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I think there's some ambiguity in the wording of the spell. The way I read it, the advantage and speed boost aren't a benefit the caster enjoys for the duration of the spell. They only get them for one turn, the first turn they make a weapon attack, which seems balanced to me. Perhaps they...

I'm a fan of Warlock as a sort of build-your-own class. Do reliable ranged DPR with little investment, then allocate resources towards whatever you want to achieve. Big blasts and rituals for a wizard-like caster. Or invest in durability and melee DPR for a gish. Invisible minion and utility...

Worse than that, since you then have to successfully hit the subsequent targets. Even if you do get a lucky streak it seems like a dice rolling nightmare with all the d6s, d8s and d20s. And keep that table handy if the damage type matters. Thematically, it's fun, but mechanically it's one of...

Why does it need to be melee? Agonizing Blast plus a heavy crossbow attack is a pretty nasty ranged combo without investing any feats or spell slots. And for me, multiclass combos like that are what War Magic is really about. Once you have War Magic and a SCAG cantrip, you have DPR that's...

I agree that rules have a flavour and should be harmonious with the themes they try to represent. Personally, I wouldn't mind swapping the core mechanics of sorcerer and warlock around. Metamagic feels like "cheating" the rules of magic as you might expect of somebody who bargained their way to...

I don't know if they've put out any errata or fixed it for the printed version, but pretty much everybody assumes that to be the case. Even so, the spell gets quite strong with a high level slot. Too bad (or good thing?) there are no maximize effects that can be applied to it.

Easy fix: Deny them all surges. If that doesn't make them miserable enough, add more encounters per day.

That's just it. Rarely is a non-battlemaster interested in taking the feat. And they've likely taken it after they've already capped their main stat and picked up a couple other, more desirable feats, as a luxury because the fighter enjoys so many ASIs. When only one subclass wants a feat...

I like this idea very much. In particular how it opens up abilities to builds that would normally ignore them because the cost was too high and benefit too low (e.g., a warlock might like to EB adjacent foes, but has little use for the rest of Crossbow Expert. Some feedback on your particular...

I haven't seen that movie, but the EK has enough play in it to grab a few key illusions. Blur is particularly great for them. Clever use of Silent Image could be useful to funnel enemies towards the EK and away from allies. And with the SCAG melee cantrips, you only need 7 levels of EK to get...

I guess I misunderstood what you meant by "baked-in." You seem to be mixing up at-will and long rest abilities, class and subclass features, and I hope this doesn't come off as rude, but I really don't know what your point is? All classes get features that help them survive and be effective...

I'd still be tempted to apply it to the powerful ones. Nevermind being able to Twin full spells a little cheaper, just being able to Twin cantrips for free would be almost on par with Agonizing Blast. The sorcerer would still be a little behind without being able to double up on the same target...

Sorcerers have very little "baked-in stuff." In fact, they have the most restrictive set of at-will abilities of any class. Minimum HP, minimum armour and weapon proficiency, minimum skill proficiency. They have one more cantrip than the average caster, and that's it. Some sorcerer subclasses...

Not really a design oversight so much as a boneheaded rule interpretation. I don't think anybody in decades of DnD ever rolled a single d4 for multiple magic missiles until Crawford made that ruling. But yeah, if the evoker gets to have cheese, I guess the wild mage gets to have cheese whiz.

XP for the reminder that Disintegrate does more than turn annoying peasants to dust. For me, sorcerer is best at debuffing, and how you debuff is really a question of what metamagics you choose. I chose Twin because it's versatile enough to work well with buffs, debuffs, and attack cantrips...

As with so many other things: That depends. Protection is situational (needs to attack nearby ally), costs a reaction, and applies about a -5 penalty to a single attack. Defensive style is also situational (needs to attack you), doesn't cost a reaction, and applies a -1 penalty to any number...

Gnomish spell resistance is supposed to be their special trick, I think. But you're right, if small races are going to drop down a die size pretty much across the board, they should get something in return. And might I add, the rule where they roll 1d4 negative damage is particularly...

You're taking a pretty liberal reading of that ability there. Even if you take for granted that they actually mean "touch or self" when they only say "touch" (and I wouldn't), there's a difference between the range of a spell and the area of the spell. Giving Detect Magic a 30' range doesn't...

Mechanically, yes, either ability lets you get around resistance, so there's some redundancy buuuut... Would Arctiklon, Underlord of the Frozen Wastes cast a mere Lightning Bolt? Fie! He casts Icicle Bolt, and FrostBlight, and Melf's Minute Snowballs. Snowballs cold enough to slice through your...

1. Sure, that makes sense and gets the point across that the sorcerer is picking a theme. 2. 3 is definitely too much. Heighten isn't expensive on account of damage spells, its expensive on account of save or suck spells. A Hold Monster will wreck the target more decisively than any blast. If...