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You always have a Wild Shape left for exploration scenes already, as you can recover one after a short rest.
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I found Wild Shape to be super useful and efficient. You can scout an entire zone as an inocuous animal, not even needing to be stealthy...
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Circle of the Sea. Under Rated DPR?
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Conjure animal doesn't do damage on a successful saving throw.
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Darn this discussion moves fast. I don't think me going back four or five pages up-thread would do any good, so I'll just summarize...
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The point can be stated more fully: *The additional action from Action Surge is supposed to be fighter-y stuff, not magic action-y...
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Whereas I think they've chosen the wording they have so as to make their action economy rules easier to state (ie they don't want to...
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The rules say that "When you take the Magic action, you cast a spell that has a casting time of an action or use a feature or magic item...
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But choosing a dud criterium is not a problem if you're not trying to do something you're not supposed to do! Saying "I attack him as...
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Oh but they can! Action surge doesn't ask you to take first your standard action, then the action surge. You can totally put them in any...
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So what is the goal of the readying part, if not circumventing the limitation? That what I was saying: give me a meaningful trigger ("if...
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That fighters are good at doing fighty things. Less good at doing magicky things. So, what is the fictionnal difference between...
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Doesn't the infamous "sneak more than one time per round" rely rather on opportunity attacks? Maybe you're thinking via the Haste spell...
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I don't have a problem with the trigger in abstracto. If someone says "I ready my attack, as soon as this guy move, I react", it's...
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You do make sense @Charlaquin But here's why I think it's rules-lawyery: it doesn't in any way concern itself with the fiction. Its...
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I've got nothing against close readings of the rules, really, when that's fruitful and leads to surprising or pleasantly unwelcomed...
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