#dndnext

Well hello there party people and non party people and non people partiers etc etc. Welcome to a new not quite action packed but still fantastical and fun brand new Nerdsday. Won’t faff about too much with rambling today and just get right on to the strip and faff about down there. LETS GO!!

* Warforged Fighter * Take the Tunneler fighting style from the “Light, Dark, Underdark!” UA * Take the Echo Knight specialization at level 3 (from Explorers of Wildemount) * Take the Polearm Master feat at level 4 * Take the Sentinel feat at level 6 * Use a glaive (1d10+3 if you allocated stats well) At level 6, here’s what you can do: * you get unlimited opportunity attacks for you and your echo * in spaces up to 40ft wide, you can entirely block enemy movement (by placing you and your echo 20ft apart and each using a reach weapon), in that each enemy will have to spend two turns trying to get past you, with up to 2 opportunity attacks taken against them each turn. * in spaces that are 20ft wide or smaller, you will get up to 4 opportunity attacks against them before they can pass * during each turn, if the enemy is still in your zone of control, you can use action surge, extra attack, and one of your echo attacks to hit an enemy another 5 times. So theoretically, over an enemy’s movement through your zone of control: You’ve prevented an enemy from moving more than two squares per turn, and by the time they’ve escaped you, you’ve done up to 26d10+39 damage to them, not including crits.

Back when I still lived in Ohio, my stepfather ran a heavily modified Princes of the Apocalypse campaign for our 5e group.  At one point, we encountered a sealed, magical door in an abandoned elven keep in which a shard of a long-dead elf’s soul had been embedded to serve as a guardian.

The whole group was pretty bummed when we realized that she was a conscious entity that had been trapped there for hundreds of years, and not just a pre-programmed magical construct, until we came up with the idea to free her.  See, the whole place was overrun by pretty typical skeleton minions without a soul, and she was a pretty typical soul without a body.  Problem A, meet Solution B.

After we managed to rip her out of the door and implant her into one of the skeletons, we made her an official member of our party.  The DM let me take over for her stats (which was a nightmare, albeit a lovely one, because at this point I was managing four separate characters for this group) and I decided to make her a College of Lore bard.  She was a few levels below us for the rest of the campaign, but her support proved invaluable on more than one occasion.