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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 6930000" data-attributes="member: 6788736"><p>Gave blinsight to the ghouls, an extra 1d6 fire damage to the helmed horrors, changed up spells on the casters, and the dragon is a caster variant. Nothing big, and plenty of room to tweak them further.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is intentional. A GWM/ GWS fighter is giving up on AC (from 2-6 points from his shield and defence style, and dependent on magic items in the world) to deal greater damage. He's also taken GWM as an ASI which weakes his skills and saves (simply by not taking the ASI) and makes him less versatile (he's now pidgeonholed into using heavy weapons).</p><p></p><p>If he's placed in situations where he can reliably use GWM every single round, this matters less. If he's forced to draw a handaxe and use that (ranged) or fails a str save by 1 or an athletics check by 1 then it starts to bite harder. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Combing bless with GWM isnt a broken combo; its good teamwork that is (situationally) very potent.</p><p></p><p>Its no different from the two party barbarianscombining with one taking Wolf totem, and the other taking bear totem, Sentinel and GWM, and the two working in tandem. The Wolf barbarian grants the Bearbarian advantage while he rages, and the bearbarian takes half damage from all attacks and gets to clobber anyone who attacks the wolf-barian via sentinel.</p><p></p><p>It encourages the party to work together with the sum being greater than the parts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 6930000, member: 6788736"] Gave blinsight to the ghouls, an extra 1d6 fire damage to the helmed horrors, changed up spells on the casters, and the dragon is a caster variant. Nothing big, and plenty of room to tweak them further. Which is intentional. A GWM/ GWS fighter is giving up on AC (from 2-6 points from his shield and defence style, and dependent on magic items in the world) to deal greater damage. He's also taken GWM as an ASI which weakes his skills and saves (simply by not taking the ASI) and makes him less versatile (he's now pidgeonholed into using heavy weapons). If he's placed in situations where he can reliably use GWM every single round, this matters less. If he's forced to draw a handaxe and use that (ranged) or fails a str save by 1 or an athletics check by 1 then it starts to bite harder. Combing bless with GWM isnt a broken combo; its good teamwork that is (situationally) very potent. Its no different from the two party barbarianscombining with one taking Wolf totem, and the other taking bear totem, Sentinel and GWM, and the two working in tandem. The Wolf barbarian grants the Bearbarian advantage while he rages, and the bearbarian takes half damage from all attacks and gets to clobber anyone who attacks the wolf-barian via sentinel. It encourages the party to work together with the sum being greater than the parts. [/QUOTE]
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