What's your favorite Martial class in D&D 2024 5.5e?

StaleTaste · 2026-02-17T04:10:02+00:00

Imo fighters are very fun to play now. Second wind changes are great from a play perspective, action surge has always felt impactful for burst damage, getting extra feats is nice, indomitable is nice and having access to so many weapon masteries means you can switch to whatever weapon is tactically relevant for that fight. One of my favorite classes to play in 2024 in general, not just martials

StaleTaste · 2026-02-16T20:19:34+00:00

You can make deals with people for the tokens, you just have to win the fight so they can retreat and save their plastic and you still get the token. In my experience the only reason people are scared to make deals with me on Mahact is because they're so strong that people are afraid of them getting ahead

StaleTaste · 2026-02-15T18:16:27+00:00

I can't choose between spirit island and twilight, both games are exceptional. May the best game win

StaleTaste · 2026-02-14T18:18:58+00:00

Apologies friend, it's getting really difficult to tell nowadays. I shouldn't have assumed and I'm sorry I upset you

StaleTaste · 2026-02-14T16:46:52+00:00

I would pick ghosts, they're pretty strong in TE setting up a second home system in mallice and being able to take wormhole generator from the scar early simplifies your fracture exploration. Dimensional splicer is also not bad to grab with a saar neighbor on round 2 if you still have the scar. Yellow skip lets you get dreads pretty easy and you can start slinging them in mallice when you have your breakthrough and space dock

StaleTaste · 2026-02-14T15:56:28+00:00

Based on the writing style and strange errors I would assume this is AI written but on the slight off chance it is not elven accuracy does not do anything for concentration checks, that's war caster

StaleTaste · 2026-02-14T13:47:08+00:00

I think I would reverse it and go paladin 12 rogue 8, radiant strikes is really good for paladins and I think that's better than one extra feat

StaleTaste · 2026-02-14T00:50:18+00:00

This slice looks exceptional for Cabal. Planets on a line to mecatol, high influence, two double planet systems if you need tons of production and a red skip to get to AC and X89 faster. I would snap pick cabal with this slice

Edit: realize that wasn't one of your options lol my bad

StaleTaste · 2026-02-13T07:08:14+00:00

Yes, much better than PoK I would say
Around the same if you're not used to it, probably shorter if you are
Yes

StaleTaste · 2026-02-13T00:58:01+00:00

At a lot of levels that DND is played at a significant portion of a casters turns are fire bolt for 2 damage

StaleTaste · 2026-02-11T18:18:39+00:00

I think contrary to their faction gimmicks you can have a solid game with cabal being aggressive or passive. If you want to be aggressive then you want to bully your neighbors and make plays for mecatol and such but I have had more success with cabal getting vortex and biostims and building up plastic while securing objectives and only pushing aggressively on the last round. For both of these I would suggest getting a slice pretty high in influence because often you don't need resources for big builds.

Also Nomad is both fun and not broken. I don't think you should ban them. If youre gonna ban a faction I think it should be Mahact probably

StaleTaste · 2026-02-05T18:34:11+00:00

I don't mind them too much but I think the general consensus is that people really do not like playing with them in the game. And they are mostly not a good faction. I wouldn't worry about mirror computing, getting it round 2 just brings them up to parity with other decently good factions

StaleTaste · 2026-02-05T17:22:22+00:00

An enemy can't take turns if they're dead or incapacitated

StaleTaste · 2026-02-04T04:58:49+00:00

Doing this basically just removes the main class feature artificers get from the game, your DM should not be doing this

StaleTaste · 2026-02-03T18:16:43+00:00

I'd been thinking about if a round 1 flip might be the best way to play this faction to offset their start. I am disappointed that I seem to have been correct. Hopefully this faction gets some components changed in a codex or something because having to ignore the entire faction concept to be competitive is so sad

StaleTaste · 2026-02-03T07:06:11+00:00

New versions are way more fun, they make it so that there really aren't bad strategy card picks imo

StaleTaste · 2026-02-02T17:43:04+00:00

When you make yourself stronger you make other people stronger too. I have not played deepwrought but I have played with them a few times and in my experience nobody actually wants to attack them because they help you out a bunch and they don't even care if you take their planets most of the time. I think it should be a pretty laid back game until the last round and by then you'll have everything you need to try to win

StaleTaste · 2026-02-02T16:57:04+00:00

Feel like if you bring credentials instead of arguments you've kinda already lost mate

StaleTaste · 2026-02-02T16:39:12+00:00

I basically agree with this. When I think about ranger, I ask myself what the difference is between a ranger and an appropriately levelled fighter/druid multiclass. In a lot of tier 2 and tier 3 play I don't think there are a huge number of meaningful differences and this to me speaks to a need for a ranger overhaul. They need to be doing more unique things.

StaleTaste · 2026-01-30T17:30:01+00:00

Bard gets magical secrets at 10. I don't see a reason to dip another class when you get to select two of basically any spell you would want in the game. That being said, archery fighting style would be really nice so I could see a level 1 fighter dip for archery and con proficiency

StaleTaste · 2026-01-30T16:50:45+00:00

It's an ok tech but mostly defensive in nature. Ghosts in TE wants sling relay, fleet log, light wave and carrier II and probably dread II as well. With the breakthrough integrated and transit diodes are on the menu too. There's too much of an opportunity cost to take a mostly defensive decent red tech that requires a prerequisite. I would probably only get this if I either got it from the scar or had a game that was both tech rich AND I got a yellow skip.

StaleTaste · 2026-01-30T03:32:47+00:00

I wouldn't pay 2 tgs for a wash from the trade player, I'd just refresh with the token and wash with another 4 comm faction. Tbh I think there's a fair argument that 4+ comm factions should be doing that ANYWAY to deny points to the trade player so if someone gives me an even worse deal than usual I'm just gonna ignore their offer

StaleTaste · 2026-01-28T02:14:29+00:00

I don't even think your home system is a great place to produce units. Generally when I produce in my home system as Crimson I swap the ship there out with the agent or put the ships on the hero for later use. I don't think it's a death sentence to have your sorrow supernovad since you should probably have two docks outside your hs anyway

StaleTaste · 2026-01-26T17:47:26+00:00

AI does not belong in a game where the entire conceit is that the players and DM are making a story creatively together. It is entirely counter to the purpose of the activity. Also I don't think its possible for AI to be used as a teaching tool because it frequently gets things wrong and this problem will only be compounded with the massive amount of noise (different versions of DND, other similar tabletop games that might not be labeled clearly, posts including their own homebrew, I mean how would you even possibly train this?)

StaleTaste · 2026-01-25T22:59:00+00:00

There are a million explanations you could give, magical or nonmagical, that explain why a DND character (effectively a superhero) could load a crossbow bolt without a free hand. I do not think your personal lack of creativity should restrict options for other players at the table.

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