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Is increasing the Primal Savagery spell's damage die to 1d12 unbalanced/unnecessary?
The primal savagery spell (XGtE, p. 163) states:
[...] Make a melee spell attack against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 acid damage...
The spell's damage increases ...
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How can I decide if my homebrew item should require attunement? [duplicate]
Attunement slots are an important tool for maintaining game balance - especially in high magic settings where magic items are common.
If I've homebrewed a new magic item for my players, how can I ...
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What balance issues would arise from a Chaotic Good Paladin?
I have long been annoyed by the inability of Chaotic Good warriors to become empowered by their unwavering faith in freedom and human decency, and so am considering a custom archetype that would allow ...
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Balance Implications of Divine Smite Doing Necrotic Damage?
I have a True Neutral Paladin that is also a Fallen Aasimar. He has fully embraced darkness, letting it into his heart and spurned his celestial heritage. He hasn't gone fully evil purely because he ...
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What would be the balance effects of adding extra Divination spells?
I am playing a Divination wizard at the moment and quite disappointed that there are only 17 Divination spells, so I thought I would look at some homebrew ones to talk to the DM about.
The question is,...
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How do you determine if a homebrew class is balanced with regards to its multiclassing potential?
When designing and balancing a homebrewed class, I want to avoid features that, while keeping the core class balanced, will cause multiclass builds with WotC classes to be game breaking.
An example ...
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Are these homebrew weapon attack cantrips balanced? [closed]
I have created some new cantrips which include making a weapon attack as there are only two official ones to choose from. I've tried to follow these principles based on Booming Blade and Green-Flame ...
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What are the mechanical balance issues with a playable race with more than two hands?
Somewhat inspired by this question: Can I use multiple hands for one attack, using this 6-Handed-Ones homebrew race?
As I started to explore with my question about playable Kuo-Toa, I'm interested in ...
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Would increasing a Dragonborn's breath weapon damage help to balance them?
Dragonborn are arguably considered one of the weakest playable races, as supported by the answers to my other recent question: How would adding a darkvision racial trait to Dragonborn affect balance?
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How would adding a darkvision racial trait to Dragonborn affect balance?
Dragonborn, as I understand it, are considered to be one of the weakest, if not the weakest, playable race. Their flavour is cool, especially for people who like dragons, but their being sub-par in ...
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Are these homebrew shields balanced? [closed]
Ever since I first looked at the equipment tables in the PHB, I've been dissatisfied with the lack of different shield options. I suppose it makes sense in the 5e philosophy of making everything as ...
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Is multiple magic items in one inherently imbalanced?
I have an idea for a weapon that can permanently absorb items that require attunement to gain its properties (including its attunement requirement), up to 3.
For example, the item alone does not ...
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Is this homebrew race with a day/night-dependent racial trait balanced? [closed]
I want to create a homebrew race for D&D, so that I may use it when I'll find a group (with the DM's approval, of course). The race is wolf related, so what I want to do is give them a night ...
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Would this custom Sorcerer variant that can only learn any verbal-component-only spell be unbalanced?
I recently started reading through the Shannara books by Terry Brooks, and it got me thinking about how the notion of the wishsong would translate into a system like D&D.
My (very) rough idea ...
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How to balance a monster modification (zombie)?
I am DM'ing a campaign called "Army of the Damned" based on Magic the Gathering: Innistrad in which a horde of zombies is attacking a town. In the 5e Monster Manual, zombies have poison immunity but ...
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