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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveDash" data-source="post: 6541385" data-attributes="member: 6786202">He has found a combination that works for him. In my game though it just wouldn't work.Simulacrum. Who is my party Wizard going to cast this on? Options are<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />aladin, himself, Lore Bard, Light Cleric. Hmm. There's no good candidate there really for good "at will" damage. The Paladin would last maybe 3-4 combats tops with 65hp and is he really going to add that much to the Fight? No magic weapon so he will be doing half damage vs anything resistant for a lot of the fight. The actual Paladin has +1 plate and an ioun stone of reserve (shield) which gives him staying power in combat.Setting up two Paladins before each fight is also more costly resource wise than just one. Is this really worth 1500gp and 8 hours downtime? I don't think it is.Light Cleric and Lore Bard would be terrible choices. He is an Abjurer so his simulacrum would probably last longer and be a bit more useful that a Paladin simulacrumUltimately though he has decided to focus his efforts on enabling the Paladin (real one) to do oodles more damage than he already does (hold spells, crowd control, etc). It's also not feasible for them to much around every day or so in the Underdark creating new simulacrums, they have a quest to do.Now lets look at planar binding. They're in the Underdark. Powerful spell casters see everywhere, fiends are common. Enemy spellcasters come with banish memorized as par for the course down here. Heck my group banished their way through parts of the underdark, it's a bit silly to assume all the NPC casters down here would just forget that one off their spell list. Also given the size of it, it's going to be impractical to take with them. It's better binding something else like a Deva, much better Charisma saving throws. But still as a DM I wouldn't let a player abuse planar binding constantly just like I wouldn't let a Druid abuse Conjure Woodland Beings.So he has found the Wizard can be pretty powerful in the right circumstances, I'm all for that, but that size doesn't always fit all Wizards, and it's open to some DM leniency as well. Whether it's fair or not that the Wizard has to jump through a few hoops to get that power vs the Crossbow Expert Sharpshooter who basically just turns up with a crossbow and some bolts is entirely different.Edit: Posted from my mobile, so apologies for the bad engrish.</blockquote>

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