Comments on: Unearthed Arcana: Feats for Races Breakdown

By: Brandes Stoddard

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:17:00 +0000

In reply to Unexpected Dave. No lie, Dragonbait (and Alias for that matter) might be my favorite characters in all of the FR novel line, though to be fair I have not read a new FR novel in uhhh closing in on twenty years.

By: Unexpected Dave

Unexpected Dave — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:08:00 +0000

In reply to Brandes Stoddard. Won't someone please think of the saurials.

By: crimfan

crimfan — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:40:00 +0000

In reply to Adam Masters. I worked the numbers for this kind of thing out a while ago. There's an analytic formula for the effect of "take the best of K dice" that's pretty easy. I'll have to post it.

By: Manotaur

Manotaur — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:29:00 +0000

In reply to Brandes Stoddard. Oh, OK, thanks for the heads up!!!

By: Brandes Stoddard

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:08:00 +0000

In reply to MTi. Tieflings had been part of FR in 3.x, and a potential part of FR in 2e (since anything could meander from a Planescape campaign to an FR campaign). Tieflings don't have an established "place" in the FR lore, but being drifters and loners is part of their theme anyway. Dragonborn don't go back that far, and thus FR didn't get as much time to absorb them into its canon. I'll never understand why they didn't reskin dragonborn to be saurials, though.

By: MTi

MTi — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:03:00 +0000

In reply to Brandes Stoddard. Exactly. If I'm not mistaken, Dragonborn and Tieflings were transferred to 5e in order for 4e people to feel more akin to the new edition. The problem is that neither of these races was canon in FR (the default 5e setting), so they had to induce them to FR somehow. It kind of worked for Tielfings, not so much for Dragonborn.

By: Arthur Augustus

Arthur Augustus — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:32:00 +0000

regarding the Flames of Phlegethos portion of the article. Warlocks gain Green-Flame Blade as a cantrip which is a fire damage dealing cantrip best used by bladelocks who benefit from the being close to an opponent and the spell itself makes extra attack useless.
You are right however when you say that the intelligence boost is useless for a warlock which is the class a tiefling is most likely going to be played as. But as a DM to be, i’d allow fiend pact warlock to gain an invocation to that turns dex save fire spells into charisma saves for psychic as in exchange for a number of hit dice divided by the dice rolled for damage to allow for the conversion. It seems flavorful in my eyes

By: Sean Holland

Sean Holland — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:22:00 +0000

Good analysis as always.

As the occasional player of a Dragonborn character, I found their new options underwhelming. Dragon Hide I found particularly odd, as it is much more about the claws than the hide in the text and why is not Constitution on of the Stats you can raise when you take that feat? Very strange. I would have preferred to have that feat focus all on defense. The wings are nice, but the limits of the slow speed and cost of a feat are actually fairly high to my mind.

Elven accuracy is quite scary, I really want to try it with my Elven barbarian though.

By: Adam Masters

Adam Masters — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:38:00 +0000

Mathematically triple advantage equates to about a 12.5% increase to hit over advantage 87.5% as opposed to 75% assuming a base difficulty of 50%. Which is a solid bonus to accuracy when you have advantage. But it is less impressive than the accuracy boost sharpshooter can give you with a disadvantage and that’s not even the most scary part of that feat.

By: crimfan

crimfan — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:34:00 +0000

In reply to Unexpected Dave.

Well they’re certainly less flexible in a number of respects. Concentration can cut both ways, too. If you make a Wall of Fire that lasts for some fixed duration you can’t drop it when you want it to go away, which can definitely be a problem in many circumstances.

I’m guessing that a caster like that would rely a lot on cantrips.