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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4353081" data-attributes="member: 2011">This was mentioned several times in this thread (so, you should be neither amused nor sad since people have discussed this). Yes, it is a feature of Ray of Frost. Can it help? Sure. Is it very useful? Probably not, regardless of how stupid or smart DMs play opponents.If an enemy runs away and alerts other enemies, it really is not skin off of my nose most of the time. I was going to kill those enemies anyway. There is a good chance that they would see it coming anyway (and ambushes are not a real big deal most of the time).If an enemy runs away with the magic item our group is looking for, as a Wizard I will eventually be at a level where I can stop him with a Hand or Wall spell.So the utility is there in Ray of Frost (slowing 40% of running away enemies assuming only one enemy runs away at a time), it's just not that big of a deal too often. I'd rather have the utility of auto-killing minions. JMO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 4353081, member: 2011"] This was mentioned several times in this thread (so, you should be neither amused nor sad since people have discussed this). Yes, it is a feature of Ray of Frost. Can it help? Sure. Is it very useful? Probably not, regardless of how stupid or smart DMs play opponents. If an enemy runs away and alerts other enemies, it really is not skin off of my nose most of the time. I was going to kill those enemies anyway. There is a good chance that they would see it coming anyway (and ambushes are not a real big deal most of the time). If an enemy runs away with the magic item our group is looking for, as a Wizard I will eventually be at a level where I can stop him with a Hand or Wall spell. So the utility is there in Ray of Frost (slowing 40% of running away enemies assuming only one enemy runs away at a time), it's just not that big of a deal too often. I'd rather have the utility of auto-killing minions. JMO. [/QUOTE]

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