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You get even better mileage continuing to target INT. Granted, there's not a lot of good mass INT disablers. But WIS saves aren't as lopsided in favor of Team Monster at the <CR 10 level and almost no monster has good CHA saves. At any rate, if you're fighting a bunch of sub-CR monsters that...

The problem isn't 'targeting various saves'. The problem is 'After CR 15, target INT/DEX or GTFO'. You don't target various saves past a certain point. That's a fool's game and a waste of your precious resources. There is no >CR15 monster with bad or even mediocre CON saves, most of them have...

It's an annoying and puzzling nerf. It doesn't really stop it from being used, since there's plenty of ways to get nonmagical fire where you want it into the field without it being a hassle -- it just stops some of the more natural combos like using it on a Create Bonfire or Wall of Fire or...

Yeah, but there are a lot of creatures, even at high level, that have a poor chance of actually making that save. A Balor is CR 19 but only has a +5 intelligence saving throw. Against a wizard's very likely saving throw DC of 19 (or even higher) it's not hard to get multiple rounds of pain out...

Malleable Illusions only got a Green? Malleable Illusions in conjunction with Secret Chest lets you store multiple copies of permanent, concentration-free Major Images and you can just pull them out and alter them as you see fit. Or if your DM whines about extradimensional spaces, you can...

1. Not really. There's some value in DWing if you're in a game with a huge number of magical item drops, but the big problems are: 1A. Even warcaster doesn't get around the whole 'how are you accessing your material components' question unless you're using a staff -- and there's no way to get a...

When I need to throw down and lay down some additional DPR when I don't think the martials will really be able to help, I usually use spells like Contingency -> Melf's Minute Meteors, Bigby's Giant Hand, Animate Objects, Storm Sphere, Conjure Elemental, Flaming Sphere back in the day (though...

Not just those two spells. I rated spells like Blur and Misty Step and even Greater Invisibility pretty highly. If you're fighting encounters of low to medium difficulty, they're very efficient on the spell slots. If you're a level 10 character and your encounter is just fighting three earth...

1 - Protection from Good and Evil (this should probably be on a party member) to save spell slots. Silent Image, Fog Cloud. 2 - Ray of Enfeeblement, Phantasmal Force, Levitate, Web, Maximilian's Earthen Grasp, Dragon's Breath 3 - Fly, Sleet Storm, Enemies Abound, Haste (on...

Frankly, the Sun Soul Monk in Xanathar's isn't very good. It starts off pretty okay with giving monks a badly-needed ranged attack feature that can hit for (unarmed strike damage + dexterity mod), getting extras by spending 1 ki point or getting Extra attack -- of course, since it's a ranged...

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If you're playing a high elf and don't plan to Reincarnate, you'd probably be starting with one of: 17 16 15 8 8 8 16 16 15 10 8 8 16 16 14 10 10 8 16 16 14 12 8 8. First array: I'd go with a +1 to DEX and CON at level 4, Warcaster at level 8, max out INT, then the rest to flavor. Second...

Assuming you were A) On Point-Buy, B) Did not get a stat-replacement magic item, C) Were not playing a STR-build Tortle, and D) You didn't go for an unusual feat like Historian: I generally go for an ASI that first balances out any odd stats you had coming out of Chargen. I played a high-elf...

Can't believe I haven't noticed that Bless doesn't buff ability checks after three years of playing. Whoops.

I'm sorry if I came off as rude, but I'm inherently disdainful of 'how can I make my Bladesinger better in melee' comments for two reasons. 1.) If the Bladesinger does get substantially better in melee than it is right now, it'll overshadow every other gish. Compare the Bladesinger to, say, the...

Bladesingers got a lot of great goodies in Xanathar's. They didn't receive much if all you care about is melee Megadamage. But I have to say, I'm not particularly sympathetic to that complaint. Not counting EEPC spells, Bladesingers now get Dragon's Breath, Enemies Abound, Thunder Step, Tiny...

Hopefully this is the last word on the subject, but if there's one thing I want people to take away from playing Bladesinger: you still mainly cast spells like a traditional wizard. Your melee is a backup. Think of the class like you would view and Illusionist or a Necromancer. Both of those...

All right. All of the spells in Xanathar's are rated. I also finally inserted a Cantrip section I rather foolishly left out the first time around.

I know, right? Why in the world does the Raar, I Have the Blood of Dragons class NOT have the Rar, I Summoned a Big Scary Shadow Dragon spell is beyond me.

Shadow Blade is a great upgrade for Arcane Tricksters who have access to SCAG. They go from doing, say, 7d6+4 damage on a sneak attack at level 11 to a 4d8+6d6+4 damage on a sneak attack by using it with Booming Blade. I don't see it being used too often by Eldritch Knights, who will probably...