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Now you're infected by the Musical Doodle
I think it got Errata'd at some point, but the version I'm reading pretty clearly states that you only get the disease after you fail the three saves.
Yep just doublechecked the errataed version myself. So now its a 3 round minimum poisoned condition on a successful hit (aka a fight in many cases).I think it got Errata'd at some point, but the version I'm reading pretty clearly states that you only get the disease after you fail the three saves.
Unfortunately, it's also a bit of a nerf in that it has no effect on enemies immune to the poisoned condition. Which is a fairly common immunity.There is nothing in the Contagion spell referencing the poisoned condition.
The what to the who now? I'm still running out of first printing books. That's one heck of an errata. So I take it back. Since they made Contagion actually do something for the first three rounds, it's not completely terrible any more.
I think bladeward can be pretty useful for a bladesinger.True Strike, Blade Ward, Witch Bolt, Mordenkainen's Sword are the ones that immediately come to mind.
To start with are you suggesting a casting time as a bonus action or cast as an action, then take dodge as a BA. If it is the first then it is overpowered, since this is a cantrip and not subject to spell slots, it could be used every turn as a free dodge. Think about this with a fighter with magic initiate taking doge every turn. If you are casting blade ward as an action then it is useless - I can cast blade ward as an action to allow me to take dodge as a bonus action, or I can just take dodge as a bonus action.Not to derail the thread, but concerning blade ward: The intent of the spell is defensive, not offensive, but since using one's action to just cancel some damage isn't terribly helpful in most battles, it's rarely used by most players. On the other hand, I find that players commonly choose to Dodge when they don't have something useful to do in a turn, or when they're worried about damage. So how about combining the two? Change blade ward so that, when cast, the caster may choose to Dodge as a bonus action.
Would this be unbalanced? Since blade ward takes an action, and the Dodge would be a bonus action, I don't see any obvious ways this could be abused, but I may also be missing something.