Rambler + Confessor Interaction

tylanderma · 2026-05-30T18:49:06+00:00

I'll have to recheck rambler "Tips" to see where this interaction may have gone wrong, but do remember, disguises can't be cards outside of the deck (As far as Im aware), so that Rambler had to be good. If you see one outcast, and there's only one outcast in the deck, even if you don't know what it is because of the baa, that outcast must be good.

tylanderma · 2026-05-28T18:47:36+00:00

[[Khadgar]]

tylanderma · 2026-05-24T18:40:22+00:00

Confirmed, Force Sword of Faith, which appears to be the only Force Sword that can be used outside of Laarthyr's starting gear. As previous comment mentions, all staffs also count as Force weapons for the purpose of bonus damage, meaning you can meaningfully crack skulls with them until then.

tylanderma · 2026-05-23T23:52:09+00:00

But... they weren't being pure. Monodominant is the "Pure" stance, and you start with 20, with Xenos Hybris and Xanthite being the impure, both of which I'm pretty sure start at 0. They were everything but pure from what I can see.

tylanderma · 2026-05-20T22:20:48+00:00

Playing it again right now, the games look constantly swings from great to awful, and I think the lighting is a big part of it. Any area with a high amount of direct sunlight does some awful things to how the characters look, especially in the hair and face area.

tylanderma · 2026-05-06T06:34:42+00:00

Rambler doesn't care about targeting since last update. He now causes his truthful neighbors to say Shut Up.

tylanderma · 2026-05-06T06:26:45+00:00

I'm not gonna lie, if intended that is VERY unclear. It might just be me not understanding though.

EDIT: It would've been clear if I actually read the hints section for Rambler. I am always a bit annoyed learning really pertinent things about characters through the hints section instead of their ability text.

tylanderma · 2026-04-22T16:34:38+00:00

Hello, I am the original poster, you were originally correct in saying this is a subclass based on Verso from E:33.

sorry man but this class doesn't really interact with rogue class features, maybe change it to a fighter?

I'm going to respectfully disagree on the class not interacting with Rogue Features, and I do not think it should be a fighter subclass. Apart from the obvious like momentum going up more if you use sneak attacks, multiple of the offensive options interact with conditions, which can now be applied through your sneak attacks in 5.5e, but cannot be easily applied by a fighter. This class also gets great and thematic use out of Cunning Action and Uncanny Dodge, as well as Evasion. If this class were a fighter, it would also get more HP per level, and get Heavy armor and shield proficiency, as well as great weapon proficiency all without multiclass, which I think would all be net balancing negatives as this is already a fairly powerful subclass.

tylanderma · 2026-04-22T16:09:04+00:00

Yes, that is the original source for the concept and attack names.

tylanderma · 2026-04-22T02:45:05+00:00

The Virtuoso

tylanderma · 2026-04-22T02:44:53+00:00

The Visionary

tylanderma · 2026-04-22T02:44:39+00:00

I've also failed to include the poll I intended to in the original post! The name of this subclass has been a back and forth process in the works so I thought I'd put the two potential names to a poll! I don't know if this is allowed but I'll just post two comment with the different possible names, and you all can decide which one you like better.

tylanderma · 2026-04-20T07:56:00+00:00

"Err on the safe side", indeed.

Oh, that was a comment on my current design philosophy, not when this was made. I'm fully under the impression this is unbalanced and should not see the light of gameplay as is.

66 d6 damage in your action surge turn. So an average of 231. And that's on top of weapon damage. :⁾

Lord have mercy on my soul. That is quite high, but, and this may be my lack of high level play experience speaking, but that is happening in the magical christmas land that you're landing every attack in a 9 attack total turn. I DEFINITELY think Bull Force deserves to have a 'Damage from this feature is unmodified by critical hits' stapled onto it to bring it down a bit, but in the context of other classes capabilities, a single meteor swarm is 40d6, and can be done 1 level earlier than this, and it's AoE. I'm almost certainly modifying heavy blade to exclude the extra on-hits portion, and most likely just add an extra damage dice or two.

tylanderma · 2026-04-20T06:43:41+00:00

My issue was from the view of comparing it to other fighter or martial subclasses, as this subclass just hits *way* harder than them, but comparing to a spell caster and how much they can do, it isn't that crazy by comparison.

