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If your foes already have disadvantage, why would you want to be wasting an action putting on a shield? Isn't there something more productive that your Bard can be doing with his time? Like I said, you can spin out any once in a blue moon scenario where a Bard strapping on a shield is a good...

Once in a blue moon. You had to throw disadvantage into the equation to get his numbers to work? WT? How many times does it matter though? How many times in most games are PCs attacked by a bunch of foes at long range and they don't have a boatload of other options where pulling out a shield is...

If 20 Hobgoblin archers are shooting at your Bard, using an action to put on your shield more or less adds at least a half round to the time it takes to get out of range. Nor does it help at all against the one Hobgoblin per round that criticals. If he wants to run away, he should just dodge. 8...

I did. My wife's Paladin did that. It was kind of like playing a Monk with much better AC (3+ attacks per round, not as much damage per attack, but had more opportunities to crit and spike). The extra attack per round over a normal sword and board Paladin did result in slightly more average...

Sure, but when someone uses numbers that do not make sense, it weakens their argument. Anyone can skew numbers to prop up their argument. That doesn't make their argument stronger. Even your extreme example here does not make sense because again, you skew the example to match the result you...

Except that shields do not give 2 dmg reduction per round. To do that, 40% of the monster damage has to be negated which means that +2 AC has to relate to 40% of monster damage. The basic case where this happens is when the monster needs to roll a 17 to hit without the shield and a 19 to hit...

Who said that I was raising this "in-game"? I know exactly how my DM is going to rule this ahead of time.

That's the cool thing about magic. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact to the PC or NPC not casting the spell, it often doesn't. ;)

The issue I see is that there are a lot of AoE attacks in 5E. What good is a defensive spell that can be totally dispelled and have zero net defensive effect because some hedge wizard has Thunderwave or some Shaman has Spike Growth? Casting a defensive spell in 5E is kind of like casting a...

I'd change it to "single target" effects (any spell that targets a single creature or attack / shove). I like the idea of there being 3 singed illusions of the Fireball singed caster.

What exactly is "putting no defense effort in to protect yourself" in the rules though? That is a "made up" phrase that is often used in D&D discussions to try to explain rules. Or to try to explain why a rule should be changed in xyz scenario. So, if my PC is prone and my images are prone...

Thanks for that. I knew that, but my old brain forgot. :blush:

If you think that is counterintuitive, just imagine how counterintuitive it is for the Barbarian to run up and cast Blink on round one followed by a bonus action Rage. He can do both of these 3 times a day. The guy with the best physical defenses (except AC) is not on the tabletop for half of...

Fair enough. I doubt most DMs give +2 AC to the images due to Haste or Shield of Faith though. If the protection spells that the Wizard has up do not modify the AC of the images (because the images are not the PC and hence not the target of those spells), neither should (targeted) advantage...

A different player took over the DMing role, so I get to play a PC. I am planning on playing a multiclass Barbarian / Wizard. I was wondering if I am reading Reckless Attack combined with Mirror Image correctly. RA: "attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.". MI: "Each...

Sorry, by easy, I meant not a TPK. Remember, this is a large room. It took up our entire grid and there was still 30 or 40 feet beyond the edges. The dragon walked in like he owned the place and ignored the PCs. The PCs spread out in a circle around the dragon as it walked toward the archway...

The party's biggest issue was that the Monk and Cleric could not get into range that often. I had Iymrith flying around in that large room staying out of range of most PCs and trying to pick groups of them off with spells or breath weapon (and anyone who flew in close got a taste of claws, bite...

In my group, it did not matter if the book stated that it was a cut scene. They kicked her butt, even with me giving her double CHA spells instead of just 6 (i.e. 12 spells). Harshnag wasn't going to say "Flee you fools" until it was apparent that the PCs were going to lose. They didn't. Sure...

Awesome. :cool: Since I just handed the reins of DM over to someone else, I will suggest sofa initiative. And, I will suggest a roll (or possibly winner of init gets) to determine clockwise vs. counterclockwise. Personally, I think Mike's initiative seems like a big "time suck" and as a...

Don't allow caltrops. For a tiny object, our game does not allow coins or other really small objects (tiny does not necessarily mean "as small as possible"). We require rocks the size/weight of about a cannonball and carrying (let along getting them out of your backpack) requires effort (and...