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Level 5: Guided Precision Once per turn, whenever you cast a spell from your Cartographer Spells list or hit a creature affected by your Faerie Fire with an attack roll, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of the spell or attack. In addition, taking damage can’t cause you...

Not if they're spamming a different spell from the subclass list. There's an opportunity cost in the selection. Not having a good choice in the subclass spell list isn't the same thing as not having a good choice. Maybe, but being a weaker option is also not the same thing as being a weak...

I think it's a mistake to focus on subclass spell lists for Spell Storing Item. Spamming Haste instead of Fireball or Lightning Bolt isn't necessarily a bad thing. Artillerists can use a martial ranged weapon as both the arcane firearm and spell focus to apply d8 bonus damage so it seems like...

That's how I read it.

Dead is the best condition. The party has to get the opponents there in the first place and preventing healing helps with that. Find Familiar can turn that into a range of 100 ft, or Fey Patron facilitates Misty Step teleportation away. It's not like Warlocks can't use touch spells.

The EB arguments presume damage is the optimal way to go. This is something with which I disagree. I'm a fan of Chill Touch, for example, because it's still a large damage die and prevention of healing can be useful. IME the bonus effects and control spells are more beneficial than a bit more...

Casting a spell without a slot is a thing in 2024, and it's still casting a spell. Mystic Arcanum is definitely access to high level spells and I think it's silly to ignore them with a claim that spells only go up to 5th level for warlocks. Pact Magic goes up to 5th level spells and that's not...

Level 2 -- 1 session Level 3 -- 1 session Level 4 -- 1 to 2 sessions Level 5 -- 1 to 3 sessions The first tier of play goes fast establishing the character. The second tier is where I believe play essentially begins with that established character and where DM's should be establishing how...

That depends on how many short rests the fighter takes and requires not using those spell slots for anything other than healing. You're paladin model took 16 CON and 16 CHA at the expense of STR (or DEX)? 2 short rests is 3 uses of Second Wind. 3 short rests is 4 uses of Second Wind. 1 short...

50/50 was with just a +2 bonus to the save. Approximately 1 out of 3 was without a bonus. At that level it's often no bonus or sometimes it's the +2 bonus. EDIT: shaking sleeping allies awake is also action denial

Check your list again. I definitely see Entangle on the ranger spell list in my 2024 PHB. The difficult terrain we get from Entangle regardless of a save is what makes it useful, but the conditions from a failed save from Sleep are better than the conditions from a failed save with Entangle...

No arguments here. Lessons of the First Ones allows for a lot of leeway which gets back to my point that gaining 2 invocations at 2nd level is a solid boost. The default spell list is at those levels is kind of mid.

Can't upcast yet at 2nd level so they're still relatively low DC single target spells. Fiendish Vigor is a fantastic source of thp at that level, though. ;-)

If we accept the premise that Entangle, Goodberry, medium armor, and shields makes a caster on par with the best level 2 martials wouldn't that lead us to rangers being the best of the best at those levels because they have that too and more? Bards, sorcerers, and wizards have Sleep for a good...

The OP made a claim about spell casters and then based it on an incomplete reference to what wizards gain at 2nd level. Bards gain Expertise, Jack of all Trades, an extra spell prepared, and an extra spell slot. That doesn't seem like much but it is a bonus to many skill checks and 3 1st-level...