I feel like true polymorph is the best way to hide something. You have a creature gear up with whatever you are hiding and then true polymorph it into an object. Then you do the same thing over and over again and it would require multiple high level magic users with dispel magic to get to the center of the tootsy-roll pop.
For CR 9, if you concentrate for an hour you can have available ... a .. Glabrezu, Bone Devil, Young Blue Dragon, Young Silver Dragon, Cloud Giant, Fire Giant, Clay Golem, Treant,
> And of course, the ever popular T Rex at CR 8 and Giant Ape at CR 7. .
Side note, in a campaign I just reached level 5 with my Sorcerer, and I'm really lost on which 3rd level spell to take. I'm Silver Draconic Bloodline, so my cold spells will be stronger when I reach 6th level. Also, I'm a blaster and focus on combat spells mostly, while our Wizard focuses utility and battlefield control. My metamagics are Empowered Spell and Quickened Spell. Any suggestions?
Oh by the way, I want to avoid taking fireball if at all possible.
My sorcerer does not use any fire spells, due to a strong dislike of heat.
Think of it, you conjure just a giant snowball and hurl it at a point in range. DEX save or XdY cold damage and maybe slightly reduced movement (less overall damage to balance if so) on a failed save or half damage and no other penalty on a successful save
My spells as of now are: Cantrips- Mending, Message, Frostbite, Ray of Frost, Shocking Grasp. 1st- Chaos Bolt, Disguise Self, Ice Knife, Feather Fall. 2nd- Snilloc's Snowball Swarm.
I realize snowball swarm is kind of a bad spell, but I took it for thematic purposes.
I just like chaos bolt, it feels sorcerer-y. It's only 1 average damage weaker than chromatic orb, and has a chance to leap as well (the chance increases if I use empowered metamagic)
Not saying it's great, but it's a fun spell in my opinion.
@Akira_Kurusu Silver dragon screams sleet storm for me. Too bad you don't have sculpting or careful or whatever the one is that can carve out allies, though.
I really want to take sleet storm, but I feel it would be a big detriment to our melee fighters. Since I took the blasty metamagics, it would severely weaken the battlefield control element.
@GcL Are you talking about the gust cantrip, or the gust of wind 2nd level spell?
So my wife's company is doing their holiday party at a bowling alley and apparently we're getting team shirts with names on them. I'm going to go with Munson.
Studded leather makes sense, considering it has 14 DEX for +2 AC, meaning the armor should have 11. Studded leather is 12+DEX normally, so scrapped version would have 1 less AC
A wizard has just killed a group of heavily armored fighters with great weapons. He uses Animate Dead on the bodies. The spell reads as:
This spell creates an undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a fou...
"You touch a willing creature who isn't wearing armor, and a protective magical force surrounds it until the spell ends. The target's base AC becomes 13 + its Dexterity modifier. The spell ends if the target dons armor or if you dismiss the spell as an action."
There are creatures, such as the hunter shark, which has a 40-foot swim speed and a 0-foot "normal/walking" speed; it's longest range attack is 5 feet. Does this mean you could (by some means) drag this creature onto land, and then stab it with a reach weapon?
To me this is just somewhat of a di...
Yeah, I too keep forgetting that Mage Armor can be cast on allies.
It's such a niche spell for anyone that's not a spellcaster, though.
Or at least not a Wizard/Sorcerer/Rogue/Warlock, since pretty much everyone else has better methods to gain armor, and of that group, the only one that can't get it without a specific subclass (Rogue) can still halve the damage they take anyways.
@NautArch to break up that bug bear group you need a fear spell/cause fear to many so that some of them run off. Then defeat them in detail. or fog cloud: obscure half of the battle field for a few rounds, and defeat two smaller groups of bug bears. Or hypnotic pattern or color spray. (IIRC, there is an Ancients Paladin abilth that does something like that, but it may only be against fey)
It turns out that, for the new campaign I joined over the weekend, all of us (myself included) are a bunch of edgelords. First thing we did when the session started was each go to the tavern and find a dark corner to brood in.
Which is kind of difficult in a party of 7 PCs.
The tavern is gonna have to start renting out its dark corners.
@KorvinStarmast We also made the mistake of allowing our Tortle Fighter to lead the way out of Saltmarsh. We went in the complete opposite direction of where we were supposed to go. I feel so bad for the DM. 7 players and none of us are competent enough to actually get the plot rolling.
@Xirema As DM, I find that plot isn't important. ;) if the players wander off, work with them or drop a few clues for a potential change in direction .... but, if they fiddle for too long, Rome may eventually burn around them.
Just last night, he slipped trying to grab onto something and hit his chin..... which then chomped down on his tongue. He's only had top teeth for like a month
I think this question is technically a dupe of this question about average outcome, but it's hard to read, so I'll answer again here.
Disadvantage is worth more than a bonus of 2 (usually)
On average, disadvantage (or advantage) is worth about a five-point difference on the die roll. Five is mo...
In the Neverwinter Nights video game series (I'm more familiar with NWN2 specifically, which was based on D&D 3.5e), there were two spells, "Isaac's Lesser Missile Storm" and "Isaac's Greater Missile Storm". They were both (as I understand it) basically bigger, better magic missile, but with rand...
@NautArch METT-T = Mission, Equipment, Terrain, Troops and Time. Military term used when doing an assessment of what you can do tactically, etc. If you have seen A Princess Bride, before they stormed the castle, you can say that Westley went through that process very quickly, which is when the Holocaust cloak was produced. :-)
A wizard has just killed a group of heavily armored fighters with great weapons. He uses Animate Dead on the bodies. The spell reads as:
This spell creates an undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a fou...
I think this question is technically a dupe of this question about average outcome, but it's hard to read, so I'll answer again here.
Disadvantage is worth more than a bonus of 2 (usually)
On average, disadvantage (or advantage) is worth about a five-point difference on the die roll. Five is mo...
