Recent content by Cap'n Kobold

You . . . may wish to read up on the 5e24 Bladesong ability. It is not the same as the 2014 version. For most Bladesingers, on most days, you will have 4-6 uses of Bladesong.

Bladesong AC boost stacks with everything you have there. So it will push your AC to 23. This matches as a baseline what a similarly-equipped fighter would be on, if the fighter focused on defence rather than damage by using a shield. Combined with Shield and Absorb Elements, this probably...

4-6 times per day covers the majority of the adventuring most groups actually do.

As you say, D&D has a long tradition of sci-fi elements in it, but is there any particular sci-fi media that your peers are fans of? Television, films, other games etc? Has something caught on in your peer group that might have caused the additional interest?

Not all. Silvery barbs for example, are not available for Adventurer's League.

I think a big decision needs to be made when implementing psionics: Just how immiscible is it with magic? - Although this doesn't necessarily dictate whether Psions are spellcasters or not. Can an astral Construct or ongoing psionic effect be dispelled with Dispel Magic? Could it be picked up...

While I think that Swordmage would be a good additional class, I'm not sure that "Arcane half-caster" would be a good way of doing so. There are plenty of classes and subclasses that get both spells and extra attack and just put up a buff or two before attacking purely with their weapon...

Ideally, what I would like to see is a well-implemented Warblade, as per Bo9S. Done right, that could cover the Warlord class well simply through selection of maneuvers. I'd like an interesting and fun martial class, with a good variety of selectable class features for both in-combat and...

While Wizards still generally get to cast the most spells per day of any long rest caster due to their ritual mechanics . . . . . . I would absolutely support a rebalancing of the class to improve their early levels and reduce their later levels.

Weapon breakage rules, along with other fumble rules generally have the disadvantage of triggering when the character makes an attack with that weapon. - Meaning that the more skilled the warrior, the more chance that they will break their weapon in a minute compared to a complete novice. If I...

I think that picking McDonalds as an example might have derailed the Brand argument, but its not just that Khorvairans know that the Golden Dragon inn will have a reliably similar menu and services wherever it is located. They also know to look for the House Ghallanda seal on any independent...

As PCs level up, the nature of their relationship with the movers and shakers of the setting changes, as they become movers and shakers themselves. Doesn't that seem more logical than high-level adventurers staying stuck as the lackeys of the mayor of a minor village, or whatever else they...

Possibly the visuals. - While most of the weapons covered by D&D longswords could deal piercing damage like a rapier, there is a big conceptual distinction between the smallsword-like weapons popularised by Errol Flynn and Mandy Patinkin, and the broader knightly sword in people's minds...

Regarding Monks, I feel that one of the reasons that the optimisers didn't much like them was that they had very little scope for build optimisation. While a baseline monk might be equivalent to a baseline fighter or paladin, optimised fighters or paladins performed much much better than their...

Its worth noting that if its Elven Chain Mail, the Wizard will need a Strength of 13+ or suffer some penalties.