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Would it be balanced to change True Strike from a cantrip to a 1st level spell in order to make accessing it less of an investment?
True Strike is often considered as a poor or at least very situational cantrip, as is also discussed in the question Why would I ever cast True Strike?. The consensus seems to be that its biggest ...
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Is the Blood Transfer cantrip that my player came to me with overpowered
Now, I know that healing cantrips are completely broken. So then, my player comes to me with this:
Blood Transfer
Evocation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: S
Duration: ...
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Is this homebrew "Cactus Grenade" cantrip balanced?
I am currently homebrewing a set of "brawler" races, modeled after the nonhuman, humanoid characters in Brawl Stars. For one race, I've made a homebrew cantrip, Cactus Grenade. Is it ...
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Is this homebrew life-stealing melee cantrip unbalanced?
I started thinking about a variant of a melee attack cantrip like booming blade that would allow you to regain some lost health. The cantrip I came up with is this:
Evocation cantrip
Casting time:...
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Do the Illusionist's Bracers make warlocks unbalanced? [closed]
The Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica book introduces a magic item called the illusionist's bracers:
While wearing the bracers, whenever you cast a cantrip, you can use a
bonus action on the same ...
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Does this cantrip have a fair risk/reward balance?
One of my players is a demonologist and requested a cantrip related to the field. So I took a crack at it and came up with the following thinking that an attack on the mind was fitting:
Three-Word ...
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Are there any serious balance implications to letting a sorcerer take the Produce Flame cantrip?
A player building a 1st level Sorcerer character feels that produce flame is a better thematic fit for their character than fire bolt. Are there any serious balance issues with allowing them to take ...
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Is this homebrew variant of True Strike too strong to be a cantrip?
Here is my homebrew variant of the true strike cantrip:
Lethal Strike
Enchantment cantrip
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Duration: Until the end of the current turn
When ...
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Would allowing multiple spells per turn be OP?
I've played about 3 sessions and I DM'd my own session a few weeks ago, so I’m pretty new to all this.
I've been reading the rules in the Player’s Handbook and on RPG.SE and I came across the ...
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Would allowing a cantrip cast as a bonus action to be used on the same turn as a non-cantrip cast as an action break the game?
In my group I was planning on making some house rule changes to the section on bonus action spells, as I'm not a fan of how it's currently written. I'd prefer the normal action(spell) + bonus action(...
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