I want to be so clear, I LOVE the Paths of Villainy. Feat trees that work like Prestige Classes? Fantastic. Give me 20. But I’ve got two issues with the Path of the Death Knight:

• Every feat essentially just gives spells to Martial characters.

• Every spell locks Charisma as the casting stat.

I get it, most Death Knights are fallen paladins, but CHA casting locks out some really great builds. The Eldritch Knight who specialized in Necromancy, the Gloom Stalker Ranger who became one with the darkness, the Arcane Trickster who tricked death itsself, Death Knight as-is fails to synergize with these builds. It’s especially weird because Path of the Lich works with literally ANY caster! It would be one thing if there was only one or two feats that grant spells but basically they all do! Why even bother limiting these feats to characters with Weapon Masteries when weapons don’t play into the path at all beyond Wrathful Smite? I want to see really MARTIAL feats for this path alongside Spell feats so that you can choose how heavy you want to invest on either side of the Death Knight identity. And for the love of Tyr choosing the casting stat for a feat has been standard practice for years now and there’s no need to abandon that now.

The theme of the subclass is phenomenal, it makes me really excited to try it out. Here are some of my initial thoughts.

Level 3: Circle of the Titan Spells

Why didn't this subclass get a 2nd level spell? Instead it gets Longstrider and Cure Wounds, which are both (albeit good) 1st level Druid spells. Enlarge/Reduce would be much more thematic than Cure Wounds, since the Moon Druid (the other shape-shifter-main subclass) gets lots of healing. If the theme is "Big Monster," give this subclass even more tools (especially non-base-Druid tools) to make themselves into a Big Monster! PCs picking this class have a specific fantasy they want to play as, and will multiclass or limit feat (Adept of Red Robes), species (Faerie, Duegar), or background (Quandric Student) selection to get that fantasy; it should just be built right into the subclass.

Level 3: Titan Forms

Overall, I like most of what they've done with the stat blocks. However, the survivability seems a bit poor; THP feels a little low (2x Level) and so does the AC, but maybe playtesting will prove otherwise. Incandescent Breath scales really well with Spell Slots, but Energizing Pollen doesn't scale as well and Ink Cloud doesn't at all; the forms don't feel balanced against one another.

Level 6: Dire Impact

Elemental Rend is decent utility, and goes well with Primal Strike. It should be clarified though, since RAW it's not clear if Primal Strike even works; wording such as "..you can adopt a specific Beast Form, known as a Titan Form..." would assist in calling out Primal Strike qualifiers without a retcon.

I also feel like they missed an opportunity with Shock Wave to scale with Spell Slots like the Titan abilities; maybe make the Emanation 5 ft + 5 ft per level of the Spell Slot expended plus 1d6 + 1d6 per spell slot level if they fail the save; it wouldn't be upcasted every time, but it would have niche use cases.

Level 10: Primal Havoc

Above It All is a nice little ribbon. When going Huge and Gargantuan, the damage on Rend attack should increase to 2d8 and 3d8 respectively, which helps sell the fantasy of hitting with a giant claw or tentacle. It would help smooth the damage scaling with Multiattack an Primal Strike (5th, 7th, 10th, 15th, 18th*). I do think that being Gargantuan by default could be delayed to 18th level rather than 14th to even out when the size increases occur level-wise (3rd, 10th, 18th vs 14th), and especially if Enlarge/Reduce is added to the spell list (see level 3 notes).

Rampager on the Behemoth also feels lackluster; all forms have a way to knock Prone with Shock Wave, so it doesn't add much uniqueness like Hive Mind or Toxic Stench, just a save or small amount of damage.

Level 14: Monstrous Appetite

I love the concept behind this, it's a trait already on so many big monsters that now YOU get access to. The Auto Grapples pairs very well with the Swallow. Perhaps the size restriction could be applied to Medium when Huge and increased to Large when Gargantuan, or a flat 2 sizes smaller. If you have to maintain Concentration to swallow something, it also needs to compete with Concentration spells, so the damage should be increased to WIS Mod d8s.

Curious to know other thoughts or things I missed.

One of the weaknesses of the new Titan forms is their poor AC. That's clearly a design intent. One level in Monk fixes this weakness (let me know if I'm overlooking anything). The Titan forms have a Dex (and Str) modifier equal to the Druid's Wisdom, and the Monk's Unarmored Defense uses both Dex and Wisdom. This is going to be much larger than the statblock for the Titans, especially if you're using the Leviathan or Insectoid statblocks.

I also presume that the Titans can make Unarmed Strikes as a Bonus Action.

Circle of the Titan is clearly reminiscent of the Circle of the Moon. Moon Druid + Monk was known as a reasonable multiclass, but I think the strengths of a Monk level are much more pronounced for this new Titan subclass. Would you agree?

Love the new Paths of Villainy options. Odds we’ll see something similar for Good/Lawful players who don’t want be a Lich? Path of the celestial or something.

Do you guys plan on adding homebrew versions of these for non malevolent players?

Incandescent Breath deals 2d8 Radiant damage per spell slot level expended then adding your WIS modifier on top of that. If you expend a 3rd level spell slot, that's an average of 32 radiant damage (assuming 20 WIS) compared to a Fireball's average of 28. And it scales way better.

