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None of these abilities depend on being attacked. They all depend on taking damage. I do agree with you that relentless endurance is better than the extra hp from being a dwarf! I'm not sure how to account for the dwarfs poison resistance, but my gut says relentless endurance is better than...

IMO. Focus fire is great, but you are generally much better off ensuring your team isn't being focus fired and oftentimes that means not being able to focus fire the enemy as effectively (or if they are then ensure it's an exceptionally defensive character that it's being done to). Any...

I don't think fireball is the best spell in the game at any level. But i do think it's a really good spell to have in the toolbox. It's certainly one of the best non-concentration spells to use level 3+ slots on. To me that places it solidly in B territory.

No, he's not ChatGPT.... or is he? ;)

The party also seems to have went in 1 at a time at least at the start.

Do A5E wererats have sneak attack?

I am sorry.

What I said still stands and it means one cannot balance short and long adventuring days simply by scaling short rest powers and other occurrences like crits by a set factor (kudos to you for trying to account for crits). Because short adventuring days feature harder encounter then caster...

Most battles should be easily winnable (no deaths) even with some bad luck and suboptimal tactics. Most players like encounters where they feel powerful. Not everything has to push them to their limits. They also like overcoming the really tough encounters, but the nature of the beast is that...

IMO. Not good. Just give me death over that permanent injury. Call on fate will make the game be less deadly but unpredictably so. Also might watch out for how things like lucky interact with it (I’m not super familiar with a5e specifically, so might be a non-issue). The first one is cool...

IMO there’s almost no way a human is going to balance such a system appropriately. So far you’ve mentioned 1 aspect, abilities get stronger the longer you wait, but there’s still the side of the coin where abilities used earlier in the encounter are more effective. Balancing this tightrope...

Ac would be higher of 13 + dex or beast ac. Though moon Druid gets good ac in beast form in 2024. Formula becomes 13+wis. So probably no improvement for him as Wis should be higher than dex.

Bonus action potions are a problem in games that give a lot of gold and shops with unlimited potions IMO. I don’t think many people’s games have both these things. A smaller but more common problem with bonus action potions is they effect maritals much more. Martials use many more bonus...

What spells from magic initiate would you recommend for the Druid/cleric. Shield Tasha’s Laughter Sleep Find Familiar I’ve even considered goodberry just to free up more spells prepared and the extra cast early is great. Any other ideas?

Different armor formulas don’t stack. Its use it or the other. If mage armor granted +3 ac it would stack.

What about deliberately choosing your single class for its abilities? You’re not wrong for disliking that, I’m just curious about what the difference is for you.

Cleric 1/Druid X also frees druid prepared spells up for something other than healing word and cure wounds, while giving them command. This is good because Druids get many spells they want to prepare and not a ton of prepared spell for them.

I like your suggestions, but one mistake I see people constantly make is trying to match resources instead of output per encounter. The issue is: As encounter difficulty increases due to number of enemies casters get stronger due to large AOE effects. As encounter difficulty increases due to...

Yea. There's also the daisy chain wake up which can make waking all enemies/allies net 0 additional actions lost when only having a single enemy left awake. It's also the major concern with Hypnotic Pattern. I mean it's not a wasted spell, as you cost N enemies each 1 action, but it's...

Hold my beeer!