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Draconic Sorcery subclass: Draconic Resilience: A strict improvement over the original, other than not getting it until level 3. Should generally give an extra +1 AC at level 4, and +2 at level 8, assuming you use those ASIs to improve Cha to 18 and 20 at those levels. Elemental Affinity: The...

It occurred to me that you can use Empowered Spell metamagic on the exploding dice of Sorcerous Burst, because each explosion die is a new damage die rolled. Since you should always be able to reroll more damage dice than the base cantrip provides (eg: 5 from Cha even at the max 4d6 at level...

I kinda liked that they framed it as if the primary casting stat for primal effects could be Strength (vs mostly Int/Cha for arcane and mostly Wis for divine). They probably won't change druid, because backwards compatibility, but maybe it can be touched on in ranger?

It was 1/day at 9th, 2/day at 13th, and 3/day at 17th. Now it's 1/day at 9th, and 5/day at 17th, assuming you're not using your Second Wind otherwise (which is likely, given higher hit points and the low scaling on Second Wind). The long stretch of only 1 use per day is a bit of a concern, but...

This might be a little better than it looks. It does not give a limit to the number of rerolls per die, just to the total number of reroll dice, which means your typical starting 16 Cha sorcerer could theoretically get a 6+6+6+1d6 (~21.5) total at first level. Here's some Anydice code I put...

Cleave's second target has to be within your reach, and within 5' of the original target. So a reach weapon with Cleave (such as the halberd) could hit a second target that's "behind" the first target. Flex only increases the damage die size, so only increases average damage by 1. However it...

On page 361 of the Adventurer's Guide, the Garrison option for strongholds says that you get a garrison half the size of the number of staff for the stronghold, and that for every 30 soldiers in the garrison, you get 1 veteran. On page 371, the Wilverley Castle example stronghold has a staff of...

Why would this be different to Magic Initiate (can use magic), or Martial Adept (can use Battlemaster maneuvers), or Metamagic Adept (can use sorcerer's metamagic)? Level Up also has a feat for combat maneuvers.

My own guesstimate is $85M domestic and $95M international, for about $180M total.

"Tier" is also a relatively easy-to-use alternative. It implies increased complexity as the numbers go up without trying to tie the language to a particular cosmological view of magic.

So, definition I.e immediately set of alarm bells for me, because it reminded me of a lot of ugly stuff that happened with respect to DRM in the late 90's and early 2000's. But then I see II.a and II.b use it expressly to circumvent those exact problems. So the definition is a reference, not...

And such species are closely related, extremely rare exceptions, not the norm. It's not "every single type of vaguely similar-looking organisms" (eg: dwarf, dragonborn, tabaxi, aarakocra, triton, etc). That's one of the fundamental points of the term "species". If you want more readily viable...

This does actually put a viable spin on the use of the term "species", and the invalidation of the half- races. If some cosmological magic is what makes it possible for, say, an elf and a human to have children, but that magic is doing only the bare minimum to make that possible (because the...

While my overall reasoning is far more detailed (and I don't want to try to recreate the full essay I posted about this before), a simple analogy is that it's like using the pronoun "it" to refer to a person.

And there have been arguments about all of those words because they don't mean the same thing. Certainly, I found "species" as a replacement to be disgusting and dehumanizing, but now that they've sort of settled on it, we're getting arguments that are predicated on the meaning of "species" that...

I very much want this. I made a yuki-onna character for a game a while back, and while it was fun, it was also a lot of work because there were no official guidelines on how to do something like that. Even beyond mixed races, a generalized, "This is how you go about creating a...

I don't know what Descent into Avernus does with vehicles. For handling those creatures, though, I'd say that the rules I put together should work the same for them, mostly. They wouldn't be set up to do anything directly combat related, but if they are significant player property, the...

I had to take some time to think this over. My first thought was to adopt a little of Level Up's mounted combat, which has refined things from O5E. An O5E mount can only Dash, Disengage, or Dodge, though it doesn't require any action on your part to allow that. A5E allows you to direct your...

But, uh, that's not what's being argued here. The fact of men being stronger than women (both in average and at the extreme) does not require that a game incorporate that. But the game not incorporating that does not mean that the original fact is false. There are certain assertions being made...

With the Evasion plus HP leveling, a level 5 pony (medium mount, so lowest HP) should be able to survive a fireball or three. It has 33 HP, and takes ~14 damage on a failed save, and none on a successful save. I figured that should be sufficient on the survivability front. It's probably...