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Hold Person is a) boring and b) generally sets up another party member to kill steal before you get chance to follow up with anything...

7th level now. Just got 4th level spells recently. Subtle and Careful metamagics. Careful has been quite useful, as noted. Subtle was...

I play one. Right now. Every Monday. Jalt Kalthor (clan name first, as is traditional in Djerad Thymar), Draconic Sorcerer. I have not...

They are not required to do that. It's purely a matter of style. That's kind of the point of D&D - you are not required to play D&D in...

Does the DM make a huge difference? Yes. For example, I will tend to throw up obstacles for optimised characters, and things that help...

Ironically I actually had good reason to pick up Subtle Spell as a low-level Sorcerer....because early on, I didn't have an actual spell...

It’s more useful for out of combat shenanigans. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. The main drawback of wild magic has nothing...

Have a look at the Sorcerer's level 6 abilities. Aberrant Mind: You can slightly more efficiently cast from spell points (which thus...

Absolutely true, but players choose it anyway because it lets them do more stuff on their turn, even if the extra cantrip makes no real...

And in my experience, a Wizard can do pretty much exactly that. 3-5 combats a day is the typical experience I've had, and that comports...

“Hightened” spell is interesting, because even though it’s the optimal choice, players tend not to choose it, or put it off to high...

Yup, you really need to assume that for any serious fight, the party is going in fully loaded (as the wizard scouted it out with their...

Unless Mind Whip is much changed it can’t be twinned.

Which as I pointed out, doesn't matter. Bards are better at control, which is were casters matter, and they can heal, and buff, and are...

Having seen a party seriously struggle without anyone who can detect magic as a ritual, that really should not be underestimated. And of...