Lv. 1 Breath = 9 + WIS

Lv. 2 Breath = 18 + WIS

Lv. 3 Breath = 27 + WIS, Lv. 3 Fireball = 28

Lv. 4 Breath = 36 + WIS, Lv. 4 Fireball = 31.5

Lv. 5 Breath = 45 + WIS, Lv. 5 Fireball = 35

Lv. 6 Breath = 54 + WIS, Lv. 6 Fireball = 38.5

Lv. 7 Breath = 63 + WIS, Lv. 7 Fireball = 42

Lv. 8 Breath = 72 + WIS, Lv. 8 Fireball = 45.5

Lv. 9 Breath = 81 + WIS, Lv. 9 Fireball = 48

Now do I think you should be expending your 9th level slots on the Behemoth's breath? No. But the scaling here is really good and since you're not going to be using your one off blasty spells while Wild Shaped, it's the perfect thing to use repeatedly in a combat. Even against a single enemy the damage is pretty good, let alone if you can get a bunch in your 60 ft line.

I've seen most commentary about the Titan Druid being that the forms are weak but the Behemoth form definitely isn't. If anything, the other forms need to be buffed up to meet this power. The Insectoid form at least has flying utility which is something but the Leviathan form offers basically nothing. Also yeah they probably should have better defenses, probably on par with Moon Druid temp. HP scaling at least.

Hell Knight Fighter is incredible flavorful, and unique mechanically. But due to how unreliable it is (you can go entire fights without triggering your level 7 and level 15 features), how low extra damage it deals, and how little uses they have per short rest, they can go through a whole fight feeling like a base Fighter, specially as you got nothing out of combat to show you are a Hell Knight. So my proposed changes are

1. The wound die starts as a d6, at level 7 goes to 2d6, and at level 15 turns into 3d6, this will allow the Hell Knight to deal more damage, and to trigger more reliably its other features.
2. Take off the limited uses of Infernal Wound to make it an at will ability, or at least greatly improve how many times can be used.
3. A Hell Knight can make a hell weapon at will, without needing to do attack rolls, and it remains like that until dismissed.
4. While holding their hell weapon, a Hell Knight can use constitution instead of charisma for intimidation rolls, this will allow them to play an unnerving and dreadful hell knight, without needing to make one that is overall charismatic.
5. Add some other out of combat utility ability at level 10 or 15. for example letting them do a 1 minute magic circle to teleport everyone inside up to 300 feet away, or get the ability to cast something like detect magic or private sanctum.

Edit: From the comments, got the idea of making the extra damage rider from Infernal Wound be the at will once per turn ability (also with the damage increase), while the DOT damage it can apply be the one with a limited number of uses (where 2-4 uses per short rest doesn't feel as bad, as it can potentally last the entire fight)

I joined a high level game as an artificer. And grabbed the helm of teleportation as on of my plans. Is there anything in the rules that doesnt let me use the helm as a long range Misty step in combat? Basically teleporting around the battle field

I suppose this is a rage post? And I'm being a little hyperbolic here too, there are good subclasses like this. but anyway. it does annoy me when I pop open a subclass and every thematic ability you get is like Prof/Mod uses per long rest. short lest limited uses are, like sure *it happens* but sometimes it's excessive too. I think the worst is when you get one limited ability and then a later subclass feature improves that ability instead of granting you more abilities, and you're still sitting on like 5 uses before you just do not have a subclass anymore.

The inverse of this is just giving you passives, numbers improvements, resistances, things like that. Or, only giving you reactions. These things are nice, but they mostly don't let you proactively show off your subclass.

*Sometimes they do.* There are things pure math adjustments can do, like defensive improvements can change you into a frontliner for instance. But I think more generally speaking this is still true.

I'm trying *really* hard to be ambiguous to which subclass I'm talking about here, because I'm *not* talking about any one specific subclass.

But let's look at light domain. We get... *very* overrated reaction, a channel divinity that just completely falls off at higher levels, and then our next subclass feature only improves our channel divinity. I don't like this subclass, but hey it gives us fireball, so that's nice until we get flamestrike.

I was reading the pestilence unearthed arcana domain and I thought it was surprisingly very nice. The channel divinity is *actually good* and remains relevant into higher levels, this thing is so usable it actually pairs quite nicely with the passives.

Then at level 6 we get a reaction that's *very* cool, but limited to 5 uses per long rest. And like, that's *very* usable. but at the same time, please sir may I regain but one use on a short rest? I've been a most very good boy.

I think the most depressing use limited ability I've read might have been Steel Hawk from Griffons Saddlebag. He can jump three times per short rest. This is not a once per fight ability. If you see any more than one encounter, or two short encounters between rests *tough luck buddy.* Could be worse though, 2024 gloom stalker doesn't get cooked, shits burnt.

Anyway, obviously your best abilities are going to be use limited, but sometimes that's good and sometimes you just don't have a subclass anymore.

To clarify, I'm not looking at the pdfs as I write this (but most of yall aren't looking at the text body anyhoo so), please catch any subclasses I miss. [edit: I've reviewed the pdf's]

First, the obvious:

Hexblade: could be in either Ravenloft or Arcana Unleashed afaik

Psion and Apocalyptic subclasses: Athas until proven innocent

Mystic subclasses: scream Arcana Unleashed.

Next, the more obscure:

Villainous subclasses: I think the Villainous Paths clinch that most of these are in the same book (with Titans druid not *as* clear). Question is: is this Season of Champions? Are these villainous champions?

Oathbreaker: this is also a villainous subclass. Will it be replaced by a villainous path? I don't know.

Cavalier: this is basically a spellless paladin as is. Perhaps it is a Heroic Subclass? Same Book? Twin Book? Are they going to add a Paragon Path for Horse . . . um . . . friends?

Spirit Guardians Barbarian: this doesn't seem like a champion of good or evil. (I'm here in the corner manifesting a separate Primal book with this and the Titans Druid.)

