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  1. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    "How many targets can you hit with an AOE spell" is a completely different question from "how many attacks can you do". Conjure Volley isn't even a single attack roll, it's a saving throw. Also Action Surge doesn't let you do Conjure Volley twice since it is a magic action. There is so much...
  2. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    My son played basically that same character in a campaign where the DM had a homebrew rule that all cantrips were bonus actions (so what you wrote was achievable without metamagic). It wasn't annoying at all, his turns took like 30 seconds - roll a big handful of d20's, count up the...
  3. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Sandbox style: Rumors say a +1 sword is in a cave nearby. Go get it?

    Depends on the source of the rumor. Are they trustworthy? Are they someone I want to gain favor with? How funny is the NPC's accent? I'm not doing anything because of some random tavern rumor no matter how powerful the item supposedly is Now if some random NPC with a funny voice wants me to...
  4. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    Ok maybe I'm just missing the sarcasm or something. Considering the large amount of incorrect other statements they have made about how Action Surge works, I'm not sure it was hyperbole, but hell if I know what's going on
  5. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) What are your 2024 houserules?

    My new homebrew rules related to 2024 edition: Conjure Minor Elementals scales as +1d6 damage per level instead of +2d8 Hunter's Mark can be moved for free when your target dies Divine Intervention does not change the casting time Spirit Guardians (and similar spells) can only deal damage once...
  6. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    Again, what are you talking about? There is absolutely not any way you can do 1024 or 2048 attacks in a round. Action Surge gives you, at the absolute most, 5 extra attacks if we're including Echo Knight subclass. Where are you getting 1000+ from?
  7. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    What are you talking about? Action Surge gives you one addition Action, which can be used to do however many attacks your class is capable of doing with the Attack Action. So at Level 5 you get 2 additional attacks, at Level 11 you get 3, and at Level 20 you get 4. That's not a "popular...
  8. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Anyone else dislike the "keyword" style language of 5.24?

    I definitely wouldn't say they're doing an amazing job at using keywords effectively, but it is pretty clear that they did put effort in 2024 towards using keywords to make wording less ambiguous or open for interpretation, at the expense of making wording sound natural. There are some...
  9. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Anyone else dislike the "keyword" style language of 5.24?

    "Natural English" leads to far more confusion and ambiguity. I greater prefer the emphasis on Keywords for clarity. Your argument does make sense; I hadn't thought about this before but I agree that the newer style provides more constant reminders that you are reading game rules and is less...
  10. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    Fair enough, tone doesn't always come thru properly in text, and it seemed like a serious critique since that inevitably happens repeatedly in every single thread where anyone posts anything about 5e. It's hard to not be annoyed at how acceptable it is to threadcrap on any discussion about 5e...
  11. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    My bad I guess I should've quoted that person then :)
  12. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    There's nothing complicated here it is just a Level 20 Fighter with a Greataxe and a contrived scenario with multiple enemies lined up like bowling pins. The only "complicated" part is you need a friend to cast Haste on you, but that's just outside help, not part of the character build. It's...
  13. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    Why do people go into a threads labeled as D&D 2024 to post nothing helpful except that they prefer other games or editions that no one here is talking about? Shouldn't you go post in threads about whatever edition you enjoy instead of putting others down for liking something that isn't what...
  14. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    No one is talking about using Mage Hand to disarm traps or pick locks, we're talking about Mage Hand purposely blowing up traps since it can't take damage. This isn't always wise, if blowing the trap would destroy something valuable. Also as noted by someone above, it's not particularly...
  15. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Non-Human Party - Campaign help!

    Why would a village be only humans though? Surely Tabaxis, Orcs, Elves, Firlbogs, and Fairies would live in villages too and have the same tie to saving a village as Human PCs would Anyways that's unrelated to the point of the thread and I only ask since it looks like you got some good...
  16. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) 13 Attacks a Round the Most You Can Get?

    You can bump that up by 3 with Echo Knight's Unleash Incarnation
  17. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    100%. Personally I hate traps and think they're boring gameplay best left in the 80's, but it's still a legitimate playstyle for tables who enjoy old school nitty gritty dungeon crawling, and Mage Hand completely negates that aspect of gameplay. Sure the DM can be "creative" and make...
  18. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Limiting Utility Cantrips

    Totally agree with all these points. Limiting cantrip casts per day just adds needless stuff for players to track and probably doesn't even address whatever the perceived issue is with them in the first place If you want to run gritty realism DnD but certain cantrips (plus low level spells)...
  19. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) What is your go to Concentration spell?

    Gotta be Hunter's Mark am I right?
  20. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Non-Human Party - Campaign help!

    Thread already has a bunch of helpful plot ideas, I have nothing better to add but I am super curious how motivating human characters somehow differs from motivating a party of non-human characters. Every DnD party I've ever seen was mostly non-human PCs and I've never seen any adjustments to...
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