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In the setting I'm writing, I'm using basically a 4e basis for the cosmology. We have the prime material with its echos Shadow and Fey (or is the Prime an echo?). The "near" Astral is called the "Ethereal"; the Astral Plane has at least 5 dimensions of space, and when you approach a plane you...

So first, it is Scimitar (Nick) and Short Sword (Vex). You have the two-weapon fighting style; this means attacks made due to the light property add your attribute bonus to damage. You make an attack as an action. This lets you attack with one weapon; I'll assume the short sword. This...

I'd rather go with dual-classification. Humanoid Fey Humanoid Aberration Humanoid Beast Humanoid Elemental Hold Person can freeze a Humanoid. Humanoids who have another type (except beast) gain advantage on the roll. Weres who turn fully into animal lose the Humanoid type.

What? No. A CR 30 monster to a level 20 party is like a CR 15 monster to a level 10 party, or a CR 8 monster to a level 5 party. Difficult, but not "you are dead unless you cheat".

28x3 = 84 28x2 + 24.5 (GB) 28x2 + Weakening Breath Making it 2 rends instead of 1 gives us 42 damage per rend. Still burn a rend for a GB means we'll want a L8 GB (!) or so to keep the damage gap similar. Multiattack: The dragon makes two rend attacks. It can replace one of the rend effects...

First, I'd be willing to shred cannon. Second, make them less paragons of their virtue, and more like how the shadowfel/feywilde is an echo of reality with glasses on? So Mount Celestia could be a greek philosopher ideal world, but still has the chaotic wilds; for what is law and good without...

In traditional D&D, Humanoid monsters started out with a base set of stats. Then you'd tack on PC class levels (!) to make them more powerful. This inherently made the Humanoid monster's upgrade feel like it was part of the world - it was casting spells that the PCs cast and recognize, it was...

Brainstorm level ideas: "Levels" are worlds, but worlds are constrained. Up is generally deeper - you climb the central world-tree, which takes on aspects that aten't tree-like. People have set up communities on this world tree. Lots of settlements. Vines strangling the world tree. Also...

Every bonus action class feature says "once per turn you can do one one of the following:". "Doing so does not use your action." Then a system for "bonus attacks" to keep them from stacking 50 feet high, sort of like how extra attack doesn't stack. For spellcasting: You can cast a leveled...

Also Oat-eater, which is great for making fun of them. "What is he, a horse?"

The nice thing about "Oath-Eater" is that it is agnostic about if the Oath is broken; it could eat evil Oaths, it could eat good Oaths that are broken, it could eat intact good Oaths. The class just ... eats Oaths. Nom nom nom. Sin-Eater couldn't (semantically) eat the Oath of a virtuous...

Ok, I'm trying to find a fun name and niche. And I don't want it to be "dark mc dark dark fighter" in name or in core theme. Just like in 5e a Paladin can be a Paladin of Vengence or Conquest, by reaiming Paladins at being fueled by a mystical Oath instead of goodness they gave the class more...

Sadly I think the combo remains relatively boring. 2024 champion is a bit better, with natural athlete at 3, which encourages use of some skills. Making the Champion be a simple, effective and not boring fighter is a challenge. I keep on going back to doing stuff like "when you take a second...

Battlemaster did a few extra dice of damage per short rest. The way to make it not suck was to turn those extra dice of damage into extra hits and extra chances to hit. Precision, Riposte, Brace. Now your dice stretch out over a few more rounds, and each use is about twice as strong. Then...

For a "village" of 66 people? I mean, I'd have a Sheriff "Captain Spell Bomb" and a Militia. The militia are members of the community that know how to use weapons and have gear at home if called up. Not a standard guard. Even the Sheriff isn't a full time guard. Just they are in charge of...

Ya, limit it to one ring of resistance. As a DM, I'd also have very rare RoRs that resists 2 damage types, and Legendary three damage types. Having 10 RoR is boring and silly.

You become flanked if you end your turn with enemies on both sides of you (surrounded). You remain flanked until you are no longer surrounded. While flanked, all attacks on you are at advantage. Result: The advantage isn't free. Lots of incentive to move. Even to take OAs to avoid being...

The answer is simple: when you grapple and drag them, the DM determines where the enemy goes. As the grappler, you don't have any special control over where they go. You can drag/carry them along, but you don't have any more say than that. Controlling where they are down to the square is...

Yes, you can write and invent rules that break 2024. This doesn't tell you much about 5e rules. There is no rule saying a dog can't play basketball either. In practice you'll get someone cheese gratering a foe. And the DM who hasn't seen it before will read up on the ambiguity and say "it...

"Similar"? I showed it was significantly less damage than 2014 XBE build. So it is less OP than 2014. Which answers the question "no, 2024 PHB is not the most OP of all time". And I also demonstrated that it isn't significantly outdamaging a really obvious "I am a fighter and I carry a big...