D&D 5E Level 20 Class Competition Ideas

[Hohige]

Well, it is really pretty easy because all the things you want (such as the Eversmoking Bottle) won't take effect until your first turn.

Subtle Counterspell and Staff of charming counter everything.

 

[FrogReaver]

My knowledge and caring about magic items leaves me out. Good luck guys.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

I think the next step is a formal definition of the rules and win conditions.

 

[Spohedus]

What is the illumination in the arena? Are there areas of dim light or darkness?

 

[Phazonfish]

Background: Orshov Sindicate (For Spirit Guardians spell)

GGtR is not an allowed source.

Empowered Booming Blade: 1d8 +5 +42 Poison +7d8 Booming blade extra damage for 90 avg damage.

Quickened Empowered Booming Blade: 1d8 +5 +42 Poison +7d8 Booming blade extra damage for 90 avg damage.

Total NOVA DAMAGE: 260 damage.

Your damage calculations for Booming Blade appear to assume that your opponent not only always moves while under it's effect, but that they move on your turn between your attacks. Unless your opponent is actively trying to help you this seems exceedingly unlikely. Also Purple Worm Poison allows a Con Save for half damage. Also, Purple Worm Poison works on 1 successful attack before it has to be applied again.

If the enemy tries run alway, triggering warcaster for extra Booming Blade 90 avg damage.

Only if you stayed next to them instead of retreating into a wall.

These aren't the only issues here, I just thought I would let you consider some of the obvious ones.

 

[Zio_the_dark]

@dnd4vr I'm not interested in participating but as a spectator! How will you handle the competition with a virtual tabletop (if you ever run it who knows)?

 

[FarBeyondC]

@dnd4vr

I've posted some suggestions of my own here; let me know if any of them are useful.

My knowledge and caring about magic items leaves me out. Good luck guys.

Seeing that I never seem to understand what people are saying here (and assuming what people are saying is rude), can you provide clarification on this?

 

[FrogReaver]

Seeing that I never seem to understand what people are saying here (and assuming what people are saying is rude), can you provide clarification on this?

I probably couldn’t name 10 official magic items in all of 5e because looking at them has no impact on my characters (thus I don’t care about magic items which leads to me not knowing about magic items). In this endeavor that puts me at a serious disadvantage and thus I’m out.

you really should try to avoid reading comments as rudely as possible. Assuming innocence until proven otherwise leads to much better conversations.

 

[FarBeyondC]

I probably couldn’t name 10 official magic items in all of 5e because looking at them has no impact on my characters (thus I don’t care about magic items which leads to me not knowing about magic items). In this endeavor that puts me at a serious disadvantage and thus I’m out.

you really should try to avoid reading comments as rudely as possible. Assuming innocence until proven otherwise leads to much better conversations.

On the first point, that's one of the reasons I suggest doing different divisions. For example, if I want to make a character with as little to worry about as possible while not being disadvantaged against other characters, I'd declare that said character used only the Basic Sources, had only the Barebones starting equipment, and only participated in No Prep matches. That way, said character would only be required to be measured against others following the same configuration (though one can always compete in more advanced configurations if desired).

On the second, I was more referring to the (many) pages of back and forth that I often see as a result of one poster assuming another poster meant something that they didn't than reading comments rudely. I was going to respond to your first post:

My knowledge and caring about magic items leaves me out. Good luck guys.

In a different way, but stopped when I realized I had no idea whether you meant you didn't want magic items at all (which appears to be the case), wanted fewer magic items than what OP allowed for, or wanted more magic items than what OP allowed for.

I didn't phrase it in the best way, but I essentially wanted to clear up what was to me an ambiguous statement, before I made a response that may have went nowhere due to bad assumptions on my part.

 

[FrogReaver]

On the first point, that's one of the reasons I suggest doing different divisions. For example, if I want to make a character with as little to worry about as possible while not being disadvantaged against other characters, I'd declare that said character used only the Basic Sources, had only the Barebones starting equipment, and only participated in No Prep matches. That way, said character would only be required to be measured against others following the same configuration (though one can always compete in more advanced configurations if desired).

On the second, I was more referring to the (many) pages of back and forth that I often see as a result of one poster assuming another poster meant something that they didn't than reading comments rudely. I was going to respond to your first post:

Unless you have hundreds or maybe even thousands of participants I think those or terrible suggestions.

In a different way, but stopped when I realized I had no idea whether you meant you didn't want magic items at all (which appears to be the case), wanted fewer magic items than what OP allowed for, or wanted more magic items than what OP allowed for.

I didn't phrase it in the best way, but I essentially wanted to clear up what was to me an ambiguous statement, before I made a response that may have went nowhere due to bad assumptions on my part.

You are reading too much into it again. I don't have a preference whether the competition should include magic items, only that since it does I am out.