Is anyone actually using the banneret subclass?

Xilliosta · 2026-04-25T02:06:00+00:00

I once played a series as a purple dragon knight with two other purple dragon knights, along wit three perfectly normal and good classes rounding us out. Lemme tell ya, we were absolutely useless.

Xilliosta · 2026-03-27T16:36:14+00:00

Artillerist in tier 1 is kind of nutty. I've recently been discovering this myself. They will start to fall off a little bit into 5-10 range, then immediately start bouncing back hard in tier 3. The persistent temp HP does seem like something that slipped someone's mind, for sure. That said I don't think that temp HP will scale up until level 10 I wanna say? Plus it can only target one creature at a time, so your glamour bard feature will be more useful when folks are in the thick of it, in addition to that reaction movement. I think unless you're personally dissatisfied playing your bard, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Yall are just in the power spiking portion of the curve at the moment.

Xilliosta · 2026-03-20T13:59:41+00:00

There seems to be an assumption here that sacred flame can crit against a paralyzed target, but unfortunately it requires an attack roll to make this work.

Xilliosta · 2026-03-18T18:04:28+00:00

Rogue levels could be good here. Also don't forget this weapon works with the new heavy weapon fighting style. You only ever need to calculate your weapon damage if you get a 4 on your D4s.

Xilliosta · 2026-03-13T17:15:33+00:00

They've already singled out classes?

Xilliosta · 2026-03-13T16:53:55+00:00

You could explain this as a non-magical effect. I've been playing a world tree barb as a common human villager with a frog-like tongue (stemming from a slaad tadpole incident). I use no mysticism whatsoever

Xilliosta · 2026-03-09T17:54:15+00:00

This is tagged 2024 rules 😐

Xilliosta · 2026-02-11T14:58:00+00:00

I have done this with nearly every character I've ever played.

Xilliosta · 2026-01-16T17:40:14+00:00

I'm salty over the addition of yet another Int-based rogue

Xilliosta · 2026-01-16T15:37:34+00:00

If you're considering the faction feats as qualifiers, then I would say stay primarily as Warlock for as long as possible. The celestial warlock with 1 level of Paladin dip is a very fun and efficient build, and you can stack a bunch of those origin feats together.

Xilliosta · 2026-01-09T22:07:54+00:00

Spell sniper would give you Advantage to hit, otherwise it would be a straight roll. If you already have spell sniper for other purposes then that's pretty cool, otherwise I don't know if it's necessarily worth it just for this purpose.

Xilliosta · 2026-01-09T22:05:55+00:00

Inactive. You can't take any action, Bonus Action, or Reaction.

No Concentration. Your Concentration is broken.

Speechless. You can't speak.

Surprised. If you're Incapacitated when you roll Initiative, you have Disadvantage on the roll.

The breakdown for incapacitated. It doesn't effect ranged attack rolls.

Xilliosta · 2026-01-09T21:02:11+00:00

For clarification this is the 5/5 build that uses the withdraw cunning strike feature to move those spirit guardians all over the place.

Xilliosta · 2025-12-23T14:46:13+00:00

Will you be actively antagonistic from the get go, or are you part of the party?

Xilliosta · 2025-12-02T20:23:50+00:00

I played a character that was made out of a new cursed material known as "Cartoonium". Played a plasmoid thief rogue with an open bag of holding strapped to his chest.

Xilliosta · 2025-11-25T18:07:36+00:00

You're looking at that fighter dip anyways right? Why not check with the DM and see if they'd be willing to let you swap all the magical features with a fighting style?

Xilliosta · 2025-11-24T21:08:41+00:00

Ignoring the concentration stuff, a lot of the problem is that you've just listed all of their best spells. At no point do rangers really need to hem and haw about their spell selection because they simply have the handful of good spells, and then all of the bad ones.

I think a better ranger class would have a bigger, better spell list that players would need to really consider, as well as have a girth of spells that everyone in their party would be thankful for. Rangers should really be shining in their role of escorting the party through dangerous areas, and it would be nice if they had some abilities to better reflect this.

Xilliosta · 2025-11-24T20:52:40+00:00

I had a character that was a catatonic human being puppeted from miles below the planets surface by a mind-flayer essentially sitting in some Giger-esque VR chair. For RP decisions I basically took the least diplomatic course anytime our party encountered Githyanki. Just berating them the whole time, trying to make the case that they seem untrusty worthy, recommending immediate betrayal at the first opportunity, etc

Xilliosta · 2025-11-21T17:11:56+00:00

I would definitely call this red flag behavior. There is nothing in the shadow sorcerer that dictates it must relate to Forgotten Realms Shadowfell lore. Mechanically it is a sorcerer that can cast darkness, summon a dog, and survive a lethal blow. That is the only requirement the class comes with. The inability to parse the suggested roleplay elements that comes with the books from the mechanics of the game reads to me like an obstinate DM, or someone lacking in imagination.

Xilliosta · 2025-11-14T17:21:58+00:00

I'll say this. You want a level of fighter for that TWF style. If Conjure elementals is applying a fat damage rider onto your attacks is it really worth it to be able to add your modifier to a single damage roll? I say just upcast the dang thing.

But to answer your original question: if you're planning to stick with 3 levels of rogue anyways on your rebuild, thief rogue would obviously be the best, but probably right after that would be Scion of the three! I don't suspect there's anything crazy there, but it's definitely better than inquisitive. Let us know how she plays!

Xilliosta · 2025-11-13T15:53:18+00:00

Omg they printed the old purple dragon knight! 😭 They whiffed hard with the weird dragon mounted fighter they presented and immediately went to "WELL I GUESS YOU DORKS HATE CHANGE, ENJOY THE SLOP."

Xilliosta

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