NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 9653353" data-attributes="member: 23484">Quick thoughts:Aritficer: reanimator. Really fun idea. You should need a corpse to make a companion.Bard: spirits. Another hit. Smattering of Wild Magic, with a sepulchral theme. I love how more abilities come online as your bardic die gets bigger. Really fun design. Cleric: grave. Completely solid, stronger than in XGTE.Ranger: hollow warden. Everything is buyilt around Wrath of the wild, and it's very strong. Ancient Armor will give +3 AC on top of medium armor, better than plate, but not broken like the Genie Paladin was. Unnerving Aura very powerful. For everyone who has complained about Rangers forcing you to use Hunter's Mark, this seems a pretty solid riposte, and could be a really fun, dex-wielding melee character. Peoiple will be excited because Phantom Steed is on the spell list.Rogue: phantom. Solid and playable, as before. Soul trinkets need a bit of a rewording -- are you capped at 2 (then 3, 4) trinkets? I think "regain" implies a cap, but it is not clear. They are easy enough  to get in any case. Sorcerer: shadow. The Hound was the best part of this subclass, imo, and so losing it is a disappointment. Extended Summon undead, though, is pretty cool. Warlock: Hexblade. This seems very powerful -- the level 3 abilities will be a lot of fun to play, but give a combat flexibility that will overshadow other classes. And the spell list!  the PHB 2024 had worked to protect class-specific spells for the half-casters, keeping the lore bard from taking them, but that has lasted all of six months. Here the Hexblade is getting ranger and paladin spells at 5 and 7 that normally only come online at 9 and 13. This is overclocked out the gate.Warlock: undead. I'd never spent time thinking about this subclass before -- it's thematically tight, and the possibility of changing spells to necrotic damage every turn is evocative.</blockquote>

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