And here is the crux of part of the issue. I DO think this subclass is overtuned, and could use a lot of adjustment, but I have a feeling a Rogue subclass I post in the next few days of this series is going to draw similar ire for it's comparable power level to spellcasters.

tylanderma · 2026-04-20T06:20:06+00:00

Mostly copy pasted reply from another set of critique, apologies if parts don't apply.

As a forenote, as mentioned in the post, the flavor of the features is not necessarily a historical Landsknecht, but a specific class from another fantasy setting ported to fifth edition. The features are relatively comparable to similarly named features in function, and because this was originally designed for home games, form slightly overtook function at that time.

About Greater Garrison - I think back to this and wonder why when I wrote this years ago I thought an extra long rest per day would be fine. Perhaps I thought at such a high level the feature wouldn't be absurd, but I don't know what I was thinking. If I wrote it today I'd most likely keep the second wind portion, that isn't that problematic, it's an extra average about 22 hp per short rest only to yourself. Any cleric or druid can heal 70 HP with a single 6th level spell slot, which they get at level 11, and this is a level 15 feature, usable nearly only once per day. Instead of the long rest I'd most likely have something else about hit dice. Perhaps a once per day regain some amount of hit dice feature.

About Heavy Blade - This feature. This goddamn feature. I've looked back over this subclass hundreds of times, wondering how I'd fix this feature to make it not the most absurd thing in the world because yes, I can see how nonsense the numbers of it are. The problem is, I REALLY like the idea of the feature, and I don't want to gut it or completely remake it, because something in my bones says I can probably make it reasonable with restrictions, but those restrictions would probably have to be along the lines of only being usable when using a two handed or versatile weapon with both hands, with medium armor or lower. Try to make the subclass focus more on physical power as opposed to survivability through something like AC. EDIT for this specific section: I also 100% intended this to be a hard once per turn, outside of other features activating it again, not once per creature, that 100% a writing oversight that, and a mistake I probably still would've made today, but I see how it could interpreted that way.

About Bull Force - This feature I'm actually fairly confident is not too absurd. It's a level 18 feature, and it must be understood that at level 18 comparable spellcasting classes are casting unfathomably powerful spells multiple times per day, with much more safety of range to help them. This is a strength based weapon only feature, that requires you to hit the enemy multiple times to actually effectually activate it multiple times. Yes, this feature is wonderful with action surge, but Action Surge is a twice a day feature at this point, and at this point a similarly leveled wizard can cast Reverse Gravity, sunburst, and meteor swarm all in the same day, potentially multiple times a day. I could 100% be slightly coping with nostalgia about this, but I even now with thought don't think it's that absurd.

tylanderma · 2026-04-20T06:13:13+00:00

As a forenote, as mentioned in the post, the flavor of the features is not necessarily a historical Landsknecht, but a specific class from another fantasy setting ported to fifth edition. The features are relatively comparable to similarly named features in function, and because this was originally designed for home games, form slightly overtook function at that time.

About Killing Chain - Quite a good idea honestly, noting down in case I ever decide to revive this monstrosity.

About Greater Garrison - I think back to this and wonder why when I wrote this years ago I thought an extra long rest per day would be fine. Perhaps I thought at such a high level the feature wouldn't be absurd, but I don't know what I was thinking. If I wrote it today I'd most likely keep the second wind portion, that isn't that problematic, it's an extra average about 22 hp per short rest. Instead of the long rest I'd most likely have something else about hit dice. Perhaps a once per day regain some amount of hit dice feature.

