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DnD’s rules giving all of martial’s coolest tools to casters isn’t new, and shuffling the action economy around hasn’t made it any better.
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Attacking and casting a cantrip in the
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same turn isn't really new to the Gish
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experience in 5v, but it has changed in
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the 2024 rules. In the 2014 rules,
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especially in the players handbook, Gish
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subasses generally got the ability to
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attack and then cast a spell as a bonus
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action or cast a spell and then attack
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as a bonus action. We can look at the
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Valorbard and the Eldrich Knight as
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examples. In the 2024 rules, it's much
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more normal for gishes to get extra
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attack and then be able to replace one
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of their attacks with casting a cantrip
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or potentially even a leveled spell. A
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big part of that is just their evolution
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in how the design team understands bonus
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actions to work because they went into
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the 2014 rules with a wildly incorrect
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assumption about how bonus actions would
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work and how they would function at the
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table. Mike Marles has talked about this
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on socials quite a bit, but basically
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bonus actions were there to limit
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multiclassing from becoming too
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powerful. It didn't work. It did not do
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that at all. And they were called bonus
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actions because there were supposed to
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be a rare bonus that only a few things
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could give you. And that also didn't
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happen. So, with a better understanding
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of the game and 10 years of experience
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with the rule set, the 2024 rules
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reapproached how how Gishes would handle
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things and how they would use their
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bonus actions and stuff. But in terms of
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comparing Gishes to Marshall characters,
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like giving them extra attack and then
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letting them trade out an attack for a
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cantrip, which is probably going to be
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true strike and which is therefore just
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better than a single attack. Yes, gishes
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are just better at attacking than
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marshall characters, but as has long
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been the case in Dn D, spellcasters are
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just better than marshall characters,
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and they have been for a very long time.
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So
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yeah, kind of comes with the game
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unfortunately.
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