D&D 5E Best way to get advantage in DnD

[Charlaquin]

Yep. Imagine a potion that made 1-3 enemy attacks per short rest target the terrain, and cost 10 gold.

Exactly. And like, hey, sometimes that is the smarter move for the monsters to make. Sometimes it’s not. But either way, you get a ton of value out of that Nag Champa.

 

[toucanbuzz]

Cheat, make up a rule to give yourself advantage, and hope the DM is inexperienced enough not to know it.

 

[TwoSix]

I’ve seen team bad guy lose quicker because they took 1-3 attacks to kill a familiar, when the PCs hit most of their attacks anyway.

Advantage just isn’t that big a deal.

Hell, I’ve got an owl familiar in one game that has mithral barding crafted by a gnome master crafter, so it rarely gets hit even when I have enemies try, but...so what? They spent gold and downtime and made a cool thing, even had it enchanted so it comes back with the owl and changes shape if they summon the familiar as something else. It’s cool.

The game very much runs just fine with the familiar not getting attacked.

My own character has a familiar that is a wolf, via DM permission. It’s fine.

I find the "how useful is the familiar in combat" discussion interesting, just because it always seems to provoke a "what color is the dress"-level of vitriolic argument online that really doesn't match any issues at the table. (I've had games where the familiar gets swatted constantly, and others where it's been ignored constantly, and nobody has issues either way.)

I think there's a playstyle difference that causes this split, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is. It isn't quite a "running the battles to be challenging" versus "running the battles as an accurate monster simulation" difference, it seems more to be a "what level of functional game awareness is realistic for the monsters to have" distinction.

 

[Maestrino]

Heh. I can see most non-caster enemies not knowing what a familiar is and ignoring it. ("damn bird! Get out of my face while I smack this annoying wizard!")

I can also see an absolutely paranoid wizard just blasting random small animals. ("That weasel was spying on me!")

 

[Eyes of Nine]

A familiar can use the help action to grant you advantage to attack.

Super broken unless GM always kills Familiar first (imo)

 

[ad_hoc]

"I had trouble fighting Giants until I showed them a toad. That forced them to drop their guard so I could land my fatal blows."

Familiars "Helping" in combat is a terrible loophole in the rules - unless - it is a Pact of the Chain Familiar who should be able to because they have the ability to attack and can thus pose a threat.

 

[Mistwell]

Super broken unless GM always kills Familiar first (imo)

We've used it for years and it's never been an issue. It's not used every round for sure, but when appropriate we do it. Sometimes the familiar dies, but often not. What has happened to your games when this has been done that makes you feel it breaks your games?

 

[iserith]

Earn and spend your Inspiration.

 

[jasper]

What is the best way to get advantage on attack rolls in DnD Adventures league? My character is going to be three levels of warlock/Hexblade and the rest being divine soul sorcerer. I’m going to get pact of the chain with the invocations being gift of the ever living ones and agonizing blast. Is there any other option besides the spell Enhance Ability? The best I can think of is a Greater Invisibility + Extended Metamagic

Go go Team Tactics. I been running AL for over 200 sessions, there are no BEST ways to get advantage by your build alone. Talk with your table mates and depending on the combat you can gain advantage in multiple ways. However ROTTTEN FAIRY GOPARENTS FIRE. Um Faire Fire seems to be the spell my monsters miss the most.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Go go Team Tactics. I been running AL for over 200 sessions, there are no BEST ways to get advantage by your build alone. Talk with your table mates and depending on the combat you can gain advantage in multiple ways. However ROTTTEN FAIRY GOPARENTS FIRE. Um Faire Fire seems to be the spell my monsters miss the most.

It would be cool to have every group of monsters the PCs encounter have someone who can cast Faerie Fire. Cool as in "Now I HAVE NO PLAYERS LEFT " sort of cool.