Endie posted:

And I really don't get why people played Tomb of Horrors after July 28th, 1975, but I get that there is a market for that sort of death puzzle thing.

Tir McDohl posted:

Is Paladin in general a bad multiclass?

blastron posted:

Friday's Adventurer's League party consisted of four half-elves and a kobold (me!). We played a module that started off in Mulmaster, city of racists. We got through a checkpoint by telling the guard captain that we'll either stop the crazed drow from coming out of the pit or we'll die horribly and remove four more non-humans from the world.

Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:

Why in the gently caress can I not buy a digital copy of this game in 2017?

NeurosisHead posted:

Like everyone else said, piracy. That being said, the last time I was poking around in D&D Beyond I noticed that there was PHB content in the spell list, with a spell description that was basically "this is blank but will be available after the beta launches to final". I'd bet they'll do some sort of subscription or digital purchase thing for content, since their plan is to build D&D Beyond as a sort of content storage platform for streaming and playing D&D.

DarkAvenger211 posted:

Is the 15 point max limit good for most people? It's only a +2 bonus unless you pick a race that pumps it up a bit more. Which may be totally fine but I don't want players to feel pidgin holed into picking a race because it gives their class a bigger bonus.

bewilderment posted:

The most fun all-around monk is the Shadow Monk because they can still do everything that makes monks good (go fast, stun people) but they also get a lot of tricks they can use both in and out of combat, like shadow-teleporting, making darkness and so on.

Kaysette posted:

human fighter supremacy

slap me and kiss me posted:

Best part:

"...five years ago, I never would have chosen the game’s most popular match: the human fighter. There are already enough human fighters in movies, TV and books — my first character was an albino dragonborn sorcerer. But these days I can get behind the combo’s simplicity: It lets you focus on creating a good story rather than spending time flipping through rulebooks to look up spells."

Sion posted:

I miss healing surges. Dependable healing allows you to actually, you know, plan for this poo poo. A potion that gives 4d4 healing and costs an amount that reflects this vs a potion that gives 8d4 healing and costs more but can still heal less than its cheaper counterpart seems silly and not economically sustainable for an alchemist.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Arcane Trickster Rogues and Eldritch Knight Fighters don't even have access to 5th level spells.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I am absolutely not defending this as intuitive, but the pattern is:

Char level 1 = Spell level 1
Every odd char level = Spell level +1
Char level 3 = Spell level 2
Char level 5 = Spell level 3
Char level 7 = Spell level 4
Char level 9 = Spell level 5
Char level 11 = Spell level 6
Char level 13 = Spell level 7
Char level 15 = Spell level 8
Char level 17 = Spell level 9

What makes this bit of information useless is that it tells you nothing about how many spell slots you should have ... but it used to: in older D&D's every even character level meant getting one more spell slot for all the spell levels you already had, so:

Char level 1 = one L1 slot
Char level 2 = two L1 slots
Char level 3 = two L1 slots, one L2 slot
Char level 4 = three L1 slots, two L2 slots
Char level 5 = three L1 slots, two L2 slots, one L3 slot

And so on. 3e hosed up the pattern because of bonus spell slots from ability scores, and 5e hosed up the pattern because of limits on low-level slots.

Serf posted:

what is a party

CJ posted:

So i just found out that divine smite dice rolls get doubled as well on a crit. Is a paladin's gimmick in fights to fish for crits then unload a ridiculous amount of damage when you get one? If so how can i get more crits?

Admiral Joeslop posted:

What's the best way, mechanically, to represent this Wizard:

Obviously, Strength has to be just as high as Intelligence. Is two levels of Fighter enough? That gives full spellcasting levels but removes one ASI.

This is for a hypothetical adventure in the future so the actual level of play is unknown, I'm just looking for a general progression.

Splicer posted:

Mounted Combatant should let you ride a horse just, like, where ever.

MonsterEnvy posted:

I think 4e is fine as a game. The D&D title just caused it some issues. It was simply too different from the versions of the game that came before it.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Lukewarm Take: 5e would be indistinguishable from a mid-2000s d20 OGL retroclone sitting between True20 and Arcana Unearthed if it didn't have the D&D name behind it.