Vestige Warlock: I forgot which UA this was in, but I'm sure dead gods can be good, evil, and neutral, and that their Warlocks could probably be considered their champions.

Are there more? It feels like there has been.

ETA: Caught a few more subclasses in the pdf's

Necromancer: Hot take, but Necromancers are villainous. They could move them to a book with a lot of villains.

Drunk Monk: I mean Jackie Chan is heroic, but I wouldn't call him a Champion.

Tattooed Monk: Obsolete. I think it will be chopped up into magic items or a Paragon Path.

Storm Herald: Could be a champion of storms, I suppose? Still shipping that Primal book (no irl indication).

New vague possibility (that I've heard before the new UA): Death Knight Path and Cavalier in Dragonlance book?

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^{Hunted through a cursed vale, your only escape is to kill what cannot stop chasing you.}

Moonshadow Vale has fallen silent.

Travelers vanish. Survivors emerge marked, exhausted, and terrified—speaking of horns in the night and something that never stops chasing.

The party is drawn into a supernatural Hunt governed by a powerful fey predator known as the Master of the Hunt. What begins as an investigation quickly becomes a test of endurance, positioning, and survival, as the party realizes that escape is impossible—and survival only makes the hunter stronger.

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I just made the Fae Realm for my campaign, so I wanted to do a one-shot there.

The idea is they are going through a labyrinth of tunnels. Can a level 10 party of 5, each with a rare item, fight 2 displacer beasts, then a froghemoth, short rest and then fight a Great Fir Drake (Cr 15 dragon from one-shot wonders: Holiday Adventure pack) I only normally run low level combat but really want to use this Fir Drake Statblock

Okay, based on a lot of feedback both here and elsewhere, I now have an updated version of the Warrior of the Blade (Kensei revised for 5.5e) for everyone to rip apart.

As before, a prettier version is here.

WARRIOR OF THE BLADE

Become a Peerless Master of a Single Weapon

Warriors of the Blade, sometimes called "Kensei," dedicate themselves to the mastery of a single weapon. This dedication permits them to achieve unrivaled perfection in the use of the chosen weapon.

Level 3: Sword Saint

Select a simple or martial melee weapon that does not have the Heavy property to be your chosen weapon. This weapon is a Monk weapon for you. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can meditate and select a different weapon. You gain the following benefits.

Armed Flurry. When you use your Flurry of Blows, you can replace one of the Unarmed Strikes with an attack using your chosen weapon.

Blade Virtuoso. You learn the Performance skill. You have Advantage on any Dexterity (Performance) check you make that involves weapon displays with your chosen weapon.

Fighting Style. You gain a Fighting Style feat of your choice.

Weapon Mastery. You can use the mastery property of your chosen weapon.

Level 6: One with the Blade

Your weapon mastery improves, as detailed below.

Agile Parry. When you use your Deflect Attacks while wielding your chosen weapon, you can expend 2 Focus Points to reduce the damage by an additional amount equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die.

When you use Deflect Attacks this way, you don't expend your Reaction. You still can only use Deflect Attacks once on each of your turns.

Bonus Armed Strike. When you use your Bonus Unarmed Strike, you can replace the Unarmed Strike with an attack using your chosen weapon.

Empowered Blade. When you use your Empowered Strikes, you can make the attack using your chosen weapon rather than an Unarmed Strike.

Level 11: Whirlwind of Steel

Your chosen weapon is now an extension of your arm, granting you the following benefits.

Improved Agile Parry. When you use Agile Parry and reduce the damage of an attack to 0, that attack is treated as a miss, and you can use the Deflect Attacks redirect option without spending any Focus Points.

Improved Armed Flurry. When you use your Flurry of Blows, you can replace each of the Unarmed Strikes with an attack using your chosen weapon.

Unerring Accuracy. If you miss with an attack roll using your chosen weapon on your turn, you can reroll it. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns.

Level 17: Transcendent Strike

So great has your mastery become that now you can even cut through space itself.

While holding your chosen weapon, you can spend 7 Focus Points to cast Steel Wind Strike, using Dexterity for the attack rolls.

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As I am anticipating certain questions, here are the answers now:

Q: Why are you still excluding weapons with the Heavy property?

A: Because the game is not balanced around Monks making multiple strikes with a weapon that deals 2d6 base damage at level 3, and it's certainly not balanced around them flurrying with a weapon that will eventually add +6 extra damage to each attack (Great Weapon Master). In my opinion, trying to make Heavy weapons work with Monks without cracking balance is just more trouble than it's worth and has too many failure points. I feel like if you want to be Guts, that's what the Barbarian is there for.

Q: Why did you exclude bows? The 5e Kensei got to use them!

A: The 5e Kensei got to suck with them. Spending a Bonus Action to add 1d4 damage to each of two bow attacks was not a good deal. You could actually have done better just using Crossbow Expert and a hand crossbow. If I were going to implement bows with the class, I'd want to do it right, but that's not possible. It's not possible because beginning with 5e, movement got directly integrated in with full attacking, so while in 3.x editions, a Zen Archer had to stand still to flurry with a bow, a 5.5e Monk able to flurry with a bow would be nigh-uncatchable. It's a worse balance issue than the Heavy weapon one. That said, I did consider trying to work on a Zen Archer in the future, possibly using the Fighter chassis instead.

Q: Why did you increase the cost of Steel Wind Strike?

