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I'm not a massive fan of burning HP for power, even through the proxy of hit dice: Its always seemed to be a way of having additional power/spotlight at a price that another character (the healer) will have to pay. If you're trying to set a price for a hit dice, I would use this as a basis: a...

Is getting the crit damage against multiple paralysed targets particularly common though? Even if there are multiple targets paralysed through upcasting, are they really likely to be close enough to each other?

I would definitely say that late Tier 2, Chromatic Orb is better than fireball. At lower levels the comparison is more towards fireball, but Chromatic Orb scales so much better once you're rolling enough dice that bounces become reliable. Generally I've seen it used by Sorcerors, who have the...

I believe those are more leaning into the vibe of "punk" being about rebellion against the establishment. I think at the time when the establishment and current culture was more into "realistic", "grim and gritty", "dark" and "edgy" Hopepunk was an aesthetic in direct defiance of it. When much...

. . . You might want to actually consider what we are looking at here. 1) Dark Sun's take on arcane magic is very setting-specific, and probably unnecessary for more generic content, which is what these UA suggestions are at the moment. 2) Destroying the plants and the land's ability to sustain...

Dragonshard? - I'm sure there was an Eberron-themed D&D strategy game. Also both D&D MMOs: Dungeons & Dragons Online and Neverwinter. (Although Neverwinter is free to play, so "sales" would be hard to track, even if player numbers are available.)

Remember the familiar isn't actually a quasit, unlike if the character had made an actual deal with a quasit. I would probably rule the same as you did: The familiar can keep its form until it needs to be resummoned, but is bound by the restrictions of the base spell. - You could lower the HP...

Not a fan. Strength-based characters are already overshadowed enough without there being an entire range of items that allow other characters to just leapfrog ahead of them in something that they have had to invest in heavily.

I believe that they primarily used bows, but they still spent the ASIs to raise Strength to 20 and had magic greatswords. They didn't even pick up Sharpshooter. Blocking line of sight would be a first move to try to buy some time against them, but they could run in and use their blindsight to...

I think that initiative was pretty pivotal for this challenge. The entire point of Treantmonk's team was to prioritise and remove other characters before they got to act, because a high-level caster is capable of reshaping the battlefield itself. Targeting the Champions with spells would likely...

This challenge is leveraging the initiative and action system, and so Champion's Remarkable Athlete and heroic inspiration is doing most of the heavy lifting. No cover, no tactical opportunities. No exciting damage spikes or effects, just reliable damage that you can look at the opponent's HP...

If a spell has secondary targets, such as GFB's fire leaping to another creature, or Chromatic Orb's bounce, it wouldn't be a valid choice to cast with Warcaster. The trick of course is that at the point of casting Chromatic Orb, you do not know that there could be one or more targets. With...

No, seems about right for most players of martial types. +3 bonus fits: Start with a 14 + 2 background/species bonus. +1 from your 4th level feat = 17. That's a +3 bonus. At level 5 you're not guaranteed to have any magic weapons, let alone the ideal one for your build. There are several...

Mostly interacts with feats. Is the idea to get the damage increases from the 2-handed feat, style, and polearm mastery, while still getting the advantages of using a shield?

Maybe specify non-heavy two-handed weapons for the last point? Unless that was the point?

"As good a caster as a Wizard, but better at Rituals" would be a tricky needle to thread. I'm not sure how to make a class better than a wizard at rituals in a manner distinct from wizard mechanics whilst maintaining balance. The concept of the order of wizards performing their hermetic rituals...

In my experience it is extremely rare for a store to have significant amount of healing potions. The only time I've seen a player stock up on those sorts of numbers what when players asked "Do they sell healing potions?" and when the DM said "Yes." they didn't ask how many, they just marked down...

Something that was missed out that I thought should have been taken into account is damage type effects not connected to immunity/resistance vulnerability. For example Fire is commonly resisted, but it is also extra-effective against Trolls, without being picked up as a vulnerability by the...

I like them: They provide consistent damage over multiple encounters, they provide additional control by their presence, and they support the rest of the party by being another target and hit point pool to absorb attacks. They're also useful in comparison threads like these because the damage...

Indeed. Generally however I've found that the way spellcasters consistently out-damage martials is through the use of persistent duration spells (spike growth, cloud of daggers, summon spells, etc.) combined with lower level or at-will effects. The issue is that in most situations, I've found...