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    D&D 5E (2014) Challenging High-Level 5e Characters

    How is that fun for the players?
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    D&D 5E (2014) If "Extra Attack" Was A Feat, What Would Its Prerequisites Be?

    Unless someone gives you a Bonus Action in which case you act on their turn. My PHB has disintegrated but isn't there a Battlemaster manoeuvre that does this? And a spell or two?
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    D&D 5E (2014) If "Extra Attack" Was A Feat, What Would Its Prerequisites Be?

    Yes, and the rogue's damage scales with Sneak Attack, not Extra Attacks, and the Rogue can currently get up to 3 SAs per turn - plain attack action, Bonus Action, and reaction. Hence my limitation of not being able to use SA on the Bonus Action granted by this feat.
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    D&D 5E (2014) If "Extra Attack" Was A Feat, What Would Its Prerequisites Be?

    I've arrived 16 pages late, so apologies if I'm covering previous ground. Feats are not supposed to give class features. And it should come well after Fighters get their second attack. So I'd make it use the Bonus Action: Extra Attack Prerequisites: 8th level, proficiency with the wielded...
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    D&D 5E (2024) We’ll be merging the One D&D and D&D forums shortly

    I will be buying the new PHB if only because my PHB is disintegrating.
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    D&D 5E (2014) (House Rules) All weapons do the same damage... Who has made this work?

    You use the last class in which you levelled.
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    Cutting the hardest D20.

    This is a thing of beauty.
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    D&D General What's your best D&D tip (50 words or less)

    Try not to railroad; players instinctively rebel and fight to the bitter end. If the adventure demands a particular set-up, start there and take a step backward. "You all wake up in a prison cell / you are standing in front of the baron accused of X / whatever. We're now going to game how you...
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    D&D General What's your best D&D tip (50 words or less)

    If you all are having fun, you're doing it right.
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    Dual Wielder vs. Polearm Master

    Since this thread has been resurrected after so many years, let me weigh in again. I ask people to consider a spear-wielder with the Duellist fighting style and PAM. A one-handed spear does 1d6 + Str + Style (+2) so an average of 8.5 damage at Str 16 for a base attack and a first level PC can...
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    D&D General Does a multiclassed fighter still get the Action Surge Boost at level 17?

    There's nothing stopping a DM from restricting cantrip damage from spellcasting classes (as opposed to feats) by class level. It's neither RAW nor RAI but Rule Zero applies. It's your campaign. You could similarly restrict a Barbarian's Unarmoured Defence to a maximum of the lower of their Con...
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    Dragonlance Kaz The Minotaur Comes to 5e For His 35th Anniversary

    Many years ago I found a fanfiction which was a blatant plagiarism of one of his short stories and emailed him about it. He was gracious enough to reply.
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    Behold the folding polearm!

    Tod recreates a weird weapon from history:
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    D&D 5E (2014) Best one shot for 3-4th level characters, with players who really enjoy combat

    You could avoid that by making the PCs multi-classed (4+1 or 3+2). It would give them some extra survivability and flexibility.
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    D&D 5E (2014) [+] Ways to fix the caster / non-caster gap

    I'm not sure what you mean by a 'plus thread' and I'm 20 pages late but anyway, for me a big problem is that the Fighter isn't actually very good at fighting, both offensively and defensively, and you have to use Action Surge for combat instead of one of its many non-combat uses. Fighters also...
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    D&D General Theros Reforged

    Do you have the Mythic Greece sourcebook? It was written for the Hero System but it's an absolute gem.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Power Word Kill (variant)

    [Aside alert!] The real advantage of Meteor Swarm is its one mile range, outside the range of Counterspell and hard to detect the casting in the first place. You have an enemy spellcaster flying or teleporting around with a bunch of these on scrolls and your party is toast if they don't start...
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    D&D 5E (2014) please post advice for novice DM like myself

    If everyone - including yourself - is having fun then you're doing it right. Everything else is secondary.
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    D&D General High level spells requiring more time to get recovered

    Some years ago I suggested that spellcasters should recover some spells - up to their Proficiency Bonus -1 for full spellcasters - on a Short Rest and 1 spell per spell level on a long rest. The base number of low level spells got halved. So you just restrict the number of long rests that the...
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