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2017-10-06, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: bad tactics
I look at the lich and smirk a bit, as I bring myself back to my feet
"What are you smiling about?" it says
"hehe, it looks like you've made... a grave mistake :D"
the bard, actively bleeding out on the ground *ba-dum-tss*
"Ha! Nice try. Telling a bad joke to try to make your opponent drop their guard. Oldest trick in the book. Trust me, I was there."
*barbarian falling, sword in hands, from the top of the castle wall directly above the lich*
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2017-10-06, 11:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Breaking BM: Revised - an updated look at the beast-mounted halfling ranger based on the Revised Ranger: Beast Conclave.
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2017-10-06, 11:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-06, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spell-less Ranger (In fairness, designed by Rodney Thompson, not MM)
Fighter: Scout
Fighter: Monster Slayer
Fighter: Cavalier (multiple versions, I believe!)
That's just what I can recall off the top of my head.
It was just such... a lazy crutch.
I'm glad it's finally gone.
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2017-10-06, 12:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm right there with you. Sup Dice are the Battle Master's thing. I'm glad they stopped handing it out to every new Fighter. It'd be like handing out the Champion's expanded crit range to a Warlock at 1st-level...oh, wait.
DISCLAIMER: I do love the Hexblade as a patron option, as I'm sure everyone's noticed, but that one aspect bothers me a lot. And Hexblade's Curse should totally apply only to melee weapon attacks.
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2017-10-06, 12:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-06, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-06, 12:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-06, 12:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-06, 12:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-06, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-06, 12:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Spiritchaser; 2017-10-06 at 12:41 PM.
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2017-10-06, 12:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-06, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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I have a STR>CHA>CON GWM F1/ hexblade bladelock at my table who loves the versatility. His eldritch blast does not need to be as powerful it could become. Right now it’s not a huge deal as his CHA could be higher, but that’ll change soon. This is a change I need to seriously consider making.
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2017-10-06, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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I am both happy and disappointed.
I like the idea of a gish who knows how to put temporary enchantments on the equipment they use, as distinct from one who juggles between spellcasting and martial stuff.
But that should cover all armors and weapons, not just ammunition. Especially when spellcasting is mostly a ranged business already.
My fear is that the arcane archer, the forge cleric and the artificer will all come close but no cigar.
Edit: Another hope would be a half-psionicist.Last edited by Millstone85; 2017-10-06 at 01:26 PM.
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2017-10-06, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-06, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I don't mind the idea of superiority dice being the Fighter class thing, even though the other PHB subclasses didn't have them, but each of the classes would need different things to do with them, kinda like how fighters, rangers, and paladins all have slightly different versions of Fighting Style.
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2017-10-06, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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I thought there was room for a superiority-dice style rogue that focuses on dirty fighting, with different manoeuvres to blind, hamstring and the like. I had toyed with the idea while building a homebrew Rogue subclass based on the old Yakusa class from 1E, but eventually abandoned it for the same reason the others don't work: I want to steal trip attack and feint and half of the battle master moves. And then it feels too similar.
Part-time DM, part-time player in 5e. I aim to be reasonable.
Homebrews on the stove (5e):
Wizard School: Black Magic
Druid Circle of the Many
Druid Circle of the Silver Moon
Bard College of the Chord
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2017-10-06, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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It is too late for that sort of design, but I wouldn't have minded if the PHB had got a whole chapter on martial maneuvers just like there is one on magic spells, and all martial and/or magic subclasses would have referenced those.
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2017-10-06, 03:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Do we have any idea of the mechanics somewhere?
All I see on the videos are flavor talk and some core notion of how the subclass should work. Like cavalier locking foes.
For the cavalier, for example, I was expecting an active form of tanking, that wasn't dodge. Something like, "raise shields" and you get temp HP for a round. And while you're in that stance you can make some unique reactions and perhaps even increase your threatening area.Spoiler: Current CharactersNicollo Corleone - The Scoundrel Malconvoker
Dante Levasseur - The Crimsom Inquisitor (avatar) and his Lumi cohort, Eveline Dawn now being followed by an old acquaintance, Aurora, the voice of Barachiel.
Minaerva - The Wild Caller from Rokiri Island.
Requiem Macabre Doc
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2017-10-06, 04:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Nah, these releases are basically teaser trailers, they won't release real details because they want people to buy the book that's coming out. But these classes were in UA articles, so you can cross reference the videos with the UA articles to get a sense of it. But no concrete details.
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2017-10-06, 04:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ugghh....
They should have made superiority dice a main component of the Fighter and not a niche of one subclass. What a failed opportunity. I liked the superiority dice on the Scout. Especially because they gave it extra uses for it that the Battlemaster didn't have.
Every class and its little brother gets spell slots. But God forbid you give superiority dice to anything but the Battlemaster
My desire for this book drops further and further. Of the confirmed subclasses so far the only one I actually like is the Forge Cleric. The rest look like left overs.
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2017-10-06, 04:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Some of the links in the OP are now redundant.
The playlist doesn't get updated as soon as the video is released, but it does get updated.
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2017-10-06, 05:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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I agree. I'm glad the cavalier had superiority dice removed, because I feel like they weren't handled in an interesting way. But I think it would have worked if at least Fighters had martial maneuvers as a core class concept, so that each subclass using didn't have to have half it's features dedicated to just added superiority dice to the class.
D&D Next playtest actually had 'Martial Dice' and lists of martial maneuvers by class that were much like spell lists - it seemed like a good way to be similar to 4E's "everyone has special abilities" without making martials and spellcasters play the same. I wish they had kept that for all classes, it would have been great. It also probably would have made the original half-caster Bard work better, Martial Dice could have been combined with their Inspiration Dice for more flexibility.
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2017-10-06, 06:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Consistency of design is definitely not a 5e strong point. My impression is they tried too hard to make it like 3.5e and not like 4e without fully understanding what people did and didn't like about each. Overall, WotC did well with 5e. But it's hard not to get a just a little dismayed thinking about what could have been.
Off topic, but rogues have this even more than fighters do. The base class doesn't add a single consumable feature until level 20.Breaking BM: Revised - an updated look at the beast-mounted halfling ranger based on the Revised Ranger: Beast Conclave.
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2017-10-06, 06:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Eh, the Fighter is good as it is. It seems a lot of people really don't like the Superiority Dice outside of the Battlemaster, for some reasons, though.
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2017-10-06, 07:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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To use it as often as they have for previous UAs, it seemed to me like it was becoming a lazy design crutch. That’s my criticism of it. Battlemaster is fine. I just wish the archetypes they tried the Superiority Dice on got something more unique.
Ah, what could’ve been.
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2017-10-06, 07:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-07, 12:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think that's only because of the way it's handled. That it ended up being Battlemaster-exclusive in the PHB makes it awkward to put to other subclasses while still having room for unique mechanics. Superiority dice eats up a lot of subclass 'budget', so to speak.
I do think the Fighter is good as it is, just that having dice as a core feature would work best for subclasses that used it. I'm fine with current Fighter with just Battlemaster, or a hypothetical Fighter with superiority dice as a core and multiple subclasses using that resource.
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2017-10-07, 07:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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For some reason I thought the Shadow Sorcerer wouldn't make it. A pleasant surprise.
Now looking forward to the Hexblade.