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Yeah, thought you already liked Bard = Shaman, so I was eager to hear your thoughts on the new variable spell lists! :)

Just had a thought, especially wanting @Yaarel 's opinion! People who wanted Charisma shaman characters? Primal Bards. In fact, the College of Spirits might be a perfect choice for this. I'd still houserule that you can use a ceremonial mask as your spell focus when you take the College of...

How about Break-> Topple -> Daze -> Burst or Break -> Topple -> Launch -> Smash? ala Xenoblade? I Like the idea of having to break their stance before you can topple them.

If we define Priest as "ordained or an unaffiliated prophet within the faith of a religion", and Bishops as "a high-ranking ordained priest," then All Clerics are Priests, and all Bishops are Priests, but not all Priests are Clerics and not all Priests are Bishops and not all Bishops are Clerics.

I understood that reference!

Maybe have a Recharge Dice pool, which is equal to but separate from your HD. Depending on the length of your SR, you can roll 1 or more RD. 10 min = 1 RD 20 min = 2 RD 30 min = 3 RD 40 min = 4 RD 50 min = 5 RD 60 min = 6 RD Choose a SR recharge feature and roll a number of RD equal to 1/10th...

Maybe some sort of risk/reward table for short rests; you can recharge a portion of your SR pool or heal some HP in proportional ranges from 10m to 1 hr, but 1 HR recharges all of it, but the longer the rest, the higher the rate of risk of a complication arising (perhaps longer SRs add dice to...

Huh, I would have thought that because before you said most people didn't have a lunch hour, you'd be fine with the 30 min SR which is the standard lunch break for my contractors. They also get 15 min snack/coffee breaks every couple hours, so that lends itself to a 15/15/30/15/15 set up for...

FYI -- I also don't love full recovery on a long rest, and plan to provide this feedback to WotC on the survey. I think it would be nice to have a third category of rest -- Extended Downtime -- built into the game as a core rule assumption, rather than as something in the DMG. And I DO use them...

EDITED: Split out into separate post because I was editing it into the post when @Ruin Explorer liked the original post without this additional response, and I want to clearly delineate these as two separate subposts of the same overarching thread, which may or may not have the same reaction. I...

Funnily enough, I don't think 4e was that gamist. Yes, it tried to outright balance the classes with similar amounts of AED-recharging powers/class features and give everyone choices of Utility powers/class features as well, but the books spent a similar amount of time looking at other pillars...

I know I'm not the only one here who has espoused a preference for 1-hour short rests. Not going to dig back through 26 pages of this thread and all the other threads that have touched on this to find and cite the others who have seemed to support it. I also think they can speak well enough for...

This thread alone show how important it is for WotC to thread the needle between people who want Short Rests to die a fiery death, people who want Long Rests to die a fiery death, people who want Vancian recharge mechanics to die a fiery death, people who want one or multiple or all of these...

Ummm… I think we have different goals in mind. :0 To that end though -- it is IN the game. It's something we can use, and they thought about it enough to include it. It's just if we want to fix the balance of characters' major abilities recharge times and stave off situations where some players...

I'll be greatly surprised and very very happy if so. I wouldn't be surprised if they had 3 alternate plans each for Goliaths and Ardlings in December 2022: If over 70% of respondents like the species as part of the PHB, include in 2024 PHB. If over 70% of respondents like the species, but...

Emberashh, you have just changed my game for the better. I didn't know about Tension Dice, or AngryGM at all. Thank you, thank you!

They already did… what were Per-Day features are now Per-Long-Rest. There are optional plug-in guidances in the Core Rules and Rules Expansions for changing up what as Long Rest means. It may not be outright stated, but you could easily redefine the time-lengths of rests based on the game-play...

One could easily imagine those sorts of quests working if say, the Witch of Winter had transformed the entire Nentir Vale into a Domain of Dread (or a Winter Court/Gloaming Court Fey Domain of Delight; I don't recall the thematic underpinnings of the adventure and it's not particularly...

If it's in the DMG, it's not as popular an option for Players and it's not what the game is balanced around, though. It's an optional plug-in, and the PHB is the base-game.

Honestly, I like the Ardling a lot, but not for a PHB. I kinda wish it was being stealth-playtested for Planescape, in the same way the Owlin, Hobgoblin, and Kobold were stealth-playtested for MP:MotM alongside UAs for WBtW and FTD. I would love Ardling to appear alongside the Glitchling, the...