Ruin Explorer
Legend
Nope. It explicitly replaces one attack.
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D&D 5E Pimp Slapping the Wizard!: A little math
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Nope. It explicitly replaces one attack.
Hmm. This will make the Battlemaster (or whatever they end up calling it) Fighter really quite powerful - since they can use their abilities to knock people prone as part of another attack (and do more damage, as well).
(The plausibly-real leaked pages that have been linked to on rpg.net make the Battlemaster look extremely interesting, to me. I'll definitely have to try one out at some point, if they turn out to be accurate)
That math is fine, but it doesn't work for a level 20 wizard.
Level 1, so not only can they cast it 4 times with their level 1 slots, but 4 times with their level 2, and so on. And it lasts the whole round, so it applies to every attack. So if you want to run the number against a level 20 wizard, you should assume AC 21.
Level 1, so not only can they cast it 4 times with their level 1 slots, but 4 times with their level 2, and so on. And it lasts the whole round, so it applies to every attack. So if you want to run the number against a level 20 wizard, you should assume AC 21.
Opportunity cost.
If a character of mine ever made a Wizard use up a 2nd level spell slot in order to turn a hit into a miss, I'd smile. The wizard just used up an opportunity to cast Hold Person, Flaming Spehere, etc.
If a Wizard ever used up a 3rd-level slot, I'd celebrate. That's an 8d6 fireball that won't be coming at me.
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Nebulous
Legend
Why don't they want copy/paste on a freely distributed pdf? I don't know legalese very well.
Obryn
Hero
The opportunity cost of a 1st level spell to a 20th level wizard is basically nil.
I can't think of a better use for a 1st than Shield, actually.
Actually, it's more a function of the type of font used. I know that when I was creating pdfs with a custom font for work, despite enabling copy/paste, it had some weird character mapping that made it come out as gibberish when you used copy/paste.
It's likely not intentional, just that pdfs do really, really weird things from time to time.
Cheers!
But this isn't just turning a single hit into a miss. This is turning that shove into a miss, and thus denying advantage on each of the subsequent attacks. That might be worth the opportunity cost.
Obryn
Hero
Not to mention turning the rest of the attacks into misses, too. +5 to AC for the whole round is huge.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Does the shove attack AC, though? As I read it, AC is entirely irrelevant to the shove, thus said Wizard can do that but does it actually do anything?
