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Is this revision of the level 2 Transmutation Wizard feature balanced? [Version 2]

Incredible cheese Starting at 2nd level when you select this school, you can temporarily [...] change it from one substance into another. [...] may use your action to perform a special alchemical ...
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Is this revision of the level 2 Transmutation Wizard feature balanced? [Version 2]

This is still is exploitable You improved this by getting rid of having multiple features. For the main feature, Minor Alchemy however, in a way this is worse than the first version. Let's remove the ...
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Is this Visions of Danger spell balanced for level 7?

This should probably be a level 8 spell There are multiple factors influencing how good a pure damage spell is to deliver impact: area, range, the raw damage output per round, how fast that damage is ...
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Fire Immunity as a racial feat

This is powerful, but I would not spend a feat on it As Nobody points out, this is effectively equivalent to fire immunity. But fire immunity is very situational. Yes, fire monsters are common -- but ...
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Is this Visions of Danger spell balanced for level 7?

Not strictly a numerical balance thing but "as an action" type recurring saves don't look like a very good fit for illusion type effects. After all, if the target fails the initial saving ...
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Is this Visions of Danger spell balanced for level 7?

Let's compare to Maddening Darkness, an 8th level spell that I consider a good 8th level spell. MD: 60 ft radius, significantly larger 8d8 psychic versus Wisdom save Magical Darkness VoD: 20 ft ...
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Fire Immunity as a racial feat

This is too strong for a normal feat This still is effectively immunity That you need to use a bonus action to activate the immunity does make it somewhat weaker than plain immunity, for example it ...
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Is this revision of the level 2 Transmutation Wizard feature balanced?

Beware of classes' themes. Beside the excellent points raised in this answer, there is one more issue, related to the class theme. Both features grant options that are thematically linked to cleric ...
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Is this revision of the level 2 Transmutation Wizard feature balanced?

This can be exploited and has too many features Because you state that your explicit intent is to make this subclass stronger, the benchmark for balanced you are looking for is: is this balanced ...
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What level should this version of Warp Mind be?

8th level, like feeblemind, would probably be best Ignoring the pedigree here, and just looking at the pure effect. The text of this is not only modeled after, it is essentially identical to ...
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Is this Electrifying Body spell thematic and balanced? (V2)

I think overall that spell is reasonable. Here I am mostly nitpicking. You can cast Electric Arc as an innate spell. When you cast Electric Arc, you can choose up to three targets. The main issue I ...
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Is this Electrifying Body spell thematic and balanced? (V2)

Swim Seems Out of Place Most elementals that deal electricity damage seem to be similar to storm clouds as air elementals like the living thunderclap, which generally have fly speeds rather than swim ...
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Is this Electrifying Body spell thematic and balanced? (V2)

This looks pretty balanced now Sligthly reordering for better comparability Fiery Body Electric Body Level: 7 same Cast: 2 actions (somatic, verbal) same Duration: 1 minute same You become living ...
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Is this Changeling homebrew race balanced?

This is not balanced and has a few minor issues First, if you take the book races to be the standard of balance, then almost by definition, if you buff an existing book race to be more powerful, it ...
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How does this homebrew Chromatic Domain compare to published domains?

I like the theme on this one. You've asked: Does the Acolyte of the Dragon Queen reaction need a per-rest limit to limit its power, or is the possibility of guessing wrong enough of a limit on its ...
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Is this "Mentar" homebrew race balanced?

Perpetual Hover may be problematic. There are some good broader answers and you'd asked for a specific focus on Perpetual Hover, so this answer is specific to that. Perpetual Hover needs ...
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Is this "Mentar" homebrew race balanced?

This is balanced against book races Using Detect Balance, a tool that has pooled a lot of community input to grade the power of various racial abilities on a point scale, with balanced against printed ...
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Is this "Mentar" homebrew race balanced?

This is in line with most playable races Ability by Ability Comparison Psychic Resistance - A single resistance is present on many playable races. Tiefling has fire resistance, which is a more common ...
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