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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 1449054" data-attributes="member: 892">Below:  If you are comparing Tasha's to Hold Person, then point 1 is neutral and point 2-3 are actually in Tasha's favour, since All creature types except Humanoids are absolutely immune to Hold Person.  Thus Tasha's has a better chance than Hold Person of working vs. abberations, dragons, elementals, fey, giants, monstrous humanoids and outsiders.Point 5 can be solved with the feat Eschew Materials, assuming your DM is actually going to have you worry about your spell components being eaten.That leave point 4.  And there is a feat called Enlarge Spell that solves that problem too, for the bard at least.  (A 2nd level spell slot for Enlarged Tasha's vs. a 2nd level spell slot for regular Hold Person).So the best that can be said about Hold Person (as opposed to Tasha's) is that it might save the bard one or two feats in certain situations, and give the sorc/wizard a better range for an equivalent level spell slot.  I gotta admit, Tasha's is looking pretty good in this comparison.An Arcane Archer using Tasha's might be interesting, no?</blockquote>