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Were it me, after 16+ levels* of getting blown up on a regular basis I'd probably decide Gunslinger is not the trade for me and pick up a bow instead. :) And no, it's not realistic; it's a gamist construct put in to limit the effectiveness and-or appeal of firearms, which - as real-world...

Nitpick: there's a fairly big difference between being "the most powerful person at the table" and "the most powerful character in the party". One can want the latter without caring about the former.

Except it is still in the equation. Not everyone is going to realize right away that the 2-3-5-4 bits are weaker, particularly if they're well-presented as being cool and-or fun and-or useful options, which means between that and players intentionally choosing a weaker option anyway those...

I'm not trying to stick with the idea of cantrips being blasted all the time. Quite the opposite, in fact. :)

The user can be as skilled as you like but if the gun itself is unreliable all that skill ain't gonna help. :)

Sorry, but this makes no sense. I'm coming at this from the basis of there being no upcasting; if they've got any 1st-level slots left then they can cast Magic Missile but if they're out of 1sts then no MM's for them. Flip side: the spells auto-scale with level. So in effect their low-level...

If 5e had scrapped basic + magic weapons, every DM and their little dog would have immediately added them back in. Net result: the same as current. I suspect the bigger flaws might have been a combination of over-reliance on bounded accuracy (5e-specific) and trying to tighten down the math...

Yes, exactly. The other things that can (but for any given spell don't have to) scale by level are range and duration. For Hold Person it could probably be locked in at two targets and left there.

Maybe that's what this new ability is intended to do - give you the ability to 'dash' whenever you want within the round plus make whatever move you'd get normally on your turn. Otherwise, what's the point?

Man, Shadows must have been nerfed along the editions somewhere. In games I'm used to, 5 Shadows would annihilate any party averaging less than 3rd level without any effort at all and would/could be a significant threat to 4th or even 5th level parties. I DMed a party of 1st-levels who decided...

Indeed, but there's no need to hand them those obvious "best" options on a plate. At least make them work for it. :) Not so sure here - I suspect many of these players don't necessarily care about being in the "useful range"; if they did, they wouldn't intentionally play against type like...

These two statements are in direct contradiction to each other. Strengthening the weaker options while at the same time not weakening the stronger options is power creep, all day long: the average has become more powerful. Put in numbers terms, where higher = stronger: Let's say you've got a...

What if each level had its own AoE damage spell (except 3rd by tradition has two: Fireball and Lightning Bolt) but each of those spells does a different type of damage. If for example you want AoE cold damage you have to use Ice Storm, a 4th level spell; at 5th level there could be an AoE acid...

You misread what I originally said. It's d6 damage per level. Period. Thus, 5th-level wizard gets 5d6, 8th-level gets 8d6, 15th level gets 15d6, etc. This and your other examples also fail to note two things about upcasting (one benefit, one flaw): the flaw is you're using a higher-level...

Where it makes a difference is if you are giving individual xp based on who participated in what and not giving xp to characters who aren't there e.g. because they're dead or stayed behind or don't happen to be in the part of a split party that found some action. In other words, not everyone...

No need to reorient the map, a letter N and an arrow pointing the appropriate way is all it takes. I just finished running a module* that used an iso map for the main dungeon/encounter area. Now granted, the area covered by that map was huge compared to the examples here, but as I couldn't be...

The map needs cardinal directions so as to agree with the (ideal) write-up and boxed text, which has exits and features noted by direction rather than by left-right (left-right is very bad practice) in order to allow for characters coming into the areas from unexpected directions. You're...

Isn't that just pure DM fiat, though? They level when you decide they level?

Yes, but those activities can be a wide variety of things... ...including things that are interesting to the character. That said, I guess the best way to put it is that I give xp for a) adventuring, b) contributing within said adventure, and c) being present in-character at the time. a)...

Better fix would be to just let damage spells auto-scale with level like they did in 1e-2e, and ditch upcasting completely. Fireball: 3rd level spell, does d6* per level based on your caster level. Boom. Simple. Done. * - or d8, if d6 isn't enough.