Recent content by Horwath

no there is not power creep in buffing weak options, for simple reason, almost no one played weak options when stronger appeared or they house ruled weak ones to be inline with good ones. except twilight cleric, that gets powered down or banned. It's 12 out of 10. only power creep is when you...

thematically, I would go with ranger/monster hunter. mechanically, I would go with warlock as a basis to make the class, witcher skills are like invocation "bonus feats", signs are like warlocks spell slots, and Schools can just be subclasses.

I completely agree that idea of next to no magic items in 5E was stupid from the start, it's even worse as there is no replacement for magic items in terms of gear upgrades(and not waiting 3 levels for a fullplate is no upgrade, especially when someone dex based is already maxed in AC from gear...

then again we come to 3E; linear fighter/quadratic wizard. where spells level basically for free. with spell points it would be even finer scaling. I do not mind cantrips as most of the time, using cantrips is waste of an action in combat. Unless you specialize in cantrip usage(warlock).

1 dice for sustain spells 2 dice for AoE spells 3 dice for single target spells +1 extra dice for 3rd, 6th and 9th level upcast. some spells could get less if rider is very good, IE magic missile would get 2 dice per level. but 3 dice at 3rd, 6th and 9th level.

too random, d6 is fine. I would even say d4, but I hate to "roll" those caltrops. more d6's for fireball is always solution.

with the amount of usages of Bladesong, they could just make it passive and merge it into war and song training. or the cost of 1 Bonus action per combat is that important. just make AC: 10+dex+int that both saves on mage armor and prohibits it's stacking on Int bonus. rest of Bladesong works...

I like the idea of mastery but not execution, and it still does not make weapon any unique that the used to be and now we even have less diversity between weapons. every rogue now is scimitar+short sword. just treat masteries as BM at-will maneuvers. we can even limit what mastery goes where...

I would replace the skill+tool, or give option; darkvision or skill+tool.

This is cool take on the warforged. another one that I like is that warforged are people. Of various species. They are made with their consent or not into warforged. that is why I like them as a template, maybe even as (overpowered) Origin feat. why would someone do this? Maybe they want more...

EA is not over powered, but it might be the strongest racial feat of 5E, problem is that others are mostly trash tier that no one ever takes.

it could be open or it could be per weapon. I.E: If I want only to use shortswords for 2WF and I have 2 mastery slots(as rogue) I could learn, Vex(shortsword) and Nick(Shortsword). then I can use Vex on my main hand attack and Nick on off hand attack, or if there is a round where my Bonus...

masteries were a great idea that was executed really bad. As for longsword and sap, yeah, sap is poor wording choice, but it represents defensive quality of a longsword with the crossguard and hand guards, maybe. and maybe that should have been on reach weapons as they give even more defensive...

there is enough if they are just descriptive with custom bonuses to pick from. if they are fixed, enough will be when we get every possible combination of Origin feat, 2 skills and 3 attributes. right now, about 33k worth of backgrounds.

I would say that people want "racial features" that they can utilize in their character concept. elven weapon proficiency means nothing to a martial, just sucking up "build points" or mage has no usage on half orcs critical damage bonus with weapons. on the other hand, everyone likes wood...