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  1. CM

    D&D 5E (2014) Help me come up with a property for a magic flail

    A couple more: Mid-levels: Create a dust devil when swung as a bonus action (I believe this spell is in the Elemental Evil Player's Companion High levels: Function as a dancing weapon
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    New D&D Survey: What Do you Want From Older Editions?

    I suspect that a good array of new spells would go a long ways to making the eldritch knight feel more like the 4e bladesinger and/or swordmage. Currently the great majority of spells are more aligned towards a full caster.
  3. CM

    New D&D Survey: What Do you Want From Older Editions?

    http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?429638-Taking-a-stab-at-the-nonmagical-bard&p=6558638#post6558638
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    New D&D Survey: What Do you Want From Older Editions?

    If you think "warlord" is synonymous with martial healing, then i'm sorry, but you don't know warlords at all. It's so much more than that. Note that nowhere in my post did I even mention healing. By the way, "because it might not fit every campaign" is about the weakest argument around to not...
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    New D&D Survey: What Do you Want From Older Editions?

    I'd hazard a guess that the great majority of players interested in a warlord class specifically do not want a magic-using class. 5e has plenty of room for a "face" oriented warrior class that is moderately competent in hand-to-hand combat but excels at supporting his allies and the social...
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    New D&D Survey: What Do you Want From Older Editions?

    I mentioned warlords and avengers in the text field.
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    New D&D Survey: What Do you Want From Older Editions?

    There was positive feedback for Dragon+?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Help me come up with a property for a magic flail

    Winds around the flail spontaneously rise and flames gutter when the forces of chaos draw near. Can create an effect equivalent to Animal Messenger or Sending (although the message is carried on the wind, instead) Something that amplifies the wielder's voice (similar to 4e ritual Battlefield...
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    D&D 5E (2014) "My X is underpowered compared to Y." So?

    "Somebody's playstyle is different from my own! What's up with that?"
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    Mike Mearls on D&D Psionics: Should Psionic Flavor Be Altered?

    Adapt 2e psionics to 5e. That was the most flavorful version, imo, even if its balance was questionable. Pseudoscience and all.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Items found during the game: How do you handle the "oh look, this random dungeon just happens to have that sword my character wanted."

    Just because the player knows an item exists and wants it doesn't mean the character does. If the DM works with the players to provide items that support their characters, it can simply be seen as fate or luck.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Where do you get silver powder?

    Usually in the magic baking aisle.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Fighter Weapon Choice

    It's reasons like this that I generally just let the players describe what their weapons look like, within reason. If someone wants the stats of a rapier but visualizes it as a short sword, or a light pick, who really cares?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Help With My Dark Sun One-shot

    If it's any help, here's the list of custom 2e-style 4e-compatible wild talents I use in my 4e Dark Sun game. No, they're not balanced, nor are they supposed to be. :cool: 4e DS Wild Talents
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    D&D 5E (2014) Need ideas for a Troll race for PC's

    Here's my take on weaker troll regeneration for a PC: Trolls gain a number of extra racial hit dice equal to their proficiency bonus (d10s). When injured, a troll can roll one or more of their racial hit dice and add their Constitution bonus once for each hit die rolled. They do not...
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    D&D 5E (2014) The Contagion Spell

    I might change the disadvantage for Slimy Doom from Con saves to Strength saves, so it's not doubly difficult to save out of; then it's not much different from Hold Monster. Having to get into melee with the target and then successfully hit it is a significant drawback, too.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why such little content (books) for Dnd 5e?

    1. What's to stop you from using the 1e, 2e, 3e, or 4e plane information wholesale in 5e? It's 90% fluff and little or no conversion is necessary. 2. They're working on that. 3. There's some suggestion they're working on that too.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Elemental Evil companion spells underwhelming?

    I for one am perfectly OK with adding spells that are situationally useful and not must-haves. For me, about the time Complete Arcane came out is when the wheels fell off 3e.
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    [UPDATED] WotC Gives You Some Official 5E Modern Armor!

    You may very well be correct, but the numbers were drawn from the in-game statistics for weapons and armor in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas' game engine, so we can foist the blame on Bethesda for that. :)
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    [UPDATED] WotC Gives You Some Official 5E Modern Armor!

    For those who want a bit more simulation when it comes to firearms vs. armor, I used the following system for my 4e Fallout game and will probably do something similar if I run a 5e modern game: Each weapon has an Armor Penetration (AP) value (from 0 to 4) and each armor has an Armor Value (AV...
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