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I think this can create some serious problems for classes that recover powers on a long rest basis. At a minimum, class powers that recharge on a long rest should become "per day".

I see your point, but I don't think the wording of the maneuver is specific enough to grant an additional action on top of any previously taken action without any further qualifications. I do agree with this reading, overall. I just don't think that the wording is precise enough to warrant...

In LU you can increase/decrease a monster's HP by 10% without altering its CR. Beyond that, you should reduce or raise its AC by 1, or its damage per round by 5%, for every 5% of hit points you varied from the base hit points. Your case would be the opposite: since you already increased its DPR...

No worries! I just didn't want my interpretation to pass as an official statement about RAW or RAI :)

I'm not convinced about your interpretation of Flowing Form, or of maneuvers in general. About actions, the rules open with: "On your turn, you typically have an action, a bonus action, and your movement". Regarding combat maneuvers in general, we have "Many combat maneuvers are used alongside...

Wait, wait, I'm not an A5E designer. I just remember the discussions and posts of the designers on this forum when the game was being publicly playtested. It would be great if some real A5E designer gave us a clarification.

I think additional attacks should not be allowed. Otherwise, if an Adept with the Warrior Monk archetype were to benefit from additional attacks, due to the fact that each crit would both allow him to spend exertion to activate new maneuvers (and get the additonal attacks) and to the fact that...

That part is a leftover from a playtest version of the game, and no longer an official rule, since no combat maneuver requires a certain number of attacks to activate anymore. Instead, in their description it is specified if you can only perform one attack or more

I'd really love to use a5e with odissey od the dragonlords! Any hints/warnings?

To be fair, this should be the case for pretty much any RPG

It's the maximum suggested CR monster for level 4 characters. Above this and one-shotting PCs, or even TPKs, become a very real possibility

It says how much total CR you need for an Easy, Medium, Hard, Deadly and Impossible challenge. It tells you how many encounters of each type a party of a given Tier can probably manage in a day. It tells you that Tier 0 characters can be very squishy, so low CR monsters should be accounted as...

It might be useful for some people, but the same monster will classify as several of those simultaneously: it could be an Elite for level 3 PCs but a standard for level 6, a grunt for level 9 and a minion for level 17, for example. If you don't find that multiplicity an issue (too much info)...

Nice! I just noticed that Chapter 2 at page 3 is called To Slay a Dragon. Shouldn't it be To Stake a Vampire?

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The EoM and magic item systems are two parts of the ruleset that would need some official cleanup. I know that a 1.3 is not even planned, but I hope that it will eventually tackle some of these issues. In the meanwhile I'd go for the table that results in the best gameplay experience at my table

That's because high CR monsters typically have several attacks while low CR monsters only one. If you stick to the rules and cram all damage in a single attack you'll see that the problem persists

Thanks! I did not read the description of the monster, I was just looking at the various giants available and that one seemed out of place

Because burst damage is worse than damage spread over time (and over different PCs). Doing as much damage instantly can knock a combatant down, making it's DPR contribution 0 until it's conscious again Furthermore consider this hypothetical scenario: a normal monster deals 30 DPS, and a cleric...

I had a similar thought quite a while ago: a system where there's some sources of power (martial, arcane, divine, focus, primal, etc), and a way to convert from one to the other with imperfect efficiency. Each character would have different pools of the various resources, depending on the...