Examining the Gunslinger's Misfire mechanic as a cautionary tale for importing character options from other games. Why to never base a class on a "critical fumble" mechanic.
The Gunslinger Misfire
Tag: Feat
Passive-Only Skills
Are there skills which should only function as passive skills? How passive-only skills can align player:character knowledge and assist DMs to plan ahead.
Gunner feat for Spellcasters
The Gunner feat has replaced the Crossbow Expert feat as the prime feat for martial blasting.
Blade Cantrip Changes
Examining the updates to Green-Flame Blade and Booming Blade and their new interactions with metamagic, feats, spells, and class features.
Lucky Death Saves
Exploring how 5e's dice manipulation features affect your odds to survive death saving throws.
That Broken GWM/SS “Fix”
The most notorious feats in 5th Edition D&D are Sharpshooter (SS) and Great Weapon Master (GWM). These feats are considered the most powerful because of a mechanic they share in common. Yet, a common "fix" to nerf them does not have the intended result! Let's run the numbers.
Variant Human War Caster
As a follow-up to last week's post comparing the War Caster and Resilient (CON) feats, let's take a look at how the numbers shake out if you're playing a Variant Human or in a campaign where your DM lets you have a free feat at level 1.
War Caster vs. Resilient (CON)
Comparing the War Caster and Resilient (CON) feats to determine which one gives a bigger boost to maintaining concentration on a spell.
Movement Effect Size Caps
Should effects which manipulate the movement of a target be limited by size? We examine the narrative issues and give you a simple rule that fixes them by employing size caps.
Thrown Weapon Master
Today we're building a feat to alleviate action economy woes with thrown weapons and give them a nice damage boost to bring it in line with other weapon loadouts.