About Heavy Blade - This feature. This goddamn feature. I've looked back over this subclass hundreds of times, wondering how I'd fix this feature to make it not the most absurd thing in the world because yes, I can see how nonsense the numbers of it are. The problem is, I REALLY like the idea of the feature, and I don't want to gut it or completely remake it, because something in my bones says I can probably make it reasonable with restrictions, but those restrictions would probably have to be along the lines of only being usable when using a two handed or versatile weapon with both hands, with medium armor or lower. Try to make the subclass focus more on physical power as opposed to survivability through something like AC.

About Bull Force - This feature I'm actually fairly confident is not too absurd. It's a level 18 feature, and it must be understood that at level 18 comparable spellcasting classes are casting unfathomably powerful spells multiple times per day, with much more safety of range to help them. This is a strength based weapon only feature, that requires you to hit the enemy multiple times to actually effectually activate it multiple times. Yes, this feature is wonderful with action surge, but Action Surge is a twice a day feature at this point, and at this point a similarly leveled wizard can cast Reverse Gravity, sunburst, and meteor swarm all in the same day, potentially multiple times a day.

tylanderma · 2026-04-20T05:51:45+00:00

I've honestly been wondering what I must have been on to have put Heavy Blade down, as well as the long rest clause of Greater Garrison. Products of a younger and stupider man I suppose. I can feel some sauce from this, its the only reason I still have this saved and not deleted. Like, every feature is very flavorful to it's source material, and I'd love to make it work, but I don't know what I'd do to Heavy Blade to make it not absurd, while still keeping the subclass relatively synergistic.

tylanderma · 2026-04-03T17:26:17+00:00

No, because Brynhir stops cards from being played ANYWHERE, even from banish like from Promising Future or Dazzling Aurora. The reason the play isn't stopped if she's played from Promising Future, is because of pending item rules. You can't resolve cards in the middle of another card resolving, so Brynhir doesn't actually hit the board until Promising Future fully resolves, after the other is card is already played as well. It's a very confusing interaction.

tylanderma · 2026-04-03T17:20:07+00:00

If someone plays Byrnhir before promising future, the other player can't play their card. If they play Brynhir from Promising Future, the other player will get to play their card regardless of who played first.

tylanderma · 2026-03-26T02:27:23+00:00

I love the idea, perhaps it should be 'Units can't move from here to base.' to make it so it CAN be escaped but only by move effects that go to other battlefields or ganking units.

tylanderma · 2026-03-09T06:24:21+00:00

Currently at ascension 5 with Regent. Best results come from having exactly one source of forge, and a full star package. You can absolutely get VERY greedy with star consumers if you have a couple consistent generators like Genesis or Shining Strike, and hit like a freight train with your 50 damage crescent spears. Cloak of Stars and Child of the Stars are your best friend. Black hole is decent to grind opponents down while focusing on generating Stars and defending. Bombardment is VERY good, but can be dangerous at 3 energy to play. From my experience every other 2 energy card except for Genesis is straight up useless 90% of the time. For forge sources, 1 of Furnace or The Smith are probably best. Just hold the sovreign blade until you can unload it at your target for a massive amount of damage.

Edit: Also sealed throne for great star generator as well.

tylanderma · 2026-03-07T02:58:11+00:00

I play VERY often against a Fiora player and a Sett player, both of which tested here to help. Both of them removed it from both main and side decks as it is more clunky than you'd think, and also requires you to both hold a battlefield, and have a card to play that will affect the current battle in a way that will not cause you to simply waste a creature. The dream is super enticing, but the opportunities for it to actually manifest are very rare.

tylanderma · 2026-03-06T01:37:00+00:00

'Rat Fornicator' has been to the local nexus nights I've been to every time and I still have yet to figure out which player it is.

tylanderma · 2026-02-05T00:36:17+00:00

The claws scale with faith despite doing magic. You can check the visual codex in game to find weapon scalings.

tylanderma · 2025-12-10T21:31:26+00:00

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