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Hard to say how well your specific party will do against this guy, only you know how high above the belt they can hit. All we can say is you had statted this guy as a rough CR 15, and this guy is significantly higher than that on paper, and that is before even factoring in a nigh immunity to...

I do like the idea of doing it publicly. I think so many people have this idea of dnd that is completely wrong, and then they see it and go "oh this, this looks fun" and your off to the races.

this is true. the one counter though is the battlemaster can nova with his manuevers by using one on every attack, the AA cannot. Also at 15th level the battlemaster takes off a lot more, since they basically get a free d8 on every attack outside of their superiority dice (whereas the AA still...

Nope didn't miss it....banishing is still by far the best of the bunch.

My quick review: 1) I agree the closed fist attack seems weirdly powerful compared to his normal attacks, it does more than double his black gauntlet attack. 2) Since its literally "Bane", I would have the bane spell work with no saving throw....or just make it an aura or something. When Bane...

on the arcane archer, if they just gave us one more reason to like int I think we could be good here. Int to initiative for example, just something that makes going hard int worth a bit more of my time, and this class can look good to me.

Funny enough accursed shield was one of my least favorite things about this class. No armor....so I have to have the mage armor invocation (and lets be honest I'm already using pact of the blade if I'm going this route, so that's two invocations committed for the concept)...and I have to have...

looking over the arcane archer, my quick and dirty: 1) Banishing Shot: Super good, always useful. 2) Beguiling Shot: Banishing is better 3) Bursting Shot: Doesn't scale that well but very good for an early pick up for that extra damage. 4) Grasping Shot: Banishing is better 5) Piercing Shot...

I believe you are correct! I will update my post

For this we want to list out the parameters of the whole fight to give others context, but of course if there is one element in particularly that really "sold" the combat, feel free to spend the majority of the post highlighting that.

So the main question is, is your goal to mimic existing dnd combat feel but without any attack rolls, or are you trying to create a notably different feel? For example, unless the armor is restoring after every combat, the attrition factor is going to be MUCH FASTER than standard dnd. Players...

In general I agree with the majority of your review. My one nitpick here. Considering that this is a US and Japan that have through a 5 year complete upheaveal in the world order (basically a mini apocolypse), and in which alien and advanced technology has been bought, sold, and traded....there...

No spoiler review. Of the 3 movies this is BY FAR the best dramatic movie in terms of plot and character. It really felt like someone went "I want to make a really good solid movie....and put some zombies in it" rather than "I'm going to make a zombie movie...and throw in some plot". So for...

If daggerheart was to upend anything, it would be due to the clout of Critical Role rather than the system. And Daggerheart is honestly not that different enough from dnd to upend anything imo. Now will the fame of CR get a lot more people to try it than most other indie RPGs....sure I believe...

I have done zero prep before. Basically its the classic "you all are in a bar and X happens" and then we go. A few important notes: 1) Now the key is, you have to be exceptionally good at improv as a DM. If you aren't relying on plans, then you have to be able to pivot and create on the fly...

Yeah this was my main complaint. Its not that I cannot find the devils in the new book (it is more work but I can find them), but so often I find that when I am using monsters I rarely go "I want an IRON golem, I want a BLACK dragon, I want an ICE devil".... instead I start from "I want some...

most notes about "cultural appropriation" I think are complete BS....but I do respect the offense of taking something that in that culture requires dedication and the earning of through some task and then just having it "because you like it". That one makes sense to me.

The OG Thread: D&D General - The Big Thread of Interesting Combat Examples In order to keep that other thread as a nice tight reference, this thread is for any commentary on the fights, questions, things you think could be tweaked etc.

The purpose of this thread is to provide examples for people of combat's you ran (not just thought of) that went very well. Combat's that were interesting and exciting to your players. This provides a nice reference for DMs who want to add more spice to their combats. For people's convienience...

The debate seems to primarily wage on this quote from the DMG (not sure if this is 2014 or 2024 or both). Normally, creatures in the Border Ethereal can't attack creatures on the overlapped plane, and vice versa. A traveler on the Ethereal Plane is invisible and utterly silent to someone on the...