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I remember when personal computers were a fad and a bubble. Now everyone has one in their hand. I remember the dot com bubble bursting, but we are 10000% more online now than we ever were then. I don’t think ai is a bubble, but I do think it is overhyped like most any new technology. ‘block...

I just think some people are much more morally bothered by hypocrisy than others.

I have a common problem. I’m driving about 5 over in the left lane. I’m moving faster than most traffic in the right lane someone gets behind me a bit close. When there’s a decent gap on the right I get over only to find they want to go about 1/2 a mph faster than me and by the time the gap ends...

If they don’t tailgate you do you ever get out of their way?

What happens if you were passing then they sped up to match you. Not an uncommon thing to witness.

Bless can certainly do nothing for the entire encounter. Giving a +1d4 bonus that doesn’t ever change anything is nothing.

I used to think it was a good spell and maybe in 2014 it was due to -5/+10 and much less accuracy/advantage than now, but I no longer think it is in 2024. I’d rate it a C at most for levels 1-10. I mean there’s a reason practically no Paladin typically uses bless. It’s because attack action...

Wasn’t it just a few pages back that you argued that wizards get command/etc easily? If so I think you just justify your point however you can at the time without really considering the points you’ve made in adjacent topics recently.

IMO bless only looks okay because there’s no level 1 spell that scales offensively in a level 1 slot. But that doesn’t make it a good or even above average spell. It’s not worthless, but it’s so rarely going to have any real impact. Control spells scale innately due to the fact that your save...

On a plus. At least no one is saying the same about Wikipedia currently.

It’s funny. I tried to play chat gpt for a chess game not too long ago, it couldn’t even display the changing board states correctly. I don’t think it was the most advanced gpt version at the time though.

There’s also way more advantage. Heroic inspiration. Vex and topple weapon masteries. Etc.

Accuracy hasn’t changed much???? What the heck?

It’s not the number of attacks, it’s how much relative damage the party outputs with and without bless. In 2014 due to lower accuracy bless was more impactful.

In 2014 with a bunch of -5/+10 feats? It’s just not impactful in 2024. And I’m sorry but going from +2 wisdom bonus to 2+1d4 vs higher level dcs of 17+ is pretty meaningless. You’re going to still fail that save. Just command the enemy so it can’t act and use that wisdom save ability ;)

On the thread premise my current group is a man down and are playing an artificer, 2024 wizard and a 2024 echo knight fighter. the wizard player leans much heavier into roleplay than power. As such I even allowed his casting stat to be strength. Anyways the point is that at my table the...

Exactly. My favorite misconception about bless is that it always does something because it allows players to roll 1d4’s. But in reality there’s a decent chance it changes absolutely nothing over whole encounters. Im not a fan of bless. I think it was a bit better in 2014 because the overall...

I dint dispute your facts here, but I have to ask, how are you comparing the damage to the control? Like myself I usually try to estimate how many enemy turns fireball would reduce the encounter by and then do the same for the control spell. I think fireball looks good here vs command. But...

Side note: wouldn’t it be 1 extra hit vs 0.6 extra hits. Since you need to adjust for accuracy?

Probably some selection bias there. If a dm tells me multiclassing on a case by case basis I probably don’t even ask. Even though I’d consider it if he just made it a default option.