Recent content by NotAYakk

You become flanked if you end your turn with enemies on both sides of you (surrounded). You remain flanked until you are no longer surrounded. While flanked, all attacks on you are at advantage. Result: The advantage isn't free. Lots of incentive to move. Even to take OAs to avoid being...

The answer is simple: when you grapple and drag them, the DM determines where the enemy goes. As the grappler, you don't have any special control over where they go. You can drag/carry them along, but you don't have any more say than that. Controlling where they are down to the square is...

Yes, you can write and invent rules that break 2024. This doesn't tell you much about 5e rules. There is no rule saying a dog can't play basketball either. In practice you'll get someone cheese gratering a foe. And the DM who hasn't seen it before will read up on the ambiguity and say "it...

"Similar"? I showed it was significantly less damage than 2014 XBE build. So it is less OP than 2014. Which answers the question "no, 2024 PHB is not the most OP of all time". And I also demonstrated that it isn't significantly outdamaging a really obvious "I am a fighter and I carry a big...

Nick without Two Weapon fighting style is no stat to damage. Hunter's mark requires a bonus action. 4/day. Monk 5 gives you d8 monk damage. First turn. HM (bonus action) Action (2 attacks 1 nick) for 1d8+4+1d8+4+1d8+3d6 (32) Second turn. Action (2 attacks 1 nick) same as above. (32) Bonus...

There is a 30:1 ratio of "this is OP" to actually saying what the OP thing is in this thread at this point.

The variant I rolled up was 3e style gestalt. Like, species was a class. Elves would learn elvish magic along side whatever else they adventured as. I then over complicated it. You had background/species, subclass and class. Every 4 levels you got 4 class levels, 2 subclass levels, and 1...

When I try to do this, I run into "ok what about humans" issue. So my slight alteration is beefier Backgrounds that are sometimes species-specific. Maybe even multiple Background "units". This gives room for humans to join in on this without them being "you get generic feats" style...

Make it go off once per turn in an AOE. Ie, on your first attack, you also attack everyone with a melee spell attack. This makes it stronger for spellcasters (at a cost!) in typical use, but not insanely quadratic. How it triggers (first attack, end or start of caster's turn, end or start of...

Harfoots have a lower centre of gravity.

In the "betrayal" scene, Sauron (and the enemy together) had just been cast down. He's at his weakest, they are fleeing. And an elf stabs him with a magical artifact (the crown). This doesn't defeat Sauron - it just wounds him seriously (kills the body Sauron is in, not the spirit), and it...

Sauron is a recently recovered Maiar. Gandalf is a Maiar recently incorporated. I'm loving the "As an angelic being, I don't know how to operate as in an approximation of a mortal body. I don't even know how mortal-like minds work" approach. Imagine downloading a human being into an ant's...

It is great to finally have a prequel story for LotR faithful to JRR's vision, unlike that fan fiction that his son published after his death.

This is what I'd do. The elementals are attacking, and they go after everyone (you choose to) in the Emanation. It is a variation on Spirit Guardians, but attack based. The original version, drop a 5th level Minor Elementals (4d8), then a 5th level Scotching Ray (5 rays @ 2d6) for 125 damage...

Make odd weapon damage dice be maximized. d4 goes from 2.5 to 3.5 (+1) d6 goes from 3.5 to 5 (+1.5) d8 goes from 4.5 to 6.5 (+2) d10 goes from 5.5 to 8 (+2.5) d12 goes from 6.5 to 9.5 (+3) 2d4 goes from 5 to 7 (+2) 2d6 goes from 7 to 10 (+3) Similar dice game, but competes well with duelist.