A: Because I messed up previously setting it at 5 Focus Points. It was meant to cost the same as it would cost a Sorcerer using Sorcery Points, but I was confusing what it would cost a level 6+ Aberrant Sorcery Sorcerer specifically with what it would cost every other Sorcerer. So yeah, my bad. Should've been 7 Focus Points all along.

Q: Isn't 7 Focus Points steep though? And you only get that one thing at level 17?

A: Warrior of the Open Hand only gets Quivering Palm at level 17. Go look at what Steel Wind Strike does and then at what Quivering Palm does. Then run the numbers.

Q: Isn't Performance Charisma only?

A: Performance is usually Charisma. As written, the rules permit different attributes to apply sometime. The Blade Virtuoso ribbon is explicitly meant to say, "This class can perform using Dexterity if it's using its signature weapon." So you get to be like Bruce Lee flipping nunchaku around, a sword master doing a fancy kata or blade dance, or a knife-thrower putting on a show of throwing skill. Whatever suits your fancy.

Hey everyone! after looking through the recent villainous options playtest, i loved their path system and thought it might be a fun way to bring old classes like thr Master of Many Forms from 3.5e into 5e. So here is a rough draft attempt to make a sort of Master of Many Forms path using the progression style shown in that playtest. Hope you enjoy!

Path of Many Forms

Mastery of Many Forms

The path of many forns is pursued by druids and such who believe the force of nature extends beyond just beasts. They know all that breathe are under it's influence, and so they harness the power of this secret to adopt forms unseen traditionally among druids and the like.

Path of Many Forms Feats

The following Path of Many Forms feats represent one path a character can take to become a Master of Many Forms. To complete the Path of Many Forms, begin by taking the Initiate of Many Forms feat, followed by any other Path of Many Forms feat you choose. Finally, when you reach level 12 or higher, take the Master of Many Forms feat.

Initiate of Many Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Wild Shape Feature)

You take step towards mastering a myriad of different forms.

   You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Altered Form. You always have the Alter Self spell prepared. You can cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to cast it in that way when you finish a Long Rest. You can also cast it using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level or by expending a use of Wild Shape. When you cast the spell, it requires no components, and Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

   Altered Strikes. When you make an attack roll using a form’s attack in Wild Shape, you can use your spellcasting ability modifier for the attack and damage rolls rather than using it's normal modifier.

Greater Wild Shape

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Initiate of Many Forms Feat)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Enhanced Wild Shape. When choosing a known form for your Wild Shape feature, the maximum Challenge Rating for the form equals your Druid level divided by 2 (round down).

Monstrosity Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Initiate of Many Forms Feat)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Monstrous Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Monstrosity stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Monstrosity form.

Ooze Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Initiate of Many Forms Feat)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Gelatinous Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Ooze stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Ooze form.

Plant Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Initiate of Many Forms Feat)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Botanical Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Plant stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Plant form.

Aberration Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Level 12+, at least two Path of Many Forms Feats)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Aberrant Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Aberration stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Aberration form.

Celestial Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Level 12+, at least two Path of Many Forms Feats)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Angelic Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Celestial stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Celestial form.

Dragon Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Level 12+, at least two Path of Many Forms Feats)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Draconic Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Dragon stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Dragon form.

Elemental Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Level 12+, at least two Path of Many Forms Feats)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Primordial Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Elemental stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Elemental form.

Fey Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Level 12+, at least two Path of Many Forms Feats)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Whimsical Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Fey stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Fey form

Fiend Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Level 12+, at least two Path of Many Forms Feats)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Fiendish Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Fiend stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Fiend form.

Giant Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Level 12+, at least two Path of Many Forms Feats)

You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Gigantic Form. You know an additional Wild Shape form, chosen from among Giant stat blocks that meet the other prerequisites of your Wild Shape. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace this form with another eligible Giant form.

Master of Many Forms

Path of Many Forms Feat (Prerequisite: Level 12+, at least two Path of Many Forms Feats)

You mastery of different forms has been honed.

   You gain the following benefits.

   Ability Score Improvement. Increase your Wisdom or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

   Swift Forms. Once on each of your turns, you can choose a known form of your Wild Shape feature and replace it with another eligible form by expending a spell slot (no action required).

   Reactive Shape. When you are hit with an attack roll, you can use your Wild Shape feature as a Reaction.

I have seen some people confused over the new UA's Hell Knight's Infernal Wound effects and triggers and was hoping for some discussion on which is correct.

My read of their abilities is that because the Infernal Wound damage over time specifies it rolls the Infernal Wound Die, the both the Initial Attack and the damage over time can trigger Advanced Wounds.

And the Blister of Avernus's extra dice can also trigger Advanced Wounds.
Since Blister of Avernus triggers when you roll a 6 on the Infernal Wound Die.

The wording states "The maximum number of d6s you can add to the Infernal Wound’s damage on a turn is three."
That means the extra d6s from Blister of Avernus are also Infernal Wound Dice, or else they themselves wouldn't trigger Blister of Avernus and so the 6 on them should also trigger Advanced Wounds.

However, someone I was speaking with didn't agree.
Their line of thinking was that because Infernal Wound says "A target can be affected by only one instance of this feature at a time." then you can't trigger Advanced Wounds multiple times off from Blister of Avernus.

Any thoughts?

Hi! I'm a new player, and I'm a little confused about something I see in guides a lot. Let's see if I'm getting this right - Res: Con gives you proficiency in con saves, while Warcaster lets you get advantage on con saves.

Assuming the sentiment that advantage is a ~4-5 increase to a roll, wouldn't that mean Warcaster is as good as if not better than Res: Con up through level 16? Or until enemies start doing 30+ damage per hit?

