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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6819364" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Huh. Why the itch to dispel fear? At your table, do you fight a lot of dragons?My take on Fear is that while it is useful for players to impose on monsters (because of crowd control, disadvantage on ability checks, disadvantage on attacks), its value is limited when used against the PCs because they have so many ways to mitigate it, from spells like Calm Emotions to simply retreating en masse for a round (possibly shooting all the while, depending on the range) while the fear wears off. Maybe I'm underestimating it--if anyone can suggest a common scenario where Fear is really awful I'd be glad to hear it and use it.</blockquote>