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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7252008" data-attributes="member: 71699">@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=762" target="_blank">Mort</a> @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=16814" target="_blank">Ovinomancer</a>I ran the Hill Giants fight again with three Hill Giants (making it Super-Deadly). I had the Giants ignoring the singing High Elf that they could not hit, and throwing rocks at and running at other characters; except where BS was planted in front of them and hitting them while others were too far away to be engaged.Resources expendedBS = Mage Armor (1st) + Blur (2nd) + Shield + Booming Blade (cantrip) to make its presence felt. Took 19 HP damage (all discretionary, could have used Shield again).Cleric = Warding Bond (2nd) + Sanctuary (1st) + Healing Word twice (1st, 1st). Took 11 HP damage.Archer = 16 arrows + 2 superiority dice. Took 21 HP damage.Arcane Trickster = 6 arrows + Longstrider (1st). Took 24 damage.With Booming Blade BS did a decent job of controlling the Hill Giants - punishing them for any attempt to move away - and for me the statement "Let's use the Wizard to melee tank!" is... well, it's bad design. It overshadows martial's too heavily. And it's still a full Wizard! Possibly the only Arcane Tradition that competes is Divination with Portent, but Portent is 2 per long rest and doesn't really overshadow anyone. (I feel like Evocation doesn't strongly compete, because they'll burn through their spell slots faster. BS is efficient - Mage Armor runs 8 hours, Warding Bond runs 1 hour, Booming Blade is free, against most encounters you won't use Shield.)I wanted to post my FG logs here but I'm not sure how to get them out without copying a line at a time into a text file.</blockquote>

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