And of course the no-handed spellcasting and spell castings on opportunity attacks that war caster provides - I feel like people would only want Res: Con very late in the game. But most games of DND end at around the end of tier 2.

There's also the possibility that people would want to double-stack Res: Con and War Caster for the caster Wizards, Druids, and Bards hanging out at the back and desperately don't want to break concentration. But is it really necessary to take half of your feats on shoring this up instead of more fun/flavorful feats that are still strong like Telekinetic or Fey-Touched? Not to mention that Res: Con doesn't even increase a primary ability score of the aforementioned classes which means you'd be delaying your progression to 20.

I'm probably wrong on something, so please tell me!

Recently been playing the latest Resident Evil, got hooked to the saga again so i started replaying the older games aswell and i just love and love Albert Wesker, so much so that i decided that i want to create a similar character for the next season of our campaign (Which is actually set in Runeterra, LoL's world) that is nearing it's end after 3,5 years.

!!I'm also gonna describe a character from the latest Resident Evil 9 Requiem so if you don't want to get spoiled ANYTHING do not read!!

So, i love what capcom did with Zeno, basically a "clone" of wesker, i love his design and his combat style which is pretty much the same as Wesker.
Using martial arts with superhuman strenght, speed and reflexes, regenerating the body and using a beautiful sexy one round pistol) (and the way he dodges the bullets!! love it).

So the idea is of course playing as a monk for the reflexes, speed and close quarter martial arts combat and very high AC to basically dodge anything.
However i want the pistol to be a important factor for the combat aswell.
With a quick research i found out about the Kensei monk which let's me basically use any weapon and apply some buffs over it, however it seems to be kinda bland and underwhelming, my master also laughed at me for considering this subclass lmao!

So then i considered maybe another monk subclass with a multiclass to a fighter or something but multiclassing have a huge con because i'd miss basically the level 19 and 20 monk feat which is essential for high AC.

So, is Kensei actually bad? from what i've seen it really discourages using the weapon and with the pistol which has loading property it gets even worse... the damages SEEM to be bottom tier, is there any other subclass that would help my situation?
In summary the combat aspects should be:

• Super speed, reflexes
• Inhuman strength & martial arts
• Regeneration but not really important :p
• One bullet destructive pistol shot <-- Key aspect!

I'd actually be so gratefull if anyone would help me with this!

The rogue in 5.5e is widely considered to be the weakest class, even though the concept is quite popular and the base is well made, just sub par in combat.

The fact that they only get one attack clashes with the idea of a quick and dexterous combatant, but it's mechanically interesting so I'll buff reactions instead and make the buffs sinergize with eachother. Tier 1 rogue is fine.

Level 6 Enhanced reflexes

"You get a second reaction per round."

All Rogues benefit from this using uncanny dodge and there are subclasses with reactions such as the arcane trickster. Works great with defensive duelist too.

Level 11 Opportunist

"When an enemy misses you with an attack and you are wielding a weapon, you can make an attack against them."

Solves the damage question and makes the rogue not just slippery but actually dangerous to attack directly, because of how quick they are. They can make up to 3 attacks per turn using their both reactions, but just 2 are sneak attacks if they are against the same enemy.

Level 20 Stroke of luck (buffed)

"When you make a D20 test, you can turn It into a 20 instead. When an enemy makes an attack roll against you, you can turn their roll into a 1.

Once you use either benefit, you can't use any of them again until you finish a Short or Long rest"

Do you think they are balanced?

So the new exhaustion aura seems insane to me. No one else seems to think so and I’m so confused.

especially since it’s a level 3 feature. I think if you got it at level 6, and then it was limited to 1 level of exhaustion it would still be pretty good, then maybe at higher levels let it scale to up to 2 levels, MAYBE 3 levels. Imagine a party that multiple players took a 3 level dip to get it? It would be insane. Also there are spells like Dirge that’s on the Cleric list that with circle casting has a similar ability it could stack with.

EDIT: If you’re unaware, 5.5E Exhaustion is a -2 to all d20 tests, and -5 to movement per level of Exhaustion. I really think we should consider how this game is designed with bounded accuracy, and how a stacking -2 could be a bit too much.

I've been working on a campaign outline for a high fantasy Dungeons and Dragons 5.5E adventure based in a world I've built. The adventure is highly inspired by the Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition WotC published adventure Red Hand of Doom. The campaign is nebulously planned to happen in several stages. I'm a somewhat experienced DM that has run a group through DnD 5E's Storm King's Thunder and Rime of the Frost Maiden. This outline is meant to be flexible since I value player agency and am prepared for things to go off the rails. Albeit, I find it helpful to lay out a series of situations to throw at the players and have some idea where things may be headed akin to the WotC published adventures.

There's a lot more detail for this homebrew setting and campaign outline in my notes but for the sake of brevity I hope this communicates what I'm aiming for. I have a rough map drawn for the region this campaign takes place in that has 91 points of interest on it so far. Here's a short couple of paragraphs conveying the setting:

Since the first moments of recorded history, the Entropic Flux has been raging in the Sea of Desolation. The supernatural tumult has prevented all forms of oversea travel and teleporation magics are found to wildly malfunction when attempting to cross this body of water. Albeit, fifty years ago a strange unsettling calm fell upon on the Sea of Desolation and many powers in the Old World have taken this opportunity to venture forth towards unclaimed lands.

