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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6519697" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Re: mud burst, yes it's useless against dragons. I already said that. The mud breath/burst might be useful against the ice toads though (are they medium?) and you get it for free.Re: AoE effects, the lair effect barely even hurts mud mephits. Yes it can breathe on them, but remember the context: we're comparing Bigby's Hand RAW to Conjure Elemental which is cheaper, longer duration, and gives more HP. The breath weapon will kill Bigby's Hand just as fast as a mud mephit, but at least mud mephits can disperse over an area to have a chance at survival--and as you say, at least they're soaking breath attacks that would otherwise go on the party.(Ice mephits are immune to cold but it's not clear you'd want them in this fight, since soaking the breath weapon is what you WANT them to do, AND they have a lower damage output.)Mud mephits can't grapple dragons, so there's that, but they can Help attacks. And they don't eat up your bonus action.Aside from the grapple-gargantuan-creatures potential, which is pretty niche, Bigby's Hand RAW is worse than Conjure Minor Elemental in every way that I can see. And here's the point: if your house rule were implemented, so that Bigby's Hand took your bonus action but not concentration, it would no longer be strictly worse, just different.</blockquote>