Nevermind! I found it. It's not because they're not threatening. It's because ranged attacks says
See post above!
Which has nothing to do with Paralyzed. It's just an additional damage rider for which you could as well use Hunter's Mark which deals Force damage which is less resisted than Necrotic damage.
And how exactly does that work? The spellcaster bumps their initiative with Alert. If they are a War Magic Wizard or Chronurgy Wizard, you can also add their Intelligence modifier to the Initiative roll. And then they paralyze the target. So far I'm with you. And then Chromatic Orb gets 4 crits? How 4 crits? You mean it hits the first target and then bounces three times and all 4 targets are within 5 feet of the caster? Thus, upcast to 3rd level? And how does the spellcaster cast two leveled spells with a spell slot on the same turn? Or are these two different spellcasters? And then somebody casts Hex and Scorching Ray? Also both as leveled spells with spell slot or how exactly?
If you say so! You see, if I see a bunch of monsters in a group like that and I have access to level 5 spell slots, I cast Synaptic Static. Deals the same damage as a Fireball, but against an Intelligence save and all those who failed have to subtract 1d6 from their attack rolls. Much better to hit 9 targets with one spell slots rather than paralyzing 1-2 of them with the same spell slot. Encounters like that aren't worth burning through more spell slots.
That's a lot of spell slots burned for that encounter. And are you saying the Sorcerer cast Chromatic Orb with Twin Spell? And the Cleric cast Scorching Ray and Hex on the same turn? I assume he had the free cast from Fey-Touched, right?
Hunter's Mark says "Until the spell ends, you deal an extra 1d6 Force damage to the target whenever you hit it with an attack roll."
It's less the crits themselves. It's whether you roll the same number on the damage roll twice (Chromatic Orb) or whether you roll an 8 (Sorcerous Burst), but of course, the chances for that to happen go up on a crit.
Depends on the Giants. Cloud Giants have +7 to Wisdom Saves, Storm Giants +10. The other Giants not so much.
You can't get Hex via an Origin feat, because it's only on the Warlock spell list and there is no Magic Initiate (Warlock) Origin feat, and Fey-Touched also gives you access to Hunter's Mark because Fey-Touched gives access to Enchantment and Divination spells.
Yeah, you can do that! I wouldn't, because there are better spells, like Hallow, to use this on, and Hallow would have probably also resulted in a default kill without anybody needing to use a spell slot. But you can use it on Prayer of Healing that if it's situationally beneficial. And if for nothing else, it sounds like they had fun and that's what matters.
Sounds pretty wasteful to me, given the encounter, but it sounds like you had fun.
Yeah, but you still used way more spell slots on that encounter than was necessary and therefore, I don't think it was good at all. You effectively shot at mosquitos with a bazooka. You could have ended the encounter just as much with one cast of an AoE-spell like Synaptic Static before wiping up the rest with cantrips instead of having multiple people cast 1-2 spells on that type of encounter. Or you could have had the Cleric use Divine Intervention on Hallow. But I'm not even sure I would use anything but cantrips on that one and hold my spell slots for when I actually need them. I mean, if they were so weak that they failed every Wisdom save against those spells, you wouldn't have had issues with them anyway.
Yeah, getting at least 6-8 encounters between long rests is fairly normal, especially if you have a party with predominantly Monks, Fighters, and Warlocks who get their resources back on a short rest and only a few Clerics, Sorcerers, or Wizards who only get them back on a long rest.
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