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War caster would still be a great feat even with just the concentration bonus and spell opportunity attacks.

WotC should have added a rule to 5.5 that a hand holding a focus can always be used to perform somatic components, it would have eliminated so many uninteresting weapon juggling situations. I wonder if such a rule was ever on the table during the 5.5 development process, or if nobody at WotC...

My prediction: The main product of the season will be a book with character options for martial characters. There will be a tie-in adventure set in the Forgotten Realms.

No ass is without context.

If the red box warrior is a woman, I suddenly get a new appreciation of the ass shot on the cover ;)

But casting a fireball involves speaking out a magical incantation and waving around a piece of batshit, it's not instant like pulling the trigger on a rifle.

I'm super-excited about Solasta 2, but I'm going to stay away from the early access. I burned out on BG3 playing the first chapter in EA, and when the full game came out it was hard to get back in. Not making the same mistake twice!

I don't think 6e will be based on current trends, I suspect it will only happen when trends have moved on to the point where 5.5 is outdated.

Very well actually. Combat is a lot more tense when a few bad rolls can end with dead PCs, everyone plays carefully and tactically to minimize the impact of bad luck. We've had 1 death so far in 6 or so sessions.

No death saves, characters die when they hit 0 HP. Maybe not a popular house rule per se, but it's how we've been running the latest campaign :D

That confusion would always have been there, but now that we have an official term for the new rules it's simple for 3rd party producers to explicitly state if their product is compatible with 5.5 or not. Confusion resolved!

Guns are less useful when you need to shoot someone 10 times to kill them, and you only have time to shoot them twice before they run up close to you and start bashing you with a sword in a way that makes it hard for you to shoot them again.

It was probably meant to be silly in an entertaining way rather than in a cringeworthy way. So add 1 to the tally of WotC fails!

I wonder if this book will have rules that actually make spellcasters levitate when they cast spells ;)

Objectively, those folks were "right" the entire time. 5.5 was never just 5E. This move by WotC just brings the nomenclature in line with reality. It doesn't really matter if it's called "5.5" or "5e2024" or "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition" (ok, that last one might cause some...