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What's so good about the "blade" cantrips?
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<blockquote data-quote="smbakeresq" data-source="post: 7397273" data-attributes="member: 28301"><p>I use them with certain cleric and bard builds to fill a character idea. For example right now I am playing a Dragonborn Bard in a Greyhawk Campaign with 1 level of life cleric and then lore bard rest of way. The idea is she was pushed into the clergy on Dragons Island in but then realized the way to spread the word about her people was to wander the lands and collect and retell the stories of others. Of course being a dragonborn and worshipping dragons means you are built for combat, so a skald seems like the best idea. Dragonborn are majestic of course of course so Bard makes sense also. </p><p></p><p>So I took BB as a spell secret to keep going with that theme and the energy theme of dragons and dragonborn. Its thematic also to smack someone with an attack that also blasts them with energy and is flashy. It also works with Warcaster feat and then Dissonant Whispers (you can use BB for the OPP ATT and get the damage bonus right away as you scream foul oaths at them) and also use it for the OPP ATT generated by Command (flee.)</p><p></p><p>The other blade spells are ok but they put this PC (and others that get into melee but really are not built for it) into range of more than one enemy which is bad for you. Lightning Lure is poor since other cantrips do more and pulling isn't that great or useable. It isn't a blade spell but in the same section so I put it here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smbakeresq, post: 7397273, member: 28301"] I use them with certain cleric and bard builds to fill a character idea. For example right now I am playing a Dragonborn Bard in a Greyhawk Campaign with 1 level of life cleric and then lore bard rest of way. The idea is she was pushed into the clergy on Dragons Island in but then realized the way to spread the word about her people was to wander the lands and collect and retell the stories of others. Of course being a dragonborn and worshipping dragons means you are built for combat, so a skald seems like the best idea. Dragonborn are majestic of course of course so Bard makes sense also. So I took BB as a spell secret to keep going with that theme and the energy theme of dragons and dragonborn. Its thematic also to smack someone with an attack that also blasts them with energy and is flashy. It also works with Warcaster feat and then Dissonant Whispers (you can use BB for the OPP ATT and get the damage bonus right away as you scream foul oaths at them) and also use it for the OPP ATT generated by Command (flee.) The other blade spells are ok but they put this PC (and others that get into melee but really are not built for it) into range of more than one enemy which is bad for you. Lightning Lure is poor since other cantrips do more and pulling isn't that great or useable. It isn't a blade spell but in the same section so I put it here. [/QUOTE]
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