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Sure, I just wanted to offer an analysis of weapon mastery on the 2024 monk.

Weapon Masteries are... okayish on the monk at low levels. You can get a bit of extra damage (+0.75 from using two daggers, +0.5 from quarterstaff) or a Vex/Sap from using a handaxe or mace. The increase of average damage from Vex is roughly equal to 1.5, which makes it the best option for...

So, you want a full caster class for psion, but with a spell list? Okay, cool. thanks for answering my question.

Out of curiosity... If they made a psionic spell list, and gave the sorcerer the ability to pick what spell list to use (and spell points instead of slots), would you enjoy the aberrant mind sorcerer as a psionic option?

To be fair, we have Golems, which are basically just robots running on magic instead of electricity. The blaster Artificer uses wands to shoot beams of light (magic missile) at enemies instead of ray guns. And we have Aberrant Mind Sorcerer instead of psions. So no one can be happy! Yay!

I've been saying we need a list for bard since the second UA. The overlap of psionic spells and bard spells are close enough to a single circle that I wouldn't object to them being a single list.

I think they're getting rid of groups. Wildshape is no longer Channel Nature, Weapon Mastery is going to everyone and their brothers, feats no longer bound by Group... So, while I think the change from Way to Warrior is stupid, I don't think its going to have any confusion with Warrior group.

Which is a shame. I know a number of people are kinda bland on the new Elemental monk, but I'm loving it. The level 6 ability could use work, but the subclass is very attractive. It really does feel like an insult that I'm denied feats or weapon masteries to use with the subclasses though...

One thing that still annoys me about monk is that, compared to rogue, its bonus actions are too costly. Baseline, level 1 monk gets a BA unarmed attack that deals 1d6+DEX damage. At level 2, you get Flurry, Defense and Step - each of these require a ki point AND your BA. So, you aren't just...

There's a difference between subtly casting a spell so that no one knows you've just hit someone with a Suggestion, and someone who's hiding in a tree with a bow aiming a shot. Like if you're in a conversation with someone, casting Suggestion is obvious because of the actions and accompanying...

And many of them do. Getting supernatural beings to do things for you is a well established thing we have mechanics and limits for that entire classes are based on. Undermining a good chunk of the game is not a good argument. And I say that ignoring core book established differences is a cop...

I've read everything you said, I just disagree with you on a fundamental level. From my perspective, you're effectively asking to give the ranger abilities with no cost. You started off with talking about conversing with Awakend animals for favors. And I'm comparing that to talking to...

You forgot the "for me" in there, friend. You may come from that perspective but its far from universal, and its not certainly not true going by the book. Divine miracles and primal spirit invocations feel vastly different from a more academic manipulation of raw magic. All spells are not...

5eR Primal Magic has effectively defined nature spirits as critters from the Elemental Planes (and the Feywild, it sounds like). If you're asking an Awakened squirrel to do something on your behalf, then generally speaking, that's a kind of spirit magic the druid and ranger use. You're...

Discipline points just doesn't sound good. Spirit, focus, ki... any sound better.

Druids (and thus Rangers), Clerics and Wizards all cast magic differently. Clerics pray to the gods of the Outer Planes to send a miracle. Druids invoke Fey or Elemental "nature gods" to do stuff for them. Neither involves yelling or "flapping your hands like a drunk mime." A whispered...

This basically sums up how druids cast magic. At least the animistic "Old Faith" ones. In most fantasy stories I'm familiar with, using spirit magic like this usually does involve some kind of payment in the form of feeding them some kind of mana or ritual. If a cleric invoking their god for...

Okay. Thank you for the response!

I'm not saying to identify it. I'm asking you how your character knows, inside the narrative, that a spell is being cast. You're playing a wizard. There's an antagonist dressed in a magic robe holding a tome. How does the DM indicate that your opponent is casting a spell to let you know...

But HOW do you know? Like, what exactly is your character sensing that is tipping them off to a spell being cast? Or does your table just rely on the DM to say "X is casting a spell" without any in character justifications?