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<blockquote data-quote="Rya.Reisender" data-source="post: 6773413" data-attributes="member: 6801585">As the others said, Sleep is kind of strong in that particular situation, but generally, what I think is most important to consider is:1. Sleep can also hit allies.As DM play your monsters always so that some of them go for melee attacks. Don't put all the monsters in the same area. Force the wizard to place his AoE so that an ally could potentially be affected (in that regard a high roll might actually be a bad thing) or at least so that he can only hit half of the monsters with one spell.2. You can wake up any sleeping monster by using an action.You don't have to take the guaranteed critical hit with all the creature that fell asleep. Often it's better to prioritize waking them up. And you could give some monsters a blowgun so they can wake up at range.If you keep this in mind Sleep is still particularly useful in certain battles, but in other battles Sleep is the worse choice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rya.Reisender, post: 6773413, member