It is vastly too restrictive. Even the video gamws that inspire it let you use the teleport attack to get up close when you aren't, and it is almost comically behind other characters with teleportation in levels a which you can do a given thing like teleporting after being hit.
I appreciate...
Youre right and you should say it.
Yep.
Agreed.
Nice.
Short range teleporting is nbd. I would say, assuming a new class ratger than a rogue subclass,
Variant Monk, Int rather than Wis, replace step of the wind and unarmored movement with:
Blink Step. You move in and out of the ethereal...
What if there is no wizard or priest class, because we are assuming a world where those type od folks dont go adventuring, they stay in towers and do more important things.
So, you would have:
Warlock: A dark scholar with magical spark of their own, invoking powers to gain magic or channel...
A perfect recipe to keep me so far away that even good reviews will be hard pressed to bring me back, if it ends up with any good reviews.
That trailer made my wife and i roll our eyes and shut it off in favor of literally anything else.
Not at all true. not sure where ypu get the idea that generations younger than Boomers dont live that life.
Ugh. No. I know at least 2 dozen guys who would...do very bad things if anyone ever suggested to them that they were that type of lowlife. only a few of them are what i would call good...
Sure. The balance is tbh not that worth trying to get perfect. Trying to make normal attacks have limited uses doesnt make the game play better.
FOr sure.
Which is why i am so confused by people acting like 30ft BA or movement based teleport is wildly OP.
Yep. And maybe a "portal physics" is...
Nightcrawler never gts exhausted from short range teleports, and we know he was teleporting short range atwill even when he first started out.
The only thing missing then is weapon competence which is inarguably a low level thing in dnd.
Yep.
Personally I dislike it, and I dislike when Brennan does stuff like this.
The swing of the d20 doesn't not need to be the primary driver of drama, and I would go far enough to say that the d20 should be one of the least drivers of drama.
It's a solid but not huge for a rogue upgrade. I will not ever design a class or sublcass feature around whether there is a similar feat benefit. I don't think anyone ever should. They're separate things.
Like...you can get damage reduction from a feat, does that mean subclasses should never...
Yeah, honestly the issue of what comes in at 3 and what comes later is the main argument against using the rogue for the concept. Waiting until 9 just kinda....sucks. I wish they have changed the subclass progression for rogues.
But I think 10ft times half rogue level, rounded up, sneak attack...
Yep, which is why it isn't what I want. Well, that and that it is doing too much and thus has the annoying limitation of darkness to darkness jumping. Even just "a space within 5ft of a shadow" would be workable, since most of the time it would be pretty free but still not completely...