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Battle Smith + Elven Accuracy + Great Weapon Master + Haste did an awful lot of consistent damage. Remember kids, if your GM is silly enough to let flanking grant advantage, and your party is big enough to have 2+ melee characters, you really want to take advantage of it. :)

Seemed to work okay for World of Warcraft. I've seen a lot of fantasy/litRPG systems separate out melee warriors from ranged warriors precisely because they're very different tropes.

If I need a high level of Polish, I play the Witcher games.

A whole society based on probability? I mean, what are the odds?

I tried to keep it accessible; I figured a joke about Denxyis working for Organization XIII would be too obscure. :)

This does seem like a ... Heartless move on Disney's part.

I recognize that as your opinion. I think you're incorrect.

Steel defender is a creature, and can use a magic item as an action. Battle smith lets you spend a bonus action so your steel defender can use an action. No Sage Advice clarification, and the majority of posts I saw on Reddit and other sources supported that conclusion, and my DM approved it.

I can't speak to the 2024 artificer, but that feature was awesome for the 2014 artificer. Bonus action vortex warp 10 times/LR (via giving the item to the steel defender) was amazing.

I know what they were saying. Upcasted damage spells do less damage (or have less utility) for the same spell level slot than a spell with a base of that level. I'm saying that's a design feature, not a bug.

Cure Wounds is an artificer spell. A Cure Wounds cast with a 3rd level slot is a 3rd level artificer spell. Ergo, it can be spell-stored. There's nothing I know of in RAW that says the base level of a spell is an intrinsic property of the spell. The actual level of a spell is only defined by...

No it's not. The point is that you have a limited amount of spell known/prepared options; the caster is choosing between the full-damage higher-level option OR having a utility option and relying on upcasted lower-level spells when they need a damage option. Upcasting, when combined with...

Yea, obviously we'll need to see all the details to be sure, but it looks like they managed to thread the needle here.

If your concern is that those with money and power get to make the rules, you've got a long, difficult road ahead of you. :)

Also relevant that the compounding successes of Warcraft II, Starcraft, and Warcraft III made Blizzard as a studio a very popular, followed property; similar to the reputation Larian enjoys now following Divinity:OS2 and BG3.

I think the deeper question about starting with subclass at 1st level is "How much of your character concept is pre-defined before the game starts"? Is the game about "character expression" (using the table time to demonstrate your character concept) or "character growth" (the PC is much closer...

I think some of this comes down to how we personally decide our expectations. When I go out to dinner with friends, I'm not expecting to go to my favorite restaurant. I'm expecting everyone to have some opinions and we'll come up with an option acceptable to everyone. But I don't think the...

Yea, that doesn't shock me. The synergies between the more limited power sets like Wax and Wayne, or the weirdness of Misting savants like Spook or Miles is something that can be explored. Mistborn were pretty well illustrated by the first trilogy. It's sorta like nobody really wants to make...

All this. At a more vibes level, the '90s aesthetic died off pretty quickly (at least here in the US) after the dot-com bubble burst and post-9/11. The original White Wolf lines were all very much of their time, which made moving back into them more difficult. Also, the end of the original...