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Can my players abuse this homebrew Blade of the Thirst magic item?
I am designing a homebrew magic item. I think I have it balanced but need to know if there are any loopholes I have not seen.
Blade of the thirst, magical longsword, requires attunement, versatile, ...
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How can a new DM deal with having given out overpowered weapons at a low level?
I am in a few campaigns, one of them has a DM who's never been a Dungeon Master before. Their grasp of the rules and how the game is played is sound but they are a bit of a pushover when it comes to ...
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Is there a mechanical benefit to using a light crossbow over a long bow or short bow?
A longbow (1d8, 150/600 range), and a shortbow (1d6, 80/320 range) benefit from "Extra Attack".
A light crossbow (1d8, 80/320 range), or a hand crossbow (1d6, 30/120 range), do not benefit ...
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Is this homebrew hûthvír-like weapon balanced?
I am a first time player, and my character is a rock gnome druid. I wanted a weapon loosely based on the hûthvír of the Inheritance Cycle. I asked the DM for permission to make it, and I was told I ...
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Would it cause balance issues to combine the warhammer and war pick?
The vast majority of the historic warhammer heads found have a pointed and a blunt end.
The horseman's pick was a weapon of Islamic origin used by cavalry during the Middle Ages in Europe. This ...
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Are light hammers broken/underpowered, and would adding the finesse property fix this?
When playing RAW, the only simple melee weapon with the finesse property is the dagger (PHB page 149). Most other thrown weapons of this type (hand axe, javelin, and spear) all do 1d6 damage with a ...
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Is a Bastard sword better than a Greatsword?
Fighter level 2 gets Fighting style where you can choose the Duelist fighting style, which gives you +2 damage for weapons with one hand.
Bastard sword's average damage is 5.5 because its damage is ...
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Drawing and sheathing weapons as one item interaction
In PHB, page 190, it explains about the free item interaction:
You can also interact with one object or feature of the environment for free, during either your move or your action. For example, you ...
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How can I use a polearm with Reach as a Monk/Kensei weapon?
I want to make a dexterity based support character that uses weapons mainly for self-defence and not for offence. She will be multi-classed as a Monk/Cleric and themed as a Japanese shrine maiden.
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Is homebrew Martial Spear as balanced as the Chultan spear (yklwa)?
During a discussion at GiTP it appeared to me that there is a gap in the weapons table for spears: there is no martial spear, one handed/versatile, but there is a pike, which is both heavy and two ...
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Does adding finesse to the sickle harm game balance?
By the book, the sickle isn't a finesse weapon. Would game balance suffer were I to house rule the sickle into a finesse weapon?
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Is a Staff with Finesse balanced?
If you've seen the movie Ip Man, you'll remember that he used long wooden implements in a way akin to a staff, yet focused on quick, precise strikes, rather than brute-strength bashing. What's a ...
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Is this "Elven Thrower" magic dagger balanced?
Based on the Dwarven Thrower, this homebrew magic weapon is essentially an elven dagger with the similar returning feature. The exact specifics:
Elven Thrower
Weapon (dagger), rare (requires ...
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Is this Onyx Spear homebrew magic weapon overpowered for a low-level (3-5) character?
I'm building a unique weapon that can be looted off a boss creature in a very early portion of my campaign (expected for characters level 3-5), and I want to ensure that I can fairly hand it out to ...
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Would being able to apply Great Weapon Master twice be a problem?
Great Weapon Master grants the option to take a -5 to your attack roll in order to get a +10 bonus to damage. Due to bounded accuracy, that's a pretty big hit on your chances that's not easy to ...
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