Mark: When you make a mêlée attack against a foe you can choose to mark the target. There are other issues with disarm, but I’ll deal with those in a future blog post. The Battlemaster’s ability does damage which the standard disarm attempt does not, and probably has a greater chance of success. The foe then makes a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + attacker’s proficiency bonus + attack’s relevent ability score modifier) or be disarmed. The battlemaster attacks and adds the superiority die to the damage he rolls. Do these rules overlap with the Battlemaster Fighter too much? The Battlemaster can attempt a special disarm by spending a superiority die. The defender’s roll is at advantage (if it is larger than its attacker) or disadvantage if it is smaller. The attacker’s roll is at disadvantage if the defender is holding a weapon in two hands. If the attacker wins the defender is disarmed and the weapon falls to the defender’s feet. This seems flavourful and is easy to adjudicate.ĭisarm: The attacker makes an attack roll that is contested by the defender’s Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. A contested roll is all that is required for the smaller character to climb onto the larger one and start clambering around him as if the larger creature is difficult terrain. This is what is on offer:Ĭlimb onto a bigger creatures: Rules to allow a small or medium character to climb onto a “suitably large” opponent. However, some may tread on the toes of other abilities already in the rules, so I would like to get your views. I like them all in principle because they feel as though they are things that any character should be able to attempt in battle. These are all options that would have appeared in the ‘Combat Manoeuvres’ section of the third or fourth edition PHB. In ‘Action Options’ I’m grouping together six different optional rules designed to provide more variety to combat at the table. If it does come up in play, we can make an adjudication then as to what happens to your character. I’d prefer to do this, than insist everyone defines their character by alignment. It’s not hard to work out if you are playing a Good or Evil character after all. If such a thing were ever to come up in a campaign, I think we’d just have to make a ruling on where your character stands. That plane affects you in different ways depending on your Alignment. Travel to Mount Celestia and you will see a plane that is the personification of Order and Goodness. If you’re playing in a Planescape campaign then the it’s quite a fundamental thing that the Outer Planes are aligned along moral and ethical lines. The general concept of “Alignment” – of Good, Evil, Law and Chaos – may be quite relevent in certain circumstances. Of course, all this depends on the campaign. If you think your character’s back-story, personality traits, ideal, bond and flaw are more than adequate, then you can ignore Alignment entirely. If declaring that your character is one of the nine available alignments helps to define who the character is, and make them easier to roleplay, then by all means use alignment. There are a tiny, tiny handful of abilities where alignment does play a role in the rules, and if these do come up in play then we’ll have to muddle through them as best we can.Īs Alignment has so little mechanical influence on your character, then you can take it or leave it. For example, the paladin’s traditional detect evil ability has been remained “Divine Sense” and doesn’t detect Evil, but instead detects the presence of celestials, fiends or undead creatures. Spells and abilities that mention alignment do so in name only. In D&D 5th edition, Alignment has little mechanical effect on the game.
Some I will just briefly touch upon, while others I will dwell on in more detail. By my count there are more than 90 variant rules scattered through the Player’s Handbook and Dungeon Master’s Guide, and I’m going to go through every one of them in this post. After more than two years of playtest packets and limited options, the whole breadth of the new PHB and DMG are now at our disposal, along with all the variant content and optional rules modules that the game now offers. With about a month or so until the start of the my first ‘proper’ 5th edition campaign, I’d like to spend a moment hammering out the rules we’re going to use to play the game.
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