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I've been wondering if every class could be adjusted to have a basic bonus action. Fighting Styles could all use them, monks have martial arts, rogues have cunning action, and so on.

I'll check it out!

Hi everyone! I've been thinking about how to make an Active Defense system. The big change to the system would be that AC and Save DCs would be rolled, but the main element would be that an aware defender gets to choose how they react to an attack. For instance, if an enemy attacks with a melee...

You know, I actually love the idea of moving some humanoids to other creature types. It makes it clear who is a "person" and who is a fantastic creature. Why kobolds are dragons but dragonborn aren't is something that doesn't make sense at first glance. Also elves being fey touched while...

Thianhaa been an issue with GMBinder for a while. I'll triple check that it displays correctly when I put the updates together.

Looks like a typo on the Natural Armor scaling. Was supposed to go 15, 16, 17, similar to rogue in studded leather scaling, or medium armor 13, 14, 15 with +2 dex scaling, 1 below heavy armor scaling.

I think a solution where EVERY class has a bonus action at-will ability would be best. Then there isn't that struggle of "what will I do?", the player can just default to their class BA if they don't have other options. Fighting Styles could have all been a bonus action, for instance. Now that...

I'm enjoying weapon mastery, but I don't like how Nick is implemented. Luckily, because of Nick, I have been convinced that my TWFing house rules are just fine. Because of them, my Nick is getting replaced for an ability that lets the 1d4 weapons be paired with nonlight weapons for TWFing, so...

You have to hit with divine favor around 4 times before it matches the damage output of one Divine Smite. The only thing OP I'm seeing about divine favor is that the damage is per attack, and thus it gets more powerful with level without upcasting. Easy fix, make it hit once per round and then...

I fundamentally disagree, or at least that Hunter's Mark has to be OP in the hands of any class with concentration buffs. Divine Favor is almost exactly the same as Hunter's Mark, it just deals 1d4s instead of 1d6s, but it targets yourself, not enemies. Divine Favor can be stacked with...

The ranger's damage isn't an issue. The issue with the 2024 Ranger is it feels like their concentration is constantly locked up in Hunter's Mark. If that was changed somehow (such as making Hunter's Mark not concentration, make it's damage once per round, have damage and duration scale with...

This is so dumb, because both of these movies are great and would reach cult status if they, you know, sold DVDs and made a sequel.

That's a good way to look at it. Unskilled laborer can just be "unskilled in the line of work available", which is a real economic truth.

I really hope they go the simple route: Dungeons and Dragons: Tactics Single player, multiplayer, and asymmetric DM/players play styles Mini scenarios leading to a big boss fights System can be used for running D&D games This would be a great way to let people play solo when they're between...

Oooh, now THAT'S an interesting idea! Good, Evil, Law, Chaos, and Neutral could all have a little benefit (saving throw bonuses against specific things maybe?) that nudge characters in one direction or another.

Works for me. The only "concern" is it does make True Strike better, and the bard has lower damaging cantrips all around. But we're talking about +1 damage over most simple weapons when you go up to a d8, and light crossbow is already a d8, so I'm not overly concerned.

I feel like I may have explained myself poorly. My idea is still descriptive. Evil character eats baby, it makes them feel good. Good character eats baby, they feel bad. Character growth is still there. If someone keeps getting those feel bads, then they know to switch their alignment to...

I'm really happy that the 5.5/2024 DMG describes alignment as descriptive rather than prescriptive. It's a good explanation of alignment for new players, and a good reminder for vets. At the same time, having played in games DMed by other people, I realize I was really bad at giving out...

My 2014 PHB has simple shortbow and light crossbow with 80/320 ranges for each. Heavy Crossbow is 100/400 and longbow is 150/600, but in my 20 years of D&D I've only ever had 2 fights that started past 100 ft.

But right now, shortbow and light crossbow are simple and longbow, hand crossbow, and heavy crossbow are martial. If they were the same damage, crossbow had loading, and crossbows were simple and bows were martial, then things would be fine.