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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arlough" data-source="post: 5487028" data-attributes="member: 79335">Due to a ruling at 2nd level that Bloom(PHB2.213) could, if used 3 times in a row, grow a tree from a seed (originally a flavor based ruling entirely), I had a cleric in my group who, with a hour's preparation, could pretty much foul up any of my planned encounters using Tree Stride (PHB2.217).One time they were paid to free a number of villagers from a slaver camp.  I expected them to negotiate, lure the slavers away, sneak into the camp, or fight a really tough battle.  They had other ideas.Since the cleric's Nature checks were so high, in fact, he could set up multiple portals given some extra time.  He would stand beside a tree in a grove they created using pinenuts and Bloom, choose one of the large trees near the camp (the slaver camp was on the river in a semi-arid land, so you could see the trees that followed the river from a great distance), perform Tree Stride on an adjacent tree, lather, rinse, repeat.When they finally invaded the camp, they were popping about so much that it was like the slavers were playing whack-a-mole.</blockquote>