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Ah ok, I didn't get that!!

All sounds and looks awesome! Only minor thing I personally don't like is the name "Sentinel's Companion": all other classes have a name which stands on its own, while this one lives in the shadow of the Sentinel. Unless it's supposed to literally be a henchmen and not a playable class

This also creates some minor inconveniences as one would have to remember that sword and board characters without the proper training will be making attacks with a different bonus on sword vs shield attacks, which is something that doesn't happen with 2 weapon fighting instead, and is the kind...

Hope you'll feel better soon!

OMG I can't believe it! So happy to read this!!!!

The wording of crits in a5e.tools implies that what's doubled on a crit is the damage itself, not the number of dice rolls (and of static bonuses): This is probably to avoid confusion with effect that make one roll additional damage dice on a crit. So if crits are not applied properly using...

There's a small typo in the second last line of the first page "body dot" instead of "body rot" @Morrus

That makes sense of course. I was considering the term as a standalone adjective or "tag", like epic or legendary. So not "horde monster", but just "horde", hence the confusion

That can change things significantly and IMO for the better! Really curious to see this development!

This relates to one of my observations as a non native speakers: when I read "horde" I initially thought it was referring to a group of monsters treated as a single entity, but LU already has that in the form of squads. Personally I would have found the term "minion" clearer in this regards...

I'll try with another Horde Ghoul 9 hp Paralyzing claw: (6) 1d6+3, on crit save DC 12 CON or paralyzed Bite: (7) 1d8+3 5 horde ghouls should pose a challenge equivalent to 2 normal ghouls, so 10 horde ghouls should be a medium encounter for 4 level 3 PCs. Given the party is more than 2:1...

Yes, I'm trying to figure out what kind of role these creatures have, and get a feeling of how much of a punch they pack. There's also the aspect of handling many individual creatures, which can become very cumbersome. Important to notice also that the template does not impact maneuver DCs...

Love it, and love the fact that one viable tactic to deal with Dominus is to try steal Bane: he'd have a 40% chance of being subject to the Bane itself with each successful attack!

Good catch, thanks! However this means that medium or smaller creatures won't have this penalty

Thanks for the clarification. I personally wouldn't be comfortable at all running the sample encounter I quickly put together in my first post regarding this (5 horde ogres vs 4 level 3 characters), unless I got something wrong and these are not the correct numbers for a similar encounter. I...

Please post your findings when you playtest them. I have a hunch that these horde monsters will be dangerous glass cannons

I don't think so: If the entry represented multiple monsters there would be some kind of specification about aggregate monster size and how many are represented, IMO

Exactly. The approach is the polar opposite, yet the niche is the same.

Interesting! A couple of considerations: as a non native English speaker I find the use of the term "horde" to denote a single weak monster to be confusing, something like minion would have been clearer to me. Also, these rules cover a different space than the squad template, where multiple...

Good catch! I double checked on the online resources and it appears RAW the sorcerer may hoard spell slots that way in a downtime period RAI I'd rule as you say, i.e. converted spell slots and spell points disappear at the end of a long rest. I didn't find any errata for this, so either the...