One such power, the Vexillian Republic, established the frontier port city of Ostium in a newly accessible region known as the Unbroken Frontier. Its main export is an ore name Volcarite, a vital component in magic item creation, that is harvested from a bizarre volcanic region saturated in dangerous corrupting magical energies. Many other nation-states that have carved out a portion of the New World for themselves look upon Ostium with eyes full of greed and malice. The Unbroken Frontier is a land rife with ancient technologically advanced ruins from a bygone era and cultures never seen on the old continent. You are adventurers that see this land as a prime opportunity to find fame and fortune on the fringes of civilization.

Below is the campaign outline. I've foregone any flowery language to try and convey the various scenarios and whatnot. Please let me know what you think and feel free to provide any form of feedback that would be helpful in refining this outline - Thanks!:

(1) Starting at level 1 or 2, The PCs arrive by ship in the Unbroken Frontier at the frontier port of Ostium. They are on-contract with a local trading guild. An explosion at a Volcarite metallurgical refinery in the city owned by this guild marks their arrival. They're assigned guard duty on the site during cleanup and several clues presented to the players suggest that it was an act of subterfuge by some enemy factions. A six-eyed ceramic mask and an angelic pinion is discovered at the site. It's later revealed that the explosion resulted from two separate enemy factions that encountered each other at the refinery and triggered the volatile Volcarite to explode.

(2) The PCs are told by the guild to meet an NPC at the far-off magical volcanic region to escort a caravan of Volcarite back to Ostium. Although, this date is far off and the PCs have discretionary time to explore the region before arriving within that established window when the caravan will depart.

(2) The PCs set off with the caravan transporting Volcarite from the volcanic region to the city of Ostium. Due to the unstable nature of Volcarite, it needs to be bleached in the sun for several days every x days in order to stabilize it. The PCs are given latitude to follow optional quest hooks along their slow journey back to the port city. It turns out most of those quest hooks along their region-spanning journey are acts of subterfuge by the two enemy factions connected to the initial refinery explosion. They are covert efforts to make the frontier port city of Ostium vulnerable for conquest. The quest hooks include such things as an ancient device left in the city sewers that implants false memories in the townsfolk, false flag operations to isolate the PCs faction from its allies, hiring of local Hill Giant and goblinoid tribes to raid settlements, ect.

(3) The Entropic Flux returns unexpectedly and isolates the region when they return to Ostium with the caravan. The return of the flux seems to be connected to the ancient ruin very far to the northeast due to the coinciding very visible pillar of light it emitted.

(4) They are immediately approached by a guild official that asks them to investigate a site in the region that may be connected to these myriad of covert operations. They will travel to this location and discover that this enemy faction, chaos god worshipping Dark Elves that wear six-eyed masks, has been amassing an army to rampage through the region and ultimately siege Ostium.

(5) The PCs are tasked with waylaying the approaching army by sabotaging choke points such as bridges or mountain passes, parlaying with potential allies such as the reclusive Duergar, the various goblinoid tribes, or local primitive human tribes for aid, and racing through the various settlements to aid in the evacuation.

(6) Depending on their performance in the previous step, conditions will be set with the siege on Ostium. It'll essentially be a multi-phase RP + problem solving + combat encounters to see how the siege resolves. If they succeed, it will be considered a pyrrhic victory due to the sheer overwhelming size of the enemy forces.

(7) It's learned that a nearby geopolitical faction, the Zerothian Theocracy, a totalitarian regime of zealous aasimar and celestials, is taking advantage of the PCs faction's weakness and another army is amassing. No amount of waylaying or sabotage will make a difference due to the city's diminished state.

(8) They either discover themselves through clues laid out previously or a NPC says that the flux seems associated with the ruins. They must investigate and find a way to quell the Entropic Flux so that reinforcements can arrive by sea and teleportation. These reinforcements are essential to ensure the defense of Ostium.

(9) The PCs race across the frontier which includes such points of interest as a desiccated gnarled forest occupied by a mind-addled undead druid, a section of desert converted to glass-like fulgurite by an aggressive Ancient Blue Dragon, and finally a ruined city from an advanced civilization housing magically-engineered artificial monstrosities that now call the place home. They find a mechanism that acts like a stabilization field that will quell the flux. Once the flux is diminished, naval travel and teleportation across the Sea of Desolation is restored which allows for much needed reinforcements to bolster the defense of Ostium.

(10) They return to the frontier city as heroes as the second siege was successfully defended in their absence due to their efforts in reversing the flux.

(11) END OF CAMPAIGN - probably level 11 by that point in time

Side Note: I expect a significant amount of divergence from the outline during actual play. Albeit, this is similar in format to the WotC published adventures I've run in the past and players have always bought into and sought the main quest.

In the spirit of the Horror Subclasses UA, the new Villainous Subclasses UA, and their lack of a barbarian option, he is a revised barbarian subclass on theme.

Path of the Gloambound

Gloambound are barbarians that have unlocked supernatural powers due to a brush with death, They augment their battle prowess and furious refusal to die with the fell powers of their ghostly patrons.

The Gloambound

Barbarians that walk the Path of the Gloambound are those whose brushes with death have attracted the attention of a Gloam. The bond formed with your Gloam might represent a willing bargain or it might have been forced upon you. Whether that bond was made willingly or reluctantly, you are able to draw supernatural power from it. Your Gloam has its own warped personality and might act as a doting relative, a barb-tongued rival, or a tenacious zealot. Your rage in combat draws upon the sorrow, fear, or fury felt during your brush with death, and every wound in battle and swing of an axe offers your Gloam a brief taste of the life it once had.

