Players looking to make the most powerful Wizard can do well to build the right foundation from level 1. Making the right decisions from the very beginning will lead to the strongest possible character, resulting in a powerful Wizard who can dominate encounters. With that in mind, there are a...
Cleric worn out from using Channel Divinity on those zombies? Fighter about to collapse after using Action Surge? Well, if they sleep for at least 6 hours and relax for an additional 2, they get everything back. A long rest 5e is basically a “reset”; (nearly) every mechanic your ...
These 12 classes can be found in the Player’s Handbook, but they aren’t your only options. TheArtificer 5ecan be found in an optional book, and D&DBeyond features rules for popular third-party classes, such as theDnD Blood Hunter. However, these extra classes are quite complex, so we...
This article is what you have been waiting for. This is the one where I actually put the pieces together and build an encounter the Angry way. Which is the AWESOME way. Together with the last one, this article concludes my obligation to Twitter friend@Clampclontollerwho started this whole ...
I am level 5 with my whole group: Main (Rogue), Shadowheart (Cleric), Gale (Sorc), Lae'zel (Fighter). I want to fight melee with my rogue, because this is my pure understanding of that class. Maybe, I am playing it wrong, but after my initial sneak attack it feels pretty dumb ...
The 3.0DnDrule set was revised to 3.5DnDroughly three years after its launch. The 3.5 rules initially claimed to be backward compatible with 3.0 modules in the same way that One D&D promises compatibility with 5e adventures. As a practical matter, the changes to 3.5 were sweeping enough that...
Welcome to the worldbuilding trap. The Worldbuilding Trap Click the Goblin’s Jar to Leave a Tip There’s two ways to get caught in the worldbuilding trap. The first is to try to build a complex world on par with a published setting because you think that’s the right way to do it....
GamesBeat: What are the six classes going to be? Tudge: There’s no druid right off. You have fighter, cleric, rogue, wizard, ranger, and paladin. We’ll absolutely add other classes later on. It boils down, like in the previous question, to focusing on quality ...
FEATURE of the cleric class and thus affects every single power you could possibly take. Optimizers will be able to figure out ways to work with this by their very nature, but players who aren’t min-maxing or playing for power might find their cleric less capable than they deserve to be...
Except the party’s fighter wouldn’t use it. Seriously. The cleric and the warlock who bought it assumed the fighter would use it. But he didn’t want to. He was a polearm fighter. He had a neat feat to make him a better polearm fighter and he’d built his character around using...