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I've toyed around with an idea for something like this, but never successfully played it out in a group, so I'd love to hear how it goes for you. Basically, in my mind, it changes/lengthens/dramatizes a social encounter, because the encounter becomes a series of "attacks"/"evades" &c rather...

So I just looked in the Player's Handbook and the value of 1 Pound of Gold is 50 gp. That's not far from what I said the historic value of the Gold Noble was (approximately 50.5 Nobles to 1 Pound Gold, at the first issuing). You could do something like: 1 gp = 80 sp = 320 cp. That'd line up with...

I've actually given a lot of thought to this topic, and historic currencies, for my own campaign world. For a start, Warhammer gets it wrong in keeping gold/silver/copper, although otherwise they are vaguely historic. Historic English monies: 1 Pound Sterling (silver) = 20 Shillings (silver...

Seems complicated. Why not just let the cleric re-choose a domain when they gain a level, if they don't like their current one? Or at a long rest?

Maybe. It depends on which of the equally orthodox and traditional interpretations of the word Nephilim that you subscribe to. I would dispute the labeling of one interpretation as being orthodox and the other as not. I would also dispute the titling of the Nephilim as the Sons of God. My...

Er, yeah. You're right, and that's perfectly admissible. You can fire 1 hand crossbow 4 times with that character, provided he always keeps 1 hand free. My bad. Carry on. Ignore what I said before, when I was improperly assuming the use of 2 crossbows. Oops.

No. See the Sage Advice compendium, which is considered errata and RAW, specifically this question: "Do the first and third benefits of Crossbow Expert turn a hand crossbow into a semiautomatic weapon?" The answer, shortened to its relevant bits (italics mine): "you can fire it more than once...

You could always check out Matt Mercer's Witch Hunter class. One of its subclasses uses Mutagens.

Fairly bog standard suggestions, IMO. Do something different. You say your DM suggests ranged DPS? You say neither your Paladin or Monk front-men are very good at what they do? There is an answer: Variant Human, Sentinel Feat, Spears and Shield, Purple Dragon Knight/Swashbuckler. Dump...

That's entirely true, yes. And also, for four editions running we've had direct support for the heavy-armor wearing, sword-wielding and shield-carrying and infidel-smiting kind of Cleric, and for four editions running we've had the question of what exactly is a Paladin's place in the lore of...

Sweet. Thanks for taking the time to so coherently explicate your assumptious condescension. +1

Force the -3 to everything applicable, and then the minute they start bitching about it forbid them from ever using anything but the Standard Array from thenceforth.

This is pretty much exactly what I've been experiencing in my recent runs as DM. Not long ago, my party decided to split the party. That resulted in a TPK (We were running the Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and they were killed by the kobolds in that cave part of the module. So much for that...

In the early game, the reason why Clerics were limited to blunt weapons was because of the very specific Christian forbiddance of clergy to shed blood. In the crusades, most notably the Teutonic Crusades against the Lithuanians, there are documented instances of clergy actually fighting on the...

My own experiences with the CR in 5e has been mixed. In a short campaign where I was a player, the creatures seemed to be pushovers. Our party was regularly taking down creatures that we had no business taking down at our low level. Once I started DMing, though, it's been consistently 180...

I considered this myself, but decided against it because of healing spells; I couldn't figure out how to get them to work in a HP-based system like that. Instead, I went with a Spell Point variant. Half the normal SP (as described in the DMG), but casters can still cast beyond that. However...

Have you considered introducing rules for body-shields? That is, those shields that were so big they had to hang from a strap around the neck/shoulder? Ajax, I believe, is described as having one in the Iliad, as is Hector? maybe. Pics: You can clearly see the shoulder strap (also called a...

Yes, actually, I have come up with a spell-less paladin. I call it a Zealot, and it's a Fighter subclass: FIGHTER — ZEALOT PERSEVERANCE Beginning at 3rd level, you gain a number of Perseverance Dice equal to your charisma modifier (minimum 1). If your charisma modifier increases, so does your...