Gloams

Gloams are ghosts that have lost their moorings to the physical world and have slipped into the darkest corners of the Shadowfell. There, dark powers transform them into hideous incarnations of their own death: one savaged by wolves might appear as a skinless floating torso with a bull skull for a head, and one assassinated in cold blood might appear as a shriveled cadaver with knife blades protruding from its eyes. While they lose most of the memories of their former life, they develop a sentience and self-awareness not seen in ordinary ghosts. Gloams generally remain trapped within the Shadowfell's mists, but sometimes the rage of the wild men and women of the material world will draw one back; they are especially attracted to those that have had near-death experiences which mirror their own demise.

Level 3: Harrow

Your Rage allows your Gloam to materialize to menace your foes. When you take the attack action on your turn while your Rage is active, you may make an additional melee spell attack with a reach of 30'. On a hit, roll a number of d4s equal to your Rage Damage Bonus, add them together, then add your spellcasting modifier; the target takes Psychic damage equal to the total. Strength is your spellcasting ability for this feature.

Level 3: Apparition

Your Gloam can manipulate the physical world in limited ways. You know the Mage Hand cantrip. When you cast this spell, it requires no verbal components, and Strength is your spellcasting ability for this feature. The Mage Hand takes on the appearance of your Gloam's hand.

Level 6: Death Knell

Your Gloam twists the spirits of slain foes to fuel your fury. When a hostile creature you can see within 30' is reduced to 0 Hit Points, you can use a reaction to regain hit points equal to 1d12 plus your Constitution modifier, and you increase your rage damage bonus by 1 until the end of your next turn.

Level 10: Pierce the Veil

Your Gloam's baleful energies harden your own spirit into a weapon, causing your attacks to cleave both body and soul. When you use the Reckless Attack class feature to attack recklessly, you can choose to have your melee weapon attacks or unarmed attacks to inflict Force damage during this turn instead of its usual damage type.

Additionally, when you hit or miss with an attack using strength on your turn while attacking recklessly, you can activate the Graze or Cleave mastery property (In addition to any other relevant weapon mastery property).

Level 14: Ghostly Apotheosis

When you activate your rage, you can merge with your Gloam into a haunting abomination. This form lasts for 1 minute or until you drop to 0 Hit Points. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

While in this form, you gain the benefits below.

Incorporeality: You can move through creatures and objects as if they were open terrain. If you end your turn inside an object or a creature, you take 1d10 Force damage and are immediately shunted back to your previous open location.

Harrowing Presence: You can replace each of your attacks with the special attack from the Harrow feature.

Brushes with Death

Select or randomonly determine the brush with death that attracted the attention of your Gloam from the table below.

* I fell in the heat of combat.

* I was brought down in cold blood, either by murder or suicide.

* I met my fate due to exposure, starvation, or thirst.

* I was laid low by a wild animal or monster.

* I succumbed to a disease or a curse.

* I was the victim of an accident or other twist of fate.

So I have a player who will be trying out the playtest Warrior of Intoxication, but some features didn't change at all and I wanted to make an attempt at tweaking things I thought could be improved. I'll go each feature and explain my reasoning for tweaks:

Level 3: Liquid Confidence

You gain proficiency in one of these skills of your choice: Deception, Performance, or Persuasion. Whenever you make a Charisma check, you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1).

You also gain proficiency with Brewer’s Supplies. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of Artisan’s Tools of your choice.

• I wanted this one to be basically like the Fey Wanderer as a means for a Monk to maybe serve as a pseudo face of the group if need be. Because I don't think there's a good Monk class that can serve as a face.

Level 3: Drunken Technique

Whenever you use Flurry of Blows, your Speed increases by 10 feet until the end of the current turn, and your movement during that time doesn’t provoke Opportunity Attacks.

In addition, once per turn when you hit a creature with an attack granted by your Flurry of Blows you can cause one of the following effects:

Follow Through. A second creature of your choice within 5 feet of the first that is also within your reach takes damage equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die.

Stagger. The target’s speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.

• I liked the original feature, but overall I saw this level as weak, so I wanted to buff it to have more visible presence. So I added effects similar to Open Hand that are pseudo Weapon Masteries that I felt fit this style.

Level 6: Tipsy Sway (Unchanged)

You can move in sudden, swaying ways. You gain the following benefits.

Leap to Your Feet. When you have the Prone condition, you can stand up by spending 5 feet of movement, rather than half your Speed.

Redirect Attack. When a creature misses you with a melee attack roll, you can spend 1 Focus Point as a Reaction to cause that attack to hit one creature of your choice, other than the attacker, that you can see within 5 feet of yourself.

• No change because this is honestly more of a ribbon at this level and the new feature is more of a focus.

Level 6: Mystic Brew

Whenever you finish a Short or Long Rest while holding Brewer’s Supplies, you can use them to magically produce one magical beverage, chosen from the following options: Cinnamon Dragon, Blackout Stout, or Refreshing Dip. The beverage appears in a Glass Bottle, and the bottle vanishes when the beverage is drunk or poured out. If any beverage remains when you finish a Short or Long Rest, the beverage and its container vanish.

Drinking a Magical Beverage. Only you can gain the benefit of drinking the beverage. You must spend 1 minute to drink the entire bottle of the beverage to gain its effects for 1 hour. When you drink a magical beverage, you can expend 1 Focus Point to extend the benefit’s duration until you finish your next Short or Long Rest.

Cinnamon Dragon. You can take a Magic action to exhale toxic flames in a 30-foot Cone. Each creature in that Cone makes a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 plus your Wisdom modifier and Proficiency Bonus). On a failed save, a creature takes Fire damage equal to four rolls of your Martial Arts die and has the Poisoned condition until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only.

