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<blockquote data-quote="Xenothelm" data-source="post: 7499626" data-attributes="member: 6972076"><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Another Magical Secrets “what do I pick?!” post haha... </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">The current team situation is:</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Half-Elf Glamour Bard</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Life Cleric</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Monk</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Ranger</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Paladin</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Warlock</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">We’re only lv 3 but I’m trying to plan out the direction I want the character to go in spell-wise so by the time I hit 10 I “should” have</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Cantrips:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Minor Illusion</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Vicious Mockery</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Light</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R1:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Faire Fire</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Dissonant Whispers</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Identify</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R2:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Pyrotechnics</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Blindness/Deafness</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Shatter</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Hold Person</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R3:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Dispel Magic</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Hypnotic Pattern</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R4:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Dimension Door</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Polymorph</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R5:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Synaptic Static</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">———————————————</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Counterspell is the common suggestion and I’m heavily considering its benefits. It just seems a bit, cheap imo... I feel like it’s more fun to deal with what the enemy has thrown at us and Dispel Magic should cover that base other than a PC getting straight up killed, which we DO have a cleric for; I’m also trying not to overlap roles within the party, which can be difficult to avoid as a bard. There’s just soooo much fun stuff to choose from the sorcerer/druid/wizard lists so I’m kind of biased there since we don’t have any of those classes.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">I’m also not totally sure about Greater Invis from a thematic standpoint. This is a glamour bard that NEEDS to be noticed/worshipped/loved so going invis feels like such an antithesis...considering polymorph here.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">So far I’m liking:</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R5 Bigby’s Hand - Mainly for enemy repositioning to move them through a bunch of opportunity attacks lol.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R5 Wall of Force - Just objectively good; moreso with Mantle of Inspiration.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R4: Banishment - One of a rare few CC that require a CHA save and I like CC variety.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R4 Conjure Woodland Beings - Summoning 8 pixies sounds stupidly awesome! Think I’d have to work with my DM on a version of the spell that’s not so obnoxious...</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R4 Find Greater Steed - Mostly the thematic flair of riding around on a pegasus.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">R1 Shield - +5AC on REACTION?! Is this a trap??</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #242527"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Thanks for your suggestions! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xenothelm, post: 7499626, member: 6972076"] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Another Magical Secrets “what do I pick?!” post haha... [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]The current team situation is:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Half-Elf Glamour Bard[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Life Cleric[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Monk[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Ranger[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Paladin[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Warlock[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]We’re only lv 3 but I’m trying to plan out the direction I want the character to go in spell-wise so by the time I hit 10 I “should” have[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Cantrips:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Minor Illusion[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Vicious Mockery[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Light[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R1:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Faire Fire[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Dissonant Whispers[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Identify[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R2:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Pyrotechnics[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Blindness/Deafness[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Shatter[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Hold Person[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R3:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Dispel Magic[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Hypnotic Pattern[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R4:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Dimension Door[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Polymorph[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R5:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Synaptic Static[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]———————————————[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Counterspell is the common suggestion and I’m heavily considering its benefits. It just seems a bit, cheap imo... I feel like it’s more fun to deal with what the enemy has thrown at us and Dispel Magic should cover that base other than a PC getting straight up killed, which we DO have a cleric for; I’m also trying not to overlap roles within the party, which can be difficult to avoid as a bard. There’s just soooo much fun stuff to choose from the sorcerer/druid/wizard lists so I’m kind of biased there since we don’t have any of those classes.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]I’m also not totally sure about Greater Invis from a thematic standpoint. This is a glamour bard that NEEDS to be noticed/worshipped/loved so going invis feels like such an antithesis...considering polymorph here.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]So far I’m liking:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R5 Bigby’s Hand - Mainly for enemy repositioning to move them through a bunch of opportunity attacks lol.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R5 Wall of Force - Just objectively good; moreso with Mantle of Inspiration.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R4: Banishment - One of a rare few CC that require a CHA save and I like CC variety.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R4 Conjure Woodland Beings - Summoning 8 pixies sounds stupidly awesome! Think I’d have to work with my DM on a version of the spell that’s not so obnoxious...[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R4 Find Greater Steed - Mostly the thematic flair of riding around on a pegasus.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]R1 Shield - +5AC on REACTION?! Is this a trap??[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#242527][FONT=Roboto]Thanks for your suggestions! :D[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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