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How on earth is this balanced?! Twilight cleric, more in-play evidence
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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8332301" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>And you've just hit the first issue. You do not always get 14 dex. Possibly it doesn't fit your character concept, possibly it's not what you rolled. And yes 5' of movement matters - but so do stat points and so does 3ish points of AC.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand they might scale - but for the first four levels almost all cantrips are behind weapons. And roughly half of clerics have an extra d8 to their weapon not their cantrip damage so from level 8-10 their weapon damage is significantly ahead. So for seven of the first ten levels weapons are doing more damage.</p><p></p><p>And IME relatively few campaigns go past level 10.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile the dex 10 cleric has all those choices plus wandering around and getting beaten down.</p><p></p><p>Making more choices (like Dex 10 clerics both at high and low STR) play decently isn't a ribbon ability unless you believe the only way to play is that you must always under every possible circumstance make the optimal choice in character creation and you have full control of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8332301, member: 87792"] And you've just hit the first issue. You do not always get 14 dex. Possibly it doesn't fit your character concept, possibly it's not what you rolled. And yes 5' of movement matters - but so do stat points and so does 3ish points of AC. On the other hand they might scale - but for the first four levels almost all cantrips are behind weapons. And roughly half of clerics have an extra d8 to their weapon not their cantrip damage so from level 8-10 their weapon damage is significantly ahead. So for seven of the first ten levels weapons are doing more damage. And IME relatively few campaigns go past level 10. Meanwhile the dex 10 cleric has all those choices plus wandering around and getting beaten down. Making more choices (like Dex 10 clerics both at high and low STR) play decently isn't a ribbon ability unless you believe the only way to play is that you must always under every possible circumstance make the optimal choice in character creation and you have full control of that. [/QUOTE]
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