D&D General The Crab Bucket Fallacy

[FrozenNorth]

I think it is a reasonable question as to whether Inspiring people is a strong fictional trope as a moment-by-moment thing in a fantasy small unit tactical scenario.

This really seems like sandbagging a trope: defining it in an overspecific way to suggest it is less popular than it is.

In playing D&D, people generally get inspiration from all sorts of media that doesn’t rigourously adhere to D&D conventions: including principally involving small tactical parties or each combat round being 6 seconds.

Combatants that inspire their comrades in a non-magical manner is a popular trope, across a lot of fantasy media.

Note that it is also a trope in the way you define it: there are a lot of examples of a hero being on the ropes, about to lose until he or she receives last minute encouragement from a comrade (“Remember X” or “Do it for X” being the most common). This encouragement can also take the form of pointing out an enemy’s weakness.

 

[FrogReaver]

The fighter has self healing of real HP.

And even his martial healing can’t bring him back from 0 hp.

 

[Minigiant]

There is the ranger subclass. It is bad, but I do think that conceptually is makes most sense as a part of the ranger. Let's hope 2024 version improves it!

The rangers power is tied too much into it's spells and skills

The pet therefore can't be the PCs main source of damage nor health.

There definitely shouldn't be even more caster classes with weak differentiation,. There are already too many. Could easily be a subclass of some of them though, and given how bland some of the subclasses are, this would be welcome

I mean like the elements monk or Pathfinders kineticist.

Are there people who want this? Then again, I'm surprised that there isn't one, considering that there are approximately seven thousand races. Should be easy to add though

My campaign has bipedal bulbasaurs because of player requests.

All hail King Venusaur.

Good. They're mostly painfully stupid.

Personal preference

don't think we need the sort of exoticisation. Most of them are just regional names for existing weapons, such as katana merely being a Japanese longsword. Granted, there are probably some that could use their own profile, such as boomerang.

Yeah I was the boomerang and mambele. Possibly shuriken.

 

[FrozenNorth]

Wwll they keep insisting in a mechanic that doesn't work in 5E terms. Look at the difference in rogue damage.

Our party has a sword and board fighter he's already feeling the left out part because I very rarely give him an extra attack via VoA. Usually only when rogues in the wrong space.

Most are arguing from theoretical positions I'm doing it in a real game. 1d6+6 vs 2d8+4d6+8. I cant do that at will and it's already magnificent. Battlemaster can do it as well order clerics kinda better as you're not giving up anything. 9.5 vs 31 average damage potential.

That's why it doesn't work at will or it's unbalanced.

It seems that the problem is fixed by having sneak attack apply once per round, rather than once per turn.

 

[Minigiant]

define Elementalist. There's no agreement as to what - or even whether an earth and an air elementalist should share mechanics.

Like the elements monk

But you know

Good

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Well one subclass outright sucks and none of them are really S tier.

The infusions need help too tbh.

Tiers are fake and the game isn’t about optimization.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It seems that the problem is fixed by having sneak attack apply once per round, rather than once per turn.

UA6 Rogue can use SA 1/turn again.

 

[Neonchameleon]

Like the elements monk

Please not like that disasterpiece.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Please not like that disasterpiece.

They just need to fix it, not to weirdly duplicate an already existing concept.

 

[Minigiant]

Please not like that disasterpiece.

They just need to fix it.

The issue is likely the designers were replicating something they personally had no interest in