[5e] Cantrip versus archer - again....

Skyrock · November 18, 2014, 10:25:39 AM

Quote from: Sacrosanct;799327Yep. The first clue I knew they were on the right path is when all the charop crowd had tissy fits because many of the "good" class abilities you didn't get until level 3 or so.

I consider myself to be a powergamer - and I actually like what I have seen and played of 5e so far.

There is a lot of choice, some clearly better, some clearly worse, but there are very few optimal choices (like Eldritch Blast for the Warlock), and you'd really need to work on it to cripple your character to the point of uselessness.
Multiclassing is now an odd-ball choice you do when you know exactly what you are doing, know how it will rhyme and know that there will be someone else in the party to back up the abilities you will sacrifice, not the default to get a competent character at all.

Will · November 18, 2014, 10:36:57 AM

I like that multiclassing is explicitly optional now, too.

Personally, I think feats, backgrounds, and sub-classes are plenty, and won't allow multiclassing (unless someone pitches HARD, and even then I'd probably rather make up feats/sub-classes myself)

Omega · November 18, 2014, 11:26:40 PM

Quote from: Marleycat;799433while Book types are all about getting rituals for the versitility plus the 3 extra cantrips off any class list. They're not as combat focused obviously. But they're good stopgap types like Bards depending on the party composition.

The ability to pick up rituals from any other class with them has all sorts of potential if the Tome Warlock can ever lay hands on a healing type ritual. Pre-Big Battle buffing seems another track.

Marleycat · November 19, 2014, 12:27:09 AM

Quote from: Omega;799645The ability to pick up rituals from any other class with them has all sorts of potential if the Tome Warlock can ever lay hands on a healing type ritual. Pre-Big Battle buffing seems another track.

It has to have the ritual tag already but yeah it could be an interesting path to take.

RPGPundit · November 21, 2014, 11:51:45 PM

Quote from: Old One Eye;798601Fairly irrelevant if it is once per day for a spell that lasts forever. Rome was a thousand years old at the height of empire. A thousand years of continual lights that last forever would have the city as bright as Vegas.

That's funny, because this could form the makings for a serious crisis in a fantasy setting!

[5e] Cantrip versus archer - again....

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