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So.... how do you know a spell is being cast if you're not allowed to know any of the signs of casting a spell?

Isn't this being a little bit nitpicky? Like, if you're facing someone dressed as a holy knight, is swinging a glowing sword and crying out "Die Heretic!", there's a very good chance that its a smite. Fireball, as a spell, requires a Focus, vocal components and hand gestures, usually described...

Considering that the original context was comparing Step of the Wind versus Cunning Action Disengage... can't we just assume that the "no cost" was a reference to the lack of an associated resource, and thus allowing the Rogue to spam it round after round? And drop the rest? Nitpicking that...

My problem with the monk is that several of its abilities feel bad. Like, monk feels too fragile in early levels. Giving them better AC or HP so its not as bad. They're still melee characters, not ranged. It feels bad that Weapon Mastery doesn't apply to Unarmed Attacks. If I have a build...

Ehhh.... On a lark, I ran a side by side comparison of all three Monk subclasses compared to a Champion Fighter, we'll say Human for now, though I do prefer Halfling for increased mobility when mixed with Step of the Wind. The fighter took a scimitar and short sword, the monk took a handaxe...

Nah man. You're not going far enough. Look at the UA barb and champion fighter - they're getting good at skill stuff too. Skill Expert and warrior classes are just two sides of the same coin, same as healers and blasters are just two casters. If we're combining casters into one class...

I don't mind class exclusive spells. But it... well, I don''t know how to feel about sorcerers and wizards getting their own Eldritch Blasts; feels like it makes them feel a bit homoginous. Though I suppose that's no different from the sorcerrs losing spontaneous magic angle too. Or expertise...

There's plenty of people that want nature mage druid. It was a significant enough responce that JC mentioned it in the video. And nature-mage involves quite a bit of things. Summoning, healer, environmental manipulation to name the most basic. That same video also established that there's...

I don't know about ala carte options or the like, but I know I personally want to focus on a single animal (ie roleplay a werewolf, or fox shifter, orwhatever). And, going by the video, I wasn't alone in that desire. So, while there very much are people that want a swiss-army-knife wildshape...

From what I understand, there's no intention of putting the artificer in the core, so we're probably not going to see a 5eR version for a long time. Sadly.

All new classes beyond the core 12+artificer are going to be repeating the themes of the 13. Hells, sorcerer is practically already defined as "metamagic-based Arcane/Divine/Primal/Psionic full caster." Its all just a question of how we want the mechancis, and thus the playstyle, to be...

I know that the UAs have suggested that Artificer would be an Expert...but I kind of prefer them associated with the Mage group. I prefer the Mage-based epic feats to the Expert ones for Artificer, and I don't like the idea of the Artificer being hedged out of options when they're caster-like...

I think of druids and primal magic in general as "spirit magic" to use a more commonly used phrase. I also think that they're going to merge the Feywild and Shadowfell with the Elemetnal Planes to reform the old octohedron Inner Planes, and these fey, elementals and ghosts will serve as the...

Oh, I've never said its overwhelming at all - indeed, I've said that its unlikely to be overwhelming. I am just saying that acting like everything is naughty word and only people who hate the class will be glad its "butchered" is counter productive. It just makes people defensive and upset. Pact...

If things were as bad as you say, Neonchameleon, then there wouldn't be playtest reports of people enjoying the UA warlock. I understand that your preferred playstyle isnt' around anymore, but its clearly working for others. Especially the bladelock seems to be getting much love in the way of...

Don't forget the mount for the paladin pet! And, yeah, I think its fair to say that WotC hasn't quite grasped how they want gishes to work. Of course, its also fair to say that they haven't figured out quite how martials work either. But I do think they're getting closer with the martials...

Its moving away from what one of the two playstyles I mentioned used to do, possibly others. There's more than one side to this. Flip that around, and... we already have three other Arcane full casters that effectively do the same thing the warlock does, and can generally do it better than the...

One thing I've noticed from reading a lot of the actual play reports and the like. There seems to be two main camps when it comes to playing a warlock. I'm sure there are others, but... People that played warlock as a pseudo-full-caster with lots of short rests are one style. Big booms (or...

Nope. If you go back to my first post on the matter, you'll see that I'm more considering that we should remove magic items entirely from the issue. Not just in a theoretical sense, but a mechanical one as well. Its distorting the matter. You want a thrown weapon because its nearly as strong...

To be fair, my favorite things to do with warlock spell slots were mainly buffs. Armor of Agathys was one of my favorites to have up. Most of the warlock unique spells were level 1 and 2 spells, with Hunger of Hadar and Shadow of Moil (a crappy Fire Shield clone) as the exceptions. If they...