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At the end of the day. No one cares what you or I think is RAW. RAI has been clarified. If you don't like it then use it however you want. There are far more interesting topics than contagion.

What you're suggesting would be the same as suggesting combining the Wizard archetypes..

Afflict is a flavorful word which means affect. The very next sentence discusses how that affliction manifests (the saving throws). Are there any other spells that talk about repeating saves before they talk about the result of the effect? None of that I know of.

"At the end of each of the target's turns, it must make a Constitution saving throw. After failing three of these saving throws, the disease's effects last for the duration, and the creature stops making these saves." I'm not sure how much more clear the book can be. You may disagree with the...

I agree that the Psionic spellcasting is very similar to the 5e spell system which is why they don't look so different. I don't agree that a slot system is better than a point system. But you could easily switch the class to be slot based. It would be great if we could talk about this without...

Casters are not quite as quadratic as before, but they are still far ahead in terms of versatility, utility, and burst damage. The tradeoff is they have less sustainable damage (doesn't matter as much in the adventuring day setup) and less defenses (AC and HP). Martials definitely have their...

Added the following clones of 5e spells as they fit the class: Reverse Gravity, Astral Projection, Gate, Globe of Invulnerability, Maze, Etherealness (was a psionic power I crossed off before because I thought it didn't exist in 5e), Contact Other Plane, Locate Creature. Also renamed Modify...

Fireball, as a 3rd level spell, does more damage than Ice Storm (4th) and Storm Sphere (4th) (fair as those do some light CC). When cast as a 4th level spell it does the same damage in 1 turn as a Vitriolic Sphere (4th) does in 2 turns. It does about the same as Wall of Fire (4th). When cast as...

A level 5 fighter optimized with GWM does 28 damage per round (math) A fireball is going to do 21.7 damage to each enemy hit. (28*.55)+(14*.45). A fireball will generally hit 3-4 people - lets call it 3.5. That's 76 damage. 6d6 makes it 16.05 per enemy, or 56.2 damage. Fighters can do damage...

People say this, but I have never found huge AoE damage to be "bottom tier". In my games it has huge impact. Fireball is a 3rd level spell and scales just as "poorly" as all spells in 5e do - a spell that scales does less than a spell that is that level by default. Meteor Swarm is incredibly...

It is by far the most damaging 3rd level spell next to Lightning Bolt. They do as much damage as 4th level spells By my Spell Balance calculations Fireball should be 6d6 and Lightning Bolt should be 6d8.

"Spells approach"? You'll have to be more specific. 5e spells, unlike their 3.X counterpart, do not automatically scale. They scale in nearly the same way that 3.X psionics did. So it should be no surprise that a new psionic system looks pretty similar to a system that mimics the old psionic...

Psionics! I finally decided to bite the bullet and convert psionics to 5e. After a month of work converting powers and the Psion class I am at a state that is ready to receive feedback. For those of you who don't know psionics is a system similar to magic that has existed since the beginnings of...

I saw that thread and planned to reply. The short of it is I started a similar project over a year ago: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?426551-Buffing-Bottom-of-the-Barrel-Spells-(Cantrip-2nd) I did up to level 4 or 5 spells. Some of my solutions have changed since then, but it...

Unarmored defense doesn't mean melee any more than mage armor does. They accomplish the same goal. A priest in wow always had more HP than a wizard so o personally wouldn't go for d6 hp, but the route you're taking of lower hp for spell recharge seems good.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned DMG 287 yet:

Compendium is open to non paid users so if you do end up using a sheet (either my Shaped sheet, or the OGL sheet) that is an option as well.

Us: Thanks so much for the high praise. I'm very happy to hear these kind of unsolicited messages - they encourage me to keep working on it. :) For those interested you can read the forum thread or simply select the shaped sheet from the list of available character sheets when creating a campaign.

If you use the Shaped sheet you can drag & drop from the compendium or import from JSON if you're a Pro.

After thinking it though the ability to use spells offensively directly steps on the toes of the Paladin and doesn't make much RP sense. https://docs.google.com/document/d/10oMeRVNt26eoC_i1ueWAN3lxDXZe2YkRzq7XxUWfZw4/edit was the direction I was heading a while ago. The key part being...