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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PJ Coffey" data-source="post: 9404235" data-attributes="member: 6901867">I certainly wouldn't hit the berserkers with non s/b/p damage every fight! That would be terrible GMing right? Completely invalidate the player agency and character choice!But Magic items are available for money and as part of hordes. I don't see the need for dedicated mages when an NPC with a scroll is cult enough.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😉" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" title="Winking face    :wink:" data-shortname=":wink:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> Thanks! Nice to have someone engage with the thinking and purpose. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😀" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" title="Grinning face    :grinning:" data-shortname=":grinning:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />You do have a point! By level 6 a planetouched berserker from the tyrannised culture could be resistant to poison, fire, slashing, bludgeoning, piercing, thunder and lightning! That is an impressive list. Of course, by level 3, a bear totem barbarian is resistant to all of those and cold, acid, necromantic, radiant, and Force damage and with the Vedalken heritage would also be resistant to psychic as well.I will tend to push back against the "A5e is overpowered" claims because they always seem to neglect the things removed, e.g. reckless attack and bonus rage damage. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤔" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" title="Thinking face    :thinking:" data-shortname=":thinking:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> If anything A5e characters are more limited in ways to gain damage compared to the standard 5e builds with sharpshooter gated at level 8 and great weapon damage being always at disadvantage rather than a -5 which reckless attack easily overcame.But it's been two years. None of this is news surely? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😀" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" title="Grinning face    :grinning:" data-shortname=":grinning:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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