D&D 5E What (if anything) do you find "wrong" with 5E?

[Ruin Explorer]

longsword is better than a fist.

Yeah, but in Monk mechanics that's not true, that's my point lol.

 

[Horwath]

Yeah, but in Monk mechanics that's not true, that's my point lol.

it's d10 damage, martial arts catches up at 17th to that.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

it's d10 damage, martial arts catches up at 17th to that.

I guess, assuming you have a Monk subclass that lets you use a longsword as a Monk weapon.

 

[Horwath]

I guess, assuming you have a Monk subclass that lets you use a longsword as a Monk weapon.

like, every monk?

 

[DND_Reborn]

I guess, assuming you have a Monk subclass that lets you use a longsword as a Monk weapon.

More likely it was the elf factor.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

like, every monk?

No?

They get simple weapons and shortswords. Elves are proficient in longswords, but it doesn't count as a Monk weapon, so they can't use it alongside Unarmed Strike, and thus do very poorly with it unless they have a class which makes longsword a Monk weapon.

Monk weapon and proficient weapon are two different things. You literally cannot use the main DPS mechanic of a Monk when armed with a longsword (unless you're a Kensei who selected longsword or similar).

More likely it was the elf factor.

Elf makes him proficient, but doesn't make it a Monk weapon, and it's literally inferior (drastically inferior, even) to a shortsword for a Monk if it's not a Monk weapon.

EDIT - WAIT!!!

Was this post-Tasha's? Because yeah then you get Dedicated Weapon if the DM allows it. I'd forgotten that.

 

[Horwath]

No?

They get simple weapons and shortswords. Elves are proficient in longswords, but it doesn't count as a Monk weapon, so they can't use it alongside Unarmed Strike, and thus do very poorly with it unless they have a class which makes longsword a Monk weapon.

Monk weapon and proficient weapon are two different things. You literally cannot use the main DPS mechanic of a Monk when armed with a longsword (unless you're a Kensei who selected longsword or similar).

yes, longsword is from elf, and because of monks dedicated weapon(2nd level Monk) it's chosen as monk weapon.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

yes, longsword is from elf, and because of monks dedicated weapon(2nd level Monk) it's chosen as monk weapon.

Yeah I'd forgotten Tasha's added that. For some reason I was assuming this was long ago too lol.

 

[glass]

Tier 1 Monks

I know that "tier 1" means something very different in 5e from what it means in 3.P, but this still made me do a double take!

Its to be noted that the least successful incarnation of D&D was so not because it was badly designed, but because it violated the expectations of its extent base too much. That's not an atypical situation.

I am pretty sure the least successful edition of D&D was Holmes Basic. What expectations did it violate?

_
glass.

 

[Baron Opal II]

Surely that can't be right? Lost Mine of Phandelver is approx 55000 words, so the DMG has to be much more than 80k.

Those are the estimates I was able to find. Is the 5E DMG available in pdf? Someone with the right Adobe product could verify that.