DnD5: The Standard Array
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DnD5: The Standard Array

I got to thinking: How did the Standard Array come about? I figured they did some sort of simulation. Take 4d6, drop lowest, sort them in order, and take the mean, median, or mode of each row.  I wondered, though – what that would look like, and how much variation would there be. I mean,…

Playing with DnD5 Characters – 6th level Monk of the Four Elements
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Playing with DnD5 Characters – 6th level Monk of the Four Elements

Moving on to the Monk, a character basically designed around Kwai Chang Caine. Monks are interesting to me because they seem to get something really cool every level. They have the power of ‘ki,’ expendable energy points that aren’t quite spell slots (or rather, they’re generic power points that might as well be slots). They…

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Action Points and exhausting defense

After I posted the link to my thoughts on spending HP (and thus depleting a reserve of grit and skill) to do more damage to your foe (depleting his reserve of grit and skill) the poster Kalzazz made a comment, which had an interesting bit in it: ‘The enemy made his attack by 3, I…