For that player maybe. Stepping on the toes of the other specialists in the group seems like a not great situation. At least, it's never played out very well for my tables.
I think they get a neat spirit guide theme as well. Like some famous ancestor guides them or something of that nature. I do very little with the Valenar in my campaigns.
The Modrons have the following trait:
Axiomatic Mind. The [modron] can't be compelled to act in a manner contrary to its nature or its instructions.
What does this mean?
It sounds to me like nonphysical means fail to make it act in a contrary manner. It is pretty clear that persuasion and intim...
At 12, I got CHA to damage, which made it 5d4+24 for 36.5 average damage on all hits.
If I got the +1/+1 Invocation of got a +1 DBS (which I eventually got) and maxed my CHA, it would be 42.5 average damage on all hits, which is marginally better than Eldritch Blast, at least 1 level earlier.
@Axoren That's about the same trade off then. I think the halflings got boomerangs and dino riding, while the valenar got badass horse riding and double ended swords. Everyone else had to take a feat to get those.
Maybe I'll write a short one shot "Horse of a different Color" about a border dispute between Talenta Halfings and Valenar Elves. Dinos vs horses.
@Axoren How many minor nobles did that rogue swindle? Because if you and a bard can't get them in on the ponzi scheme, your little nation is definitely going to fail.
I like the DMG chase rules. They make a lot more sense when the fleeing party is specifically avoiding participating in combat and such precautions and solely focused on fleeing. Same for the chaser.
@ThomasMarkov No, because (1) it's mindless, so it doesn't know any spells, (2) it's shapeless, so it can't perform somatic or verbal components, and (3) it has no spell slots.
@MarkWells for me, it's kind of a slippery slope thing. I think if a player starting using an unseen servant in combat, i'd have to think about it. If you can use an action to administer a potion, why not use an action to activate a magic item?
And that's a path I'd prefer not to go down, so i'd probably rule against a lot of these types of things for unseen servant. But the potion thing? Yeha, if you can be lucky enough to get it to work and it stays up, i see little reason to say no to that.
@MarkWells The idea was that even though the Unseen Servant is already invisible, if you could cast Invisibility on it, then it would make what it's holding invisible.
@Axoren only if it's a creature. If you cast invisible on an object, the object they're holding don't necessarily become invisible. E.g. casting invisible on a table gets you "floating" china.
@MarkWells wall of force creates an object. You can interact with the unseen servant.... it's tangible. The only issue it has with being an object by the rules is that it's not inanimate.
Yeah, it's not the same. But it could be just as good in times where you need to hide an object. It's invisible if you can't see it. To that degree Blindness/Deafness also works.
Summon a creature that can cast invisibility and hold an item?
@GcL Is it tangible? I read "shapeless" as meaning it literally has no shape, that there's no volume of space it occupies, but maybe it has no specific shape, like an ooze.
The Modrons have the following trait:
Axiomatic Mind. The [modron] can't be compelled to act in a manner contrary to its nature or its instructions.
What does this mean?
It sounds to me like nonphysical means fail to make it act in a contrary manner. It is pretty clear that persuasion and intim...
