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I like the dual-specialization trick they pulled here. It is like the Warlock. You have your Subclass, and then another specialization. Scaling of channel divinity is well done. Turn undead is tweaked, with a L 5 auto scaling feature making it possible to turn them to dust. Life domain is...

In 4e, there is Astral Sea, Ethereal, Far Realm, Fey, Shadow, Prime, Elemental Chaos. The Abyss is a part of the Elemental Chaos. The other "higher" planes are all pockets within the Astral Sea, including Hell. Hell is has been sealed. The Elemental Chaos isn't "elemental plane of fire" or...

Sure, but with one of these means you learned how to port a Java app to WASM. Which, to some people, is fun. With the other, you have your bank account shrinking by 8k every year, and if it gets more popular it gets worse. I know which one I would be more likely to be able to convince my...

The problem I'm aimed at is that it costs money to run the simulations. Moving the work to the clients computer makes the only marginal cost be bandwidth. Free (for the provider) is a feature.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68265863/how-to-compile-java-to-wasm-webassembly WASM will run anything. Know how Javascript is interpreted by a JIT in modern browsers? (Like google V8) -- WASM (basically) skips the "compile javascript to bytecode" step and just provides the bytecode to...

The "fun" project I could imagine would be recompiling it into wasm files, and have the client do all of the work. There is bandwidth considerations (getting all of the data down to the client), but not using server-CPU to do the calculations is a big plus. Written with a bit of care, the...

The point of origin is "self". The point of origin is included in the area of effect. A 10' radius centered on "self" thus includes "self", as "self" is the point of origin. A 10' radius sphere is at most 20' long on any axis. A 10' radius spell cast by a 30' by 30' creature has "self" as its...

You are using radius wrong. More specifically, you are taking one geometrical use of radius that you happen to be aware of, and declaring that any other use is wrong. That isn't evidence you are right. That is evidence you only know of some uses of the word radius. Any wedge of a circle can...

If you are using a mathemagical definition of radius, then no it is not limited to measuring a circle. Any arc has a radius. For example, take the points within 1 unit of a unit square: this is a rounded rectangle. The quarter-circle components that round the corners are described as having a...

I'm basically quoting spirit guardians, just replacing spirits with flames and 15' with 5'. "You call forth spirits to protect you. They flit around you to a distance of 15 feet" vs "A flaming aura surrounds the air within 5' of the creature". How is that different? Spirit Guardians does talk...

Purchasing of stolen goods for fair prices without bringing the heat down.

But, "radius" is not defined as a circle around a point of origin that needs to be on a grid intersection. The entire grid rules of 5e are completely optional. Claiming that the definition of what spells do is defined by optional rules is sort of backwards. If your explanation of how a 5e...

I did that with all of the half-races. The Bael Turathian empire used magic to produce half-elves, half-orcs, muls, goliaths, and tieflings. The noble caste mixed their blood with fiends to enhance their ability to use magic, and bred special-purpose slaves using half-human stock. Half-orcs...

So, "within a 5' radius" of a castle won't include someone touching the castle? Then, I will never understand you.

If spells are 30% better than his model indicates, then when you subtract away at-will, consumables are like 50%-75% better than the model indicates. The conclusion is not supported by the data. Like the data is great, the conclusion is way stronger than the data provide evidence for.

I'm just curious; why would it require significant server CPU -- with Java wouldn't the app that did the simulation be downloaded to the client system and run the sim there?

Talking about a 15' radius is going to confuse the issue. Imagine a spell with a 5' radius around a creature. Like "A flaming aura surrounds the air within 5' of the creature". If you cast it on a dragon 20' by 20' dragon, does it cover some 10' diameter sphere? Or does it cover everything...

In my world building, I have an explicit Law-Chaos axis. Road and Wall societies are on the Law end of the axis. Hill and Sky societies are on the Chaos end of the axis. As I want extensive wilderness, but also want huge cities, I make my worldbuilding cause this. Road and Wall exploit...

They beat part of the "civilized" people. See, what if the elves and dwarves won the first centuries of the war? They pushed the orcs back and back, claiming more and more territory with magic and fortifications. Then the orcs found their own magics and ways to defeat the fortifications of...

He reproduced much of the WotC design with a bunch of errors. Those errors are usually bounded by 25% ish. The errors he gets include: 1. Spellcasters aren't worth the same XP as other classes. 2. Classes with rest-based resources are worth less XP than other classes. 3. Classes with...