Recent content by Psychman

I hate to ask, but does Magia have a ranged combat cantrip to her name? It might be a handy thing to acquire so that she can avoid falling unconscious for the xth time... I also sense that the bonus action spell rule might have been house-ruled out... Loving the show, by the way. <3

You make some good points about Shillelagh. Perhaps there could be an additional Druid class or archetype feature that enables a specific form of Extra Attack? Kind of like the Warlock's Thirsting Blade but restricted to a Shillelagh-enhanced weapon?

With all the things revised and changed with this approach to 5E, I wonder - why did they not change True Strike and Shillelagh? True Strike is regarded as a terrible spell because it takes an entire action to merely grant advantage on a single attack roll which must be on the next turn, and...

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Another possible solution is Light Cleric, as suggested, but take the feat Ritual Caster (Wizard) as soon as possible. That would enable access to a wide range of Wizard utility spells without them using up those valuable prepared spell choices. As a variant human you could even take the feat...

I read that differently. The target gets disadvantage on checks against the hider in your first statement. The attacker (the hider) gets advantage against the target (the defender) in the second. In both cases the person attacking (from some form of hidden/unseen) is in the better position...

Oh, I realise what is written, but as you say it does make some riders more valuable than others. Look at firebox and E Blast, both the "baseline", their range is strictly better than any others, most of which work on 60 or even 30ft, as well as having riders. It does make me curious as to the...

Maybe the metric should be d8 plus rider effect/aspect? A question for Sage Advice as to how the PHB cantrips fit with the DM design advice, I think. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

I see where you are coming from based on that table, but if you look at all the cantrips, the "half damage on a miss" doesn't seem to appear, maybe due to the fact they are not a limited resource in the way levelled spells are. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Cantrips are the spellcaster's baseline, their equivalent of a weapon. As they also have full spells as the core of their class, it is only fair that a weapon user should edge out a caster with that level of resource. As the Warlock has a much more limited spell resource, they have Eldritch...

Yunru, you're going to need to present your argument about Eldritch Blast and other spells much more thoroughly. There seems to be a disconnect between your understanding of some of the rules, and others, as we are all not seeing an issue of Eldritch Blast being low-power Ed, almost the opposite...

I am puzzled. How do you figure it doesn't do enough damage? With Agonising Blast invocation, it is doing multiple instances of 1d10+CHA per action, sitting alongside the Fighter attack pattern. Flavour variation I would be interested in exploring, alternative damage type, different riders...

Surely the question of Bards will bring in the question of the role communities and the greater setting social structure will play in the game. If characters automatically improve, and require no formal links to the local setting then the social abilities of a bard are of limited value. If the...

I appreciate this is the D&D 5th Edition forum, but have you seen this? http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/103948/Yggdrasill-Core-Rulebook Their sales pitch is: "Yggdrasill is a game of exciting adventure in a detailed and fascinating setting from the team behind Qin: The Warring States...

Have you been to the Stag & Hounds on Old Market on a monday? There are at least 2 games going on there on a weekly basis, as well as other occasional more short-lived games. These are not necessarily D&D, however. This facebook group is possibly worth making use of, as well as asking in...