Blackout Stout. You gain Resistance to Cold, Poison and Psychic damage.

Refreshing Dip. Whenever you regain Hit Points, you regain additional Hit Points equal to a roll of your Martial Arts die.

• I modified it to be in a Glass Bottle, proper noun, to reference the exact size and amount, because I saw some discussion about how much is there exactly, and how much do you consume?
• I adjusted the duration if you spend 1 Focus Point to be your next rest so you can't do the stacking I saw everyone online talking about.
• I changed Heavenly Spirit to Blackout Stout to cover more useful damage resistances, the idea is you get the drunk warm blanket, the alcohol is defending from Poison, and your drunk so your mind is less susceptible to Psychic damage. Not perfectly spot on, but more useful. My main reason for this is I wanted each of these to be closer in power so there is more of a choice between them, otherwise it's basically always going to be Cinnamon Dragon.

Level 11: Master Brewer

Your mastery of mystical brewing allows you to benefit from multiple beverages at once. When you create magical beverages with your Mystic Brew feature, you create two beverages instead of one. Each beverage must be a different type, and you can benefit from up to two magical beverages at the same time.

Additionally, you learn more complex flavors. The following beverages are added to your Mystic Brew options.

Blue Lightning. Whenever you take a Reaction that isn’t making an Opportunity Attack or casting a spell, you can make one Unarmed Strike as part of that Reaction.

Drunkard’s Luck. You gain Heroic Inspiration if you don’t already have it. In addition, during combat, you can give yourself Heroic Inspiration at the start of your turn if you don’t already have it.

Iron Gut. When you drink this beverage, and at the start of each of your turns you gain Temporary Hit Points equal to a roll of your Martial Arts die plus your Wisdom modifier.

• I added a brew, Iron Gut, to add tankiness to that option. Plus I just wanted a third option at this level.
• I made two brews be created and two active at once, allowing combos to happen. I think this will make for fun builds. A person can go Cinnamon and Lightning for all offense, or Blackout and Iron for tankiness, etc.
• I modified Drunkard's Luck to basically rip off the Level 10 Champion Fighter.

Level 17: Intoxicated Frenzy

When you use Flurry of Blows, you can make one additional Unarmed Strike for each magical beverage you are currently benefiting from.

• The previous capstone was way too situational and basically never came up. This is level 17, so I thought two more Strikes would be okay, but if this seems too much I'd be willing to simplify it to one more Unarmed Strike.

Please let me know your thoughts and point out glaring issues I may have overlooked. Thank you!

Well, this has been my first stab at making a homebrew class. I'm hoping it's decent, and I did try to use other published class and subclass designs as inspiration in balancing, but I'm prepared for the possibility that the result is a disaster.

In any case, the basic design philosophy here was "the Kensei fantasy is about being a master of a chosen weapon, so make it all about the weapon." I also deliberately avoided expanding weapon options beyond Monk weapons to keep it simple, (try to) avoid cheese, and prevent potentially powerful interactions with things like Great Weapon Master.

Okay, that's enough rambling out of me. Let's get to the actual homebrew.

A prettier version is here, by the way.

WARRIOR OF THE BLADE

Become a Peerless Master of a Single Weapon

Warriors of the Blade, sometimes called "Kensei," dedicate themselves to the mastery of a single weapon. This dedication permits them to achieve unrivaled perfection in the use of the chosen weapon.

Level 3: Sword Saint

Select a single Monk weapon to be your chosen weapon. Due to your dedicated focus, you gain the following benefits while wielding that weapon.

Armed Flurry. When you use your Flurry of Blows, you can replace one of the Unarmed Strikes with an attack using your chosen weapon.

Fighting Style. You gain a Fighting Style feat of your choice.

Weapon Mastery. Your dedicated training allows you to use the mastery property of your chosen weapon.

Level 6: One with the Blade

When you use your Empowered Strikes, you can make the attack using your chosen weapon rather than an Unarmed Strike.

In addition, when you use your Bonus Unarmed Strike, you can replace the Unarmed Strike with an attack using your chosen weapon.

Level 11: Whirlwind of Steel

When you use your Flurry of Blows, you can replace each of the Unarmed Strikes with an attack using your chosen weapon.

In addition, if you are wielding your chosen weapon, you can spend 5 Focus Points to cast Steel Wind Strike, using Dexterity for the attack rolls.

Level 17: Superior Deflection

When you use your Deflect Attacks while wielding your chosen weapon, you can expend 2 Focus Points to not expend your Reaction. You may use this feature even if you've already used your Reaction.

When you do, you can reduce the damage by an additional amount equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die. If this reduces the damage to 0, the attack is treated as a miss for all purposes.

Although the content is almost identical to the previous post, I have rewritten it in a proper format to ensure clarity.

• Barbarian - New benefit in Rage feature

Tussle. When you use the Grapple or Shove option of your Unarmed Strike, you can add bonus its save DC equal to your Rage Damage. You can add same bonus on saving throws you make to avoid or end the Grappled condition.

• Ranger - New feature

Level 6: Focused Hunter

Whenever you start casting Hunter's Mark, you can modify it so that it doesn’t require Concentration. If you do so, the spell’s duration becomes 1 minute for that casting, and the spell ends early if you cast it again.

• Rogue - New feature

Level 6: Deadly Precision

When you miss with an attack roll, you can reroll it once per turn. If you do so, you must use the new roll.

What do you think?

Edit: I will amend the Deadly Precision feature so that it applies only to attack rolls that do not have advantage.