO, the monk's toolkit should make them pay ki for doing a) spectacular moves and b) things outside their "core playstyle." So if you want to stand there and tank, you can do it, but you're burning ki and you can't keep it up for long. If you want to dart in, hit hard, and zip away, you...

How do they work in Elden Ring?

One thing that would improve the system a lot would be to rethink the idea behind the schools, more along the lines of M:tG's color pie. A color in Magic is not defined by a single "function" -- each color can do many different things, and most things can be done by more than one color. At the...

The schools of magic should have been scrapped several editions ago. They have never done a good job of covering the full scope of D&D spells. WotC can keep them as the names of the wizard subclasses if that's what it takes to appease Tradition, but I wish they would quit trying to shoehorn...

Here's my cut at stealth and detection rules: General rules: Creatures within 300 feet see you if you are in bright or dim light, unless something completely blocks their line of sight to you. Creatures within 300 feet hear you when you move or do something noisy, unless something blocks or...

I think Jeremy glossed over an enormous amount of detail in that interview. There is no possible way their spreadsheet is as simple as you're making it out. Imagine a system which treated the paralyzing claw of a ghoul (save DC 10, an easy save for most PCs) as equivalent to the paralyzing...

Somebody did the math on that and found it was still much too strong at high levels. I haven't checked those calculations, but they fit with my experience playing a warlock under this house rule from levels 11-15. Two short rests per day was plenty -- I had no trouble at all keeping up with the...

Take out #3 and you have the house rules my group has been using for a couple years now. (We limit short rests to 2/day. Otherwise the short-rest classes would go from underpowered to grotesquely OP.) I do find it fascinating that Wizards is so reluctant to go this route. They are clearly...

Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2023 is the most peculiar blend of wise sage and douchebag.

How are you defining "reprint?" Does it have to have the same mechanics, or the same concept, or just the same name? If they take an existing subclass and make some balance tweaks, and adjust it to fit with changes in the base class/core rules, is that a reprint? I don't think we're likely to...

I very much like the idea of druids choosing one wild shape, or a few of them, rather than having the entire universe of shapes available at all times. Then put a list of beast statblocks in the PHB, all of them with stats that scale by level. Perhaps the default druid chooses a single wild...

Given that most of the debt is apparently owed to other companies he owns, I'm entirely convinced it's a scheme to hide assets. Presumably his thinking is that he can put in a bunch of claims on behalf of his other businesses, and then WotC (and his lawyers in the WotC suit) have to fight for a...

IANAL, but I'm fairly sure it doesn't work like that. If that $384K was spent on legit business expenses, well, that's the risk you take when you extend credit to a small business. But if it was spent to install a new swimming pool at LaNasa's house, the shield of the LLC gets a lot less solid...

That is not consistent with the approach Crawford described. A change has to score significantly better than the original to be incorporated. It is the change that has to prove itself; if it doesn't, the original prevails. That's why they're going back to the old subclass progression. If they...

I had a player with an Undying warlock in a strongly undead-themed campaign. Among the Dead was often helpful, but far from OP; even in that campaign, it did not compensate for the general suckitude of the Undying patron. It's not like you're reducing the amount of incoming fire, you're just...

Strahd certainly can overcome it. He can use Legendary Resistance to auto-succeed on the save, and once he does, he's immune for 24 hours. Of course, that means he's weakening his defenses against spells, while facing a known spellcaster. If he doesn't think that's a good tradeoff... that's his...

You are correct. The text of the ability is quite clear. You, personally, must target the undead, personally, with an attack or spell before it can ignore AtD. (The fact that the language suggests "choosing another target" strongly implies that it is meant to be used in combat.) The wording of...

I... don't feel like I need to? Why would I "respond" to someone not liking the same things I do? I shrug and move on to another topic, and make a mental note that socializing with this friend should mostly happen in a non-gaming context.

Two of the power sources contain one full caster, plus a half caster with a strong thematic tie to the full caster. "Divine" might as well be "cleric" and "primal" might as well be "druid." The third power source has four full casters crammed into it*. Bard, sorcerer, warlock, and wizard all...

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you specifically were contemplating this -- that was more of a generic/rhetorical "you."