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The RPGBOT team is small, but does great work
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Jun 5, 2025
The RPGBOT team is small, but does great work, including editing the absolute crimes against literature that I produce without their help. 95% of the content on the site is my writing, but I still consider it a team effort because having support has made our content so much better!
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there's two questions in this comment
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and I'm going to try to answer both So
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the first question is how large is the
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RPGbot team specifically the folks
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working on the 5e content and the second
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question is just more of an explanation
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on how we rate different character
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options So first question is actually
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pretty simple The RPGbot team is pretty
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small Um and it's it's really just my
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friends who I've picked up over time uh
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folks who I've been doing character
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optimization with for years Random and
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Roco are two of our most prominent
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writers other than me and they've
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written some absolutely great subclass
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handbooks Um Ash and Randall my podcast
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co-hosts they also do some writing for
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the site occasionally but not not a ton
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honestly Uh like 95% of the content on
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the site if if you go by word count or
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page count or whatever is just me So the
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vast majority of the time what you're
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reading on the site is me But any
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article you go to there's an author by
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line at the top and there's a little
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author blurb down at the bottom so you
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can see who on the team wrote that
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specific page For the ratings on how we
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assess different character options we do
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the four-step rating system and it's
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very intentional So blue is the best
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green is good orange is sometimes good
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red is bad Uh and the reason we don't do
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like five or more tiers is there's very
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intentionally not a middle tier There's
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no just okay It's good or it isn't
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Blu-rated options are things that you're
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going to use frequently and that are
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going to have a good impact on the game
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So fireball is a great example because
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there are a lot of situations in Dn D
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where you have a clustered group of
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enemies that fit within that area and
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you'll be able to do a lot of damage
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with fireball reliably as a result
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Green-rated options are things that will
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be frequently useful but maybe not all
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the time Things that might be useful all
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the time but aren't always having a huge
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impact So like you'll get a lot of value
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out of those green rated options but
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it's not something that you can
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typically build your character around
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and rely on 100% of the time Orangeed
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options are situationally useful That
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doesn't necessarily mean that they're
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bad just that you won't get consistent
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use out of them So these are situational
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utility spells uh abilities that respond
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to specific creature types or specific
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circumstances that don't come up all the
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time Depending on how your character is
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built you may be able to get a lot of
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use out of those orange rated options
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But in a game where you get very very
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few decision points you have to choose
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between something that's going to be
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useful every single time you play or
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something that's going to be useful
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maybe like once every other session And
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given the choice usually you're going to
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go for those higher rated options
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because they'll get more value
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Red-rated options are options that very
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very rarely contribute to the game or
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that when they do contribute to the game
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the impact is
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