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[thelordofthemorning]

All I know is if the wolf has darkvision then the cat had better have it this time around, no, I'm not bitter about O5E not giving cats darkvision as a life long cat human, why do you ask...

 

[m0dredus]

Real Cats (not shape-changed into) in my games have 30ft True Sight. Accept no substitutes!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The wolf changes are quite strange here. So, losing an AC and 1.5 damage (or 2 if using average) but gaining a single point of Prone DC as well as gaining darvision seems weird. The wolf is now much less of a threat, even if the cool 'wolf jumps on you' moment is 5% more likely.

I don't know... do you take 'basic melee damage' (or whatever it's called) when you fall prone?

 

[Faolyn]

I don't know... do you take 'basic melee damage' (or whatever it's called) when you fall prone?

I don't think so. Or rather, the wolf doesn't seem to be using Knockdown or Shove, which would cause basic melee damage. It's using an unnamed wolf ability that's a side effect of its bite.

Of course, if you want to say that it has two attacks, one bite and one Knockdown, just so it inflicts that extra damage...

 

[Stalker0]

That warhorse is actually a good bit different. Less offense and speed, but with a lot more HP.

tiger: just once I want to see “tiger uppercut” as an ability of theirs

 

[WinnableBadger]

Is this the last day?

 

[Morrus]

Is this the last day?

Yes.

 

[VanguardHero]

The wolf changes are quite strange here. So, losing an AC and 1.5 damage (or 2 if using average) but gaining a single point of Prone DC as well as gaining darvision seems weird. The wolf is now much less of a threat, even if the cool 'wolf jumps on you' moment is 5% more likely.

My guess is that the numbers on o5e Wolf severely undervalued Pack Tactics. Assuming they get it 80% of the time, it's effectively a +4 to hit, mathematically. Advantage being a +5 on average not quite guaranteed. With the more solid backing for CR levels makes sense they'd want to bring it in line.

 

[thelordofthemorning]

Add on that with the CR limit on A5e Beastmaster, they probably wanted wolf to remain CR 1/4, so they instead down tuned it to be in line with the new CR math instead of leaving it as is and increasing its CR.

 

[Morrus]

275 (just in case)
Happy to be annoying about this. I want my invocations.

275! And that's it with these, folks. The PDFs will be in your hands in (checks watch) about 6 hours!