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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccooke" data-source="post: 6419653" data-attributes="member: 6695890">I don't think so. Yes, it's situational just like the ability to hide or turn invisible, but it's something that provides more flavour than tactical ability.Think about it this way: The situationality (abuse of language is a fun game) of an ability falls into several categories and there's a lot of subtlety involved, but I think there's a reasonable way to rank them:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Abilities which are negated only by extreme misfortune or planning</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Abilities which may be negated by reasonable tactical choices</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Abilities which will only be useful in extremely fortunate or planned-for ambushes.</li> </ol>Against a level 1 party, invisibility is rank 1.Being able to hide on a bonus action is rank 2.Amorphous is a rank 3 ability - in order for it to be tactically useful in a fight, the Shadow needs some place to squeeze through that provides it with an advantage. How often does that come up in real games? At the point where an ability is only truly tactically useful when the DM designs an encounter to facilitate it, I believe it's safe to call that ability weakly situational.This of course does not mean that such an encounter would be bad, or should be discouraged, or anything of the sort - it's merely a reason why I believe the Shadow actually is CR½.This is the inverse of the reasoning I discounted the Shadow's weakness to sunlight as a detriment to its danger. It's a rank 3 weakness - powerful if it comes up, but the party will generally not be able to take advantage of it. Shadows simply won't be used much during the day, or near the open sun.Yes, that sounds like a useful thing.How are you ranking creatures according to their more situational abilities?</blockquote>

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