Fans posted:

People who insist game mechanics must be in universe consistent are also the ones who try to work out in character that hit points exist and gently caress those people.

The Slack Lagoon posted:

For Rogue sneak attack, it is advantage on attack OR having an ally in a flanking position to trigger sneak?

The Slack Lagoon posted:

As a follow-up, ranged sneak attack - even if not hidden /advantage if Target is adjacent to one of your allies it triggers?

Rigged Death Trap posted:

The various charm spells in 5e are some of the most infuriating poo poo ever and invariably lead to varied debates on what is 'reasonable'.

Why they picked enchantments in particular to be vague escapes me.

Natural 20 posted:

I wish the fluff around Hexblade was better.

"A magic sword speaks to you from beyond time and gives you the power of swords" isn't something I really dig.

AlphaDog posted:

In both my groups, you get ASI + feat, not one or the other.

In one group, you don't get a +1stat from the feats that give you that, instead you can talk about some additional benefit with the DM. It's never come up for me, and I haven't noticed it come up for anyone else either.

In the other group, the DM said "OK, if anyone notices something that's poo poo because someone can get their ASI and a feat's +1 stat, let me know and we'll revisit it, until then just get both". Nobody's complained yet.

AlphaDog posted:

I want a D&D where you start off by choosing Fighter, Cleric, Rogue, or Magic-User. Those go to 5th level or so, then everything else is a multiclass choice that you can pick at some point after 2nd level.

gradenko_2000 posted:

EDIT: Mind you, this doesn't really fix deep-seated issues like caster supremacy, but at that point you're better off playing another game than throwing in another page+ of rules.

bewilderment posted:

I think Shadow Monk is actually the best monk archetype in the PHB since the 'core' of monk is already pretty good in combat and Shadow monk gets a very good amount of utility outside of it, while Open Hand is all about the combat.

Conspiratiorist posted:

This is a perfectly valid position. Even if situational, some spellcasting is superior to no spellcasting.

Dragonatrix posted:

So, uh, weird question here but I'm writing a few short homebrew Battlemaster manoeuvres since there's some obvious gaps and all. Some of 'em are definitely pretty dang strong and so need level gating, but I was just curious what the general thoughts are on using the Superiority Die to determine not-so-much added damage or anything immediate but rather determining the duration of effects. Like, something as simple as hitting a dude really hard to give disadvantage on attacks for a couple rounds or whatever. Or maybe half the roll. or something.

Ferrinus posted:

He's right. Between the warlock, sorcerer, and bard, there's not really any narrative left to explain how and why a wizard casts magic.

Krinkle posted:

Wild magic sorc has a one in fifty chance of wiping their self and everyone within 15 feet every single time they cast a spell.

Have fun

Conspiratiorist posted:

This makes Half-Elves the best race and Humans the worst.

Jack the Lad posted:

Meanwhile, Green-Flame Blade

rumble in the bunghole posted:

The class should give the stat bonus.

Kaysette posted:

I love when people think Friends is a powerful permanent charm spell and not the simple minute long cantrip with consequences that are clearly described in the spell description. I guess many spell names like Fireball are more literal but maybe he should switch to a fighter if he doesn’t want to learn what spells do.

He also just sounds like a turd in general but

DalaranJ posted:

The biggest card game kickstarter of all time was exploding kittens, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t due to the quality of the game design.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

wow I guess vaguebooking is even lamer when the people being complained about are internet randos and not people you know

gradenko_2000 posted:

Subjunctive posted:

Yeah, this is in my queue, but I’m not sure how tied it is to the Labyrinth Lord stuff.

Elysiume posted:

How do people feel about Friends? I need another cantrip for my wizard, and while spammable charm is nice, the downside is incredibly bad. Currently have Fire Bolt, Mage Hand, Minor Illusion, Prestidigitation, and Thaumaturgy as a tiefling illusion wizard.

e: 18 int, 16 cha if that would affect suggestions. I'm starting at level 6, so I'll probably have 20 int, 16 cha unless I decide something is more enticing than a casting stat ASI.