Looking over the kobold ability to roar doesn’t really make sense to me. The frightful presence of adult dragons cause a frightened condition. While this tiny kobold gets advantage on attacks. It doesn’t really seem to fit along the same lines especially without any kind of save against the effect. Samurai gaining advantage by expending a bonus action makes sense for the class because of the strenuous mental training that they do.
Yeah, I get the idea of it being a sort of mini-rightful presence, but I think you're right that it's a little too good. For one thing, it's not directed at a single enemy, but rather, at any enemy within a 10ft Radius of the Kobold, and it not only does it grant you advantage on all attacks against all enemies in that radius, but also extends that advantage to all of your allies until the End of your next turn... essentially giving yourself two rounds of advantage if you start your turn with the roar (and why wouldn't you?"
As-is, I think if it was a one-a-day ability it would be still be S-tier, but not completely broken. But being able to do it a number of times equal to Proficiency per day makes it on par with a lot of high-level subclass abilities. This kind of thing seems like it would be a capstone ability for some barbarian subclass or something... Hell, it's kind of like a lateral shift compared to the Zealot Barbarian's 10th level ability.
Still, the point of UA is to experiment with things like this to see how they actually play out at the table. I'm certain this will get nerfed if it actually gets released as official content. I'd say if you give it a saving throw, have it target just one creature, and only make it last until the start of your next turn then it would be a top class ability, but not one that completely outshines class abilities.
Looking over the kobold ability to roar doesn’t really make sense to me. The frightful presence of adult dragons cause a frightened condition. While this tiny kobold gets advantage on attacks. It doesn’t really seem to fit along the same lines especially without any kind of save against the effect. Samurai gaining advantage by expending a bonus action makes sense for the class because of the strenuous mental training that they do.
Yeah, I get the idea of it being a sort of mini-rightful presence, but I think you're right that it's a little too good. For one thing, it's not directed at a single enemy, but rather, at any enemy within a 10ft Radius of the Kobold, and it not only does it grant you advantage on all attacks against all enemies in that radius, but also extends that advantage to all of your allies until the End of your next turn... essentially giving yourself two rounds of advantage if you start your turn with the roar (and why wouldn't you?"
As-is, I think if it was a one-a-day ability it would be still be S-tier, but not completely broken. But being able to do it a number of times equal to Proficiency per day makes it on par with a lot of high-level subclass abilities. This kind of thing seems like it would be a capstone ability for some barbarian subclass or something... Hell, it's kind of like a lateral shift compared to the Zealot Barbarian's 10th level ability.
Still, the point of UA is to experiment with things like this to see how they actually play out at the table. I'm certain this will get nerfed if it actually gets released as official content. I'd say if you give it a saving throw, have it target just one creature, and only make it last until the start of your next turn then it would be a top class ability, but not one that completely outshines class abilities.
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