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The last Darksun campaign I played in my PC (Halfling) and another PC (Thri-keen) spent most of the campaign debating in character whether elves or humans tasted better. The thri-keen preferred Elves, I preferred humans, but neither of us were picky. We were both willing to eat whomever we...

You can but you are giving up a better feat or an ASI.

So I am playing my first Aasimar and man I have been impressed with this Species. Resistance to Radiant and Necrotic, the Necrotic comes up quite often, add the significant damage boost I get for a combat from Celestial Revalation with options for even more damage, a 1 round Frighten control...

It is an origin feat. In terms of PHB feats it is competing with probably Lucky and Alarm for the best origin feats for any non-caster Rogue. If you are using HOF or Asterion's Hunger there are some others to consider too, but I think skilled is a pretty solid feat and one of the better...

IME this is highly dependent on the DM and the campaign. If you are guaranteed to get heavy magic weapons that keep pace with the other magic weapons in the campaign that is probably true, but I think that sort of campaign is relatively uncommon. I have played multiple 1-20 campaigns using the...

I think the difference is all of your ancestors are human. In my mind there is a fundamental difference between ethnic groups and species groups. IMO our IRL experiences are similar to a D&D character having a mix of Drow and High Elf ancestors, or having a human mother who is a native of...

They are common, but they are also usually easy and failing them is rarely a big deal. You stop concentrating on a spell, often it was nearing its end anyway or the fight is near over and when it is not near over you can usually just cast the spell again on your turn. There are times when...

I don't particularly like a non-magic thief. If I were going to do it I would go high Intelligence and get Truestrike on a Species or Origin Feat. Without that Thief is going to be heavily reliant on magic items like Wands and in late play Scrolls in combat. Truestrike really amps your sneak...

I agree 100%. I think people put way too much value in Concentration. A failed Wisdom save will usually cost you concentration AND put you in a hurt locker and take away your actions (or worse). When I am playing a multiclass character, if one of the classes is Wizard, Druid, Cleric...

All Wizards can be good controllers. As far as Wizards go, Bladesingers are average IMO, with several other subclasses being substantially better. The concentration buff is nice, but not as nice as what many other Wizards get IME. OTOH Bladesingers are among the best martials in the game from...

Wand of Fear is what I would go with.

They are not the only familiar with at will abilities. A Quasit has Scare, a Sprite has Heartsight, Imp, Sprite and Quasit all have Invisibility, Raven has mimicry and Octopus has Ink cloud. None of these involve an attack roll and all of them except Scare and Ink Cloud are at will. Although...

Yeah that would be a pretty big nerf to something that is not very powerful to start with, and no other monster attack works like that with a save in the 2024 rules AFAIK. An unarmed strike is a melee attack, but it is a special case with its own verbiage specific to it and states it is a...

So would you make it an attack and let players take the action cost and put enemies to sleep without a save or would you keep it a save effect but make them "pay" for it in play with a PC action like it was an attack?

Not while sleeping according to that DM I guess.

The 2024 version of sleep is completely different. It is much less effective at low levels but is still effective against high level enemies. It has a save now and it is concentration. I really miss the old one TBH. The old sleep had a niche use at high level too. When an enemy was nearing...

This will never survive a playtest IMO. IME players really hate the whole interrupted casting. It is ok to give players abilities to do this to NPCs but not PCs. To make this acceptable from a risk-reward point of view you would also need spells to be a lot more powerful (like they were when...

I have seen a lot of them ..... but I think all of them were played by me :p

The 2024 Monster Manual clearly identifies a specific "Attack Notation" and a "Saving Throw Effect Notation" which designate different types of actions defined in the beginning of the MM. The attack notation includes the option for other effects. They really cleaned up the difference for...

One thing I have seen when people talk about DPR is they don't consider damage versatility. A lot of enemies have damage resistance of some sort, and some have vulnerability or regeneration if not hti with something. Being able to change or choose a specific damage type can really drive up the...