Recent content by Horwath

if they wanted to do that, they should have given rangers something to burn their spell slots like paladins smite. IE: +2d6 elemental damage on a hit per spell level burned.

great, but you should eliminate all options that waste +1/+2 increase on a stat lower than 13. As an advice at least.

hmm: Beast strike: use your spell attack modifier, damage bonus on attack: Wis mod. so much for being more martial... guess it's Magic initiate: Druid and Shillelagh or bust with this subclass also.

Hunter could have been a subclass for all HM BS that is tacked on base class. Bonus spells for Hunter 1. Hunter's mark, DOH! 2. See invisibility 3. clairvoyance 4. Dimension door 5. Hold monster

reach could also be more granular then. with reach 1(normal) reach 2 reach 3(10ft) reach 2 could be for most 2Handed melee weapons and longer 1Handed reach 3 would be for polearms. reach 4 for pike.

One solution to make stat rolling mean less is: use abilities just for ABILITY checks, rest uses only proficiency bonus: Attack: 2×prof bonus, or only prof bonus if non proficient AC:10+prof bonus(if proficient with armor)+ AC bonus(if any) Damage: base damage+prof bonus(if proficient with...

when you need multiple choices in a dungeon:

you can have all even stats with 27 point buy. 14,14,14,10,10,10 is 28pts if you count on background +2/-1 or +1/+1/+1 you can have: 14+2, 13+1,14, 12,10,10 15+1,15+1,15+1,8,8,8 13+1,13+1,13+1,12,12,12 or one odd score intentional for 4th level bump to 18 15+2,14,13+1, 10,10,10 you need 3...

you can always limit it that it cannot raise d20 value over 20 IE; you rolled 17, but still failed, you add only +3 as +5 would put your d20 value over 20. or simple white down your "take 20" score, as another passive value. No matter the amount of modifiers, you cannot get more than that...

that is somewhat true, that is why higher scores are more expensive in point buy. if you take my table, you could have 16,14,14,14,14,14 or 18,18,16,10,6,6 it's 86 vs 74 sum total of scores or +13 vs +7 total modifier I don't know if that is worth it. you have 2 gaping holes in saving throws...

we use this variant point buy: 6: -1pt 8: 0pts 10: 1pt 12: 2pts 14: 3pts 16: 5pts 18: 8pts pool: 20pts no bonuses from species/background who wants to roll, it's (4d3D1)×2 gives 6-18 spread, no odd stats, average pt value is 20,1.

While I am for bigger point buy pool and option to buy 18, but then without speciec/background bonuses, I am really opposed to dumping stats for min maxing. I even try to avoid "8" in pointbuy for all characters, ok maybe 8 charisma for druids/barbarians. 8 in any other score will "thematically"...

agree with 99% but, If I never see a reroll mechanic it will be too soon and I while I still do like advantage, it's so common now that I start to hate it also. might be best to return to fixed +/-X modifiers, capped at 5. negative or positive. starting to remove all re-rolls for +/- 5 to the...

Rolling stats is on average 31,3 pts. point buy is 27pts standard array is 27pts. so yes, pointbuy is underpowered. in general, I prefer increased point buy with not ASIs from race, background or feats. or standard array that is increased, depending on power level you want to have in game. IE...