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You get usually at most 2 top level spell slots, and 2-3 of your 2nd from the top. The idea that this is your baseline level of power means ... every turn comes from a 4 round adventuring day? This isn't baseline power -- this is a description of top power output of a spell caster. By design...

The power budget of a spell in combat comes from two sources. The first is the slot level, if any, expended. The second is the action expended. For a spellcaster, the floor on the value of an action expended is a cantrip. So, casting a 3rd level spell has a power budget of (action, at least...

No? You can reach 5' away. When someone leaves 5' reach by 1', they trigger an OA before leaving your reach. At that point they have moved at most 1' and are tagged by booming blade. They are free to say "nope" and move 1' back to their original location. The 5' move grid is an optional...

Except, the OA occurs the moment you leave reach. And the booming blade triggers after you move 5'. This means that the person hit with the OA has a full 5' to say "ok, maybe I shouldn't move" after leaving reach to avoid the damage. Usually the 5' units don't matter much. But if there is a...

Treat squares and 5' steps as an abstraction. They leaving your reach. They are now boomed. They can stop moving right away in response in continuous movement case, like after 1 foot. Mapping back to 5' squares, this means they don't actually leave the square, as 1 foot isn't enough. While...

Yes, swordmages got some fun "you violated my aegis" encounter powers. And unlike the paladin, "I mark you and run away" was on-brand for a swordmage, as it was an evasive defender. Paladin's mark required they attack the target or move adjacent to it. Swordmage's by design did not. So the...

One fun thing 4e swordmages had was the ability to leverage their magical sword's abilities to enhance spells. So a +X sword acted as a +X spell focus, and a sword that did extra fire damage enhanced damaging spells with fire damage. I think it is a worthy mechanic for a 5e import. ... The...

A "shield" around the swordmage also works. In 4e, with the myriad of defender marks, the swordmage's Aegis was interesting in that it let you, nay encouraged you, to mark a foe and move away from them. You'd then use your presence somewhere else to tank, plus interfere with one foe's ability...

This may be heresy, but having Aegis apply to an ally instead of an enemy (protecting them) feels a bit more 4e. Like, you put your Aegis (shield) on an ally, and when that ally is attacked you can teleport to their aid. Or interpose. Or snare the attacker. Using that, the level of the Aegis...

4e swordmages where perfectly happy in light armor. It was the Avenger that was unarmored. Their ward does replace a shield, however. 4e swordmages had both their aegis and an option to swap between 1H and 2H. The weapon choice was relatively under supported, but there was some support. 4e...

This really depends on what you want from a Gish class. More specifically, what do you want from it that isn't covered by: Bladesinger Blade/Valor Bard Eldritch Knight Paladin Hexblade Warlock or, honestly, multiclass mixes of above, or the above plus dips. This is a bunch of "I cast spells...

Ridiculous. The neutral alignment doesn't exist. And if it did exist, it couldn't be an Owlbear.

What if... the archeologists summoned the souls of heroes who died to it already? (And those are the PCs)

But the "baseline game" is much smaller than that. Like, literally "fighters get 4th attack at level 20" vs "fighters deal an extra set of weapon damage dice at 17" is within the level of tweaking that could occur even close to the last minute (last year?) for a game. And that level of...

Then why are they one subclass? There is little in common between them.

While I get the school specialist as an overaching thing, it doesn't work. A necromancer should be more than a generic "specialist of necromancy spells". The fun parts of abjurer and necromancer aren't those that are generic "you are better at spells of school X by this factor", but are...

Spell Blast (UX, counter spell that costs X) is more interactive than counterspell, because Spell Blast cares about the mana cost of the spell it is countering. A "remove soul" spell that cost X, where X is the creature's power, and then does Y to the remove soul caster, where Y is the...

They are also all made of cardboard. Oh, I get it. I used a MtG jargon in the wrong way. I was unaware of that particular jargon difference of reactive vs proactive counter-play. I was not using the word "reactive" in the sense of "reactive counter-play", but as in "reacts to what the...

Good MtG play is reactive. Bad MtG play is cards that ignore most of the other player's cards features. This is counter, destroy, eliminate, discard mechanics. Simply because they don't interact with 90%+ of the other player's card. To deal with it you need to have cards that specifically...

How tall are you? under 0.5 feet under 1.0 feet under 1.5 feet under 2.0 feet under 2.5 feet under 3.0 feet under 3.5 feet under 4.0 feet under 4.5 feet under 10 feet Now, this is a 10 choice multiple choice question. But most people will answer the same answer. A bunch of "no, that doesn't...