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I'm working on a revision to concentration that likely be a minor boost to casters. I would like to also provide a boost to martial characters, and it's okay if it's bigger than the caster boost. One thing I need to make clear is that PCs and NPCs/monsters are the same in my worlds. While I use...

It occurs to me that we aren't all talking about the same thing. Some of us are talking about how simple it is for a new/casual player to play the class without getting confused or forgetting to use class features. Others are talking about how simple it is for a new optimizer in the making to...

I'd say not too complex to build. The access to all spells does nudge it little higher than other classes in that regard. Super simple to play.

You know, an idea that came to me reading this is some sort of conditional damage resistance. So maybe double the bonus that armor provides, and say anything that rolls between the target's unarmed "touch AC" and that newly increased AC does half damage, and anything that hits or exceeds that...

Designing My New Rules of Attunement With the 2024 DMG and its magic item rules right around the corner, I finally managed to finish this set of magic item attunement house rules that has been three years in the making. This is a sequel to Reverse Engineering the Real Rules of Attunement and...

As I said (actually I said class features but same basic thing), technically correct, but not the whole story. All casters have multiple spells. Wizards have the biggest list to choose from at character creation, and after that they generally have the smallest list to choose from for daily...

I consider class complexity to be most heavily influenced by how many subsystems your class includes and how many resources it gives you to track. I do not consider options as being nearly as large of a contributor. Warlock (invocations, boon (2014)), sorcerer (sorcery points, metamagic), druid...

Sure, as long as they have attrition similar to a combat encounter. A social encounter that costs no resources isn't part of that equation regardless of how fun it is or how much it advances the story.

Wow, so far you're the only one else I've seen share that opinion with me! I guess we could form a very small Setting First club, lol.

Really depends on the nature of your setup. If you don't have (or aren't committed to) a particular group of players in mind, couldn't you create the world and game style you want to share and then invite players that are interested? (For the rest of the post I'm not responding to your specific...

Although I'm sticking with 2014 rules, I'm adopting a small number of 2024 rules, including the buff to Protection style...which just showcases how underwhelming Interception style's scaling is. Sure, at lower levels it's fine, but at higher levels it falls way behind. Anyone have any ideas to...

Yeah, that's one of the things that bothered me about combinations--obvious options being orphans. I ended up going beyond just adding "Voice" as an instrument, and instead made Artistic Styles (Dance, Poetry (includes prose and oration), Song, and Spectacle (you actually have to pick what you...

Which is exactly why Advantage isn't the appropriate bonus in all cases. It is used in a lot of places, but not in all cases because sometimes you need a stackable bonus like with Bless. Fair opinion to think Expertise would be too powerful though. I think its a better option given the details...

I didn't like this rule when it first appeared back in Xanathar's, and I don't like it now. I just feel like Advantage is the wrong boost here--it prevents it from being able to stack with other sources of Advantage. In my own skill revision, if you have both a skill and a tool or language...

I could take either Charisma or Intelligence but no others. Also, I think it needs to be one or the other, not varying by individual. I like spellcasting to have clear definition. So I would play in the game of a DM that kept it as Cha or switched it to Int; I might grudgingly play in a game...

Actually I don't. I'm a fan of warriors picking up whatever they find and being just as good with it. 5e's fighting styles are going about as far I can stomach, and I don't allow the damage type focus feats. So my interest is trying to understand how this design was supposed to be useful for...

Given that you can change at least one of your weapon masteries each long rest, why do you even need to pick them? A character is only likely to want to use a weapon they lack mastery in if they happen to find a really cool magic weapon. And if it's not significantly better than what you are...

I house ruled that you can use either Dex or Con for Medium armor. I've liked the results.

Let me clarify what I meant by wilderness "rogue". I did not just mean having wilderness skills. Of course they have always had those. What I primarily meant was being closer in class function/role to a fragile "striker" rogue than to a "sturdy warrior". Secondarily, I include having lots of...

Ranger was orginally--and for quite a long time--squarely in the full warrior category. There was no hint of seeing them as in any sort of thief/rogue combat role. This was true least from 1e through 3.0e D&D. In 3.5e rangers got their hp reduced from the warrior's d10s to d8s (but rogues and...