D&D 5E Move over Fireball and Spirit Guardians, there is a new best 3rd level spell sheriff in town!

Ancalagon · Dec 6, 2017

flametitan said:
Really, the crazy thing about the spell is how well it scales. It starts at one tiny servant, but you get an additional two per level. Simply by upcasting it a single level you've tripled the power of this spell.

My friends, we have missed a portentous opportunity.

Based on this analysis, one would say that the "optimal" level to cast this spell is at level 4. This, on the surface, appears correct.

However, I had a dream last night, a vision (fever may have been involved). We were wrong, oh so wrong. The "best" spell slot level to cast this spell is not 4, it is 5? Why 5 you say? Because you get 5 servants? Why does this matter you say?

While this is not written in the book per say, I believe that once, as me, you have seen the light, you will realize that this clearly is the rule as intended, and that WotC will submit an errata at any moment now.

It's because the 5 tiny servants UNITE AND FORM VOLTRON!!!!

admit it - you see it now - the power, the BEAUTY!

Bennett · Apr 18, 2018

So, it can carry a potion to a fallen ally?

Ancalagon · Apr 18, 2018

Bennett said:
So, it can carry a potion to a fallen ally?

And so much more!

It could take your fallen ally's potions and bring them to you!

AriochQ · Apr 18, 2018

Valetudo said:
shanara does technically have cellphones.

I thought the same thing! I had read the books as a teen, and when I saw the entirely mediocre TV series I saw a rusted car and remembered that it was supposed to be a post-holocaust setting. I had totally forgotten about that part.

Pauper · Apr 18, 2018

Ancalagon said:
Fill one up with a dangerous substance and send it after your foes - even in death, the Tiny Servant will shower your enemies with acid - or worse!

This technically requires a sympathetic DM ruling, as Jeremy Crawford has clarified that spell effects do not count toward activating the 'on attack' effects of alchemists fire or acid:

Jeremy Crawford on Twitter said:
A DM might decide that a flask of alchemist's fire breaks as a result of something other than the attack in the flask's rule. If so, I recommend dealing the fire damage, but don't treat the delivery of that damage as an attack that hit, since no attack roll occurred.

The origin of this clarification is Crawford's observation that the Catapult spell does not deal damage from alchemists fire or acid if the spell is used to hurl a flask of those objects:

Jeremy Crawford on Twitter said:
The catapult spell deals only its damage, not the damage of an object you hurl with it. However, if you use the spell to hurl a breakable object, like a flask of alchemist's fire, the DM might rule that the thing does break. If so, follow the rules for the breakable object.

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Pauper

Ancalagon · Apr 18, 2018

Pauper said:
This technically requires a sympathetic DM ruling, as Jeremy Crawford has clarified that spell effects do not count toward activating the 'on attack' effects of alchemists fire or acid:

The origin of this clarification is Crawford's observation that the Catapult spell does not deal damage from alchemists fire or acid if the spell is used to hurl a flask of those objects:

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Pauper

Crawford has clearly never broken a jar full of angry bees.

Ancalagon · Jul 1, 2018

On this Canada Day (and soon to be July 4rth), I remind you all that you can use your Tiny servant to set off the fireworks. Safety folks!

... or make the firework *be* the tiny servant? Hmmmmmmm

Joebing69 · Jul 1, 2018

I see bad things coming involving a tiny servant carrying oil and a fireball spell. Very bad things.

(My players are pyromaniacs...as most chefs are)

Ancalagon · Jul 1, 2018

Joebing69 said:
I see bad things coming involving a tiny servant carrying oil and a fireball spell. Very bad things.

(My players are pyromaniacs...as most chefs are)

That's the spirit!

jgsugden · Jul 1, 2018

Joebing69 said:
I see bad things coming involving a tiny servant carrying oil and a fireball spell. Very bad things.

(My players are pyromaniacs...as most chefs are)

Delayed blast fireballl can be carried.

D&D 5E Move over Fireball and Spirit Guardians, there is a new best 3rd level spell sheriff in town!

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