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Upright eagles with humanoid arms and wings moved to their backs.

These things.

I love that they removed the Flight invocation from Warlocks and harped in 4th edition that flight was a high level ability that was handed out too soon in 3rd, then in the very first expansion for 5th gave us a race with a flight speed from level one.

So 5E is here and all and we know its going to be here for at least a little while. My question right now is whether or not anyone has any idea what they 'could' possibly do wit expansion material for this game? 5E is pretty empty under the hood so what could the writers possibly add to the game wi...

Continuing to examine an optimized 5E Necromancer I’ve found a few more interesting things. In the thread about the 5E Pit Fiend Gnomeworks said this: I would be curious to see if it is possible to build something that could solo this thing at a stupidly low level, comparatively. Maybe the level 6 ...

Jacks are basically "As much Glaive or Nano as you want to be, a level or two after the Glaive or Nano does the thing." I've only been through the rules once, and it was a while ago, but I don't recall seeing anything that Glaives or Nanos can do that Jacks can't eventually also do. There'...

aaaaaaand Wizards just fired Chris Simms and Jennifer Wilkes

where the replies aren't "ROLEplay not ROLLplay dirty min-maxer," even when you're in a forum section hypothetically dedicated to character optimization and help.

You can take the Sentinel feat to acquire AoO when a hostile enters your threatened range. It also interrupt s movement if you succeed on your attack. Polearm Master allows you to provoke an AoO when a creature enters your threatened range while wielding a Halberd, Glaive, or Quarterstaff, which mak...

I'm not dead set on the roleplay except I want to say "check your privilige" whenever I can. I did a quick skim of the 5e rulebook, and everything seems kind of padded sumo. Is my best action really just to hire a dozen level 1 archers to kill the level 20 dragon? Edit: equality by force....

I really like the idea of anybody who cares to learn it being able to rock out Ritual magic (like in Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series). Also like the alchemy in the Witcher stories/games. Seems like making those things available to mundanes would be very useful. Fighter wouldn't be so bad if he cou...

Asymmetric Threat is like many other Frank projects -- it's got an incredibly ambitious design proposal which demands pioneering multiple never-before-seen types of mechanics. It basically can't crib anything from anywhere else in the industry and would really require a dedicated team to put togeth...

That's actually an interesting idea, Hogarth, because then you could sort of help out the mundanes by giving them more class points for buying gear-powers.

I do like the way 5e treated Mystic Adepts; the costs need tweaking a bit, but they're actually functional as characters in 5th.

Of course, without tweaking the costs, they're the "I win at Everything" button, but I'm sure there's a happy medium to be found.

You can basically win the game if you get access to Thaumaturgy, Dominate, and Presence.

Can't clerics get Eldritch blast on their list? Eh, if not I'm sure they've got another good candidate. In other news, Trapdoot Technologies finally got their Kickstarter launched. They want -half a million dollars- (well, 435k), and are in fact refactoring their product to support (you guessed it!)...

yeah Potent Spellcasting to add +Wis to all your cantrips is actually pretty slick if you're interested in having any blasting at all. Poach Eldritch Blast or one of the other multiple die roll cantrips and you're adding +15 damage per round.

Ugh, their dribbling bullshit updates are seriously off-putting to me. Last thursday's indicates they're going to do a kickstarter or some other kind of crowd-funding to finish their product . :wtf: From their last update: "Carefully, he draws his finger across the map connecting dozens of vil...

Ugh, their dribbling bullshit updates are seriously off-putting to me. Last thursday's indicates they're going to do a kickstarter or some other kind of crowd-funding to finish their product. Which could have been boiled down to a sentence or two. Likewise their first update - could have been conden...

I think you're more likely to see them explain the process by which they "find new magical tools" i.e. go to support a different ruleset. (where the magical tools referenced in their blog post is synonymous with the license/rules for 5e) How hilarious would it be if Pathfinder said 'yeah, ...

I'm sorry, I should have said Tyranny of Dragons, not Path of Dragons. I fucked that one up. Here are some reviews for Hoard of the Dragon Queen: http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/16/16162.phtml Thanks, that review was just what I was looking for. Also contains a lot of advice for how to write you...

Mearls actually went through and answered a bunch of my questions, although largely with "Sorry, nothing to announce" [–]Forumferret 6 points 2 days ago Does 5E D&D have any promotional media lined up for it such as movies, games, television shows, etc.? Your exclusivity contract with ...

The Passive results always being in effect is a hell of a house rule. It completely changes the way the skill system works if they had actually intended that be the case. Every skill check ever would be Roll, then take 10 - compare both results to DC, choose the one you want.

I'm catching up on the AMA right now, look for me posting as /u/forumferret I'll be dropping each one as it's own post. Edit: Dropping tidbits here as I find them interesting: ademonicspoon 11 points 2 hours ago You've mentioned that you were going to stay away from the splatbook-a-month model of 3....

The TGD comes up with a list of hard-hitting questions and we have people from this board each ask him one. It's an interesting idea, but I don't believe for a minute that the questions won't be screened. Ostensibly to very reasonably keep out questions about dickbutt, but also just happening to fi...

Damn, I'm starting to think official D&D character builders are cursed or something. Today, Trapdoor Technologies the guys behind the official digital companion for 5th Edition and Wizards of the Coast announced they were dissolving official ties, and that the Dungeonscape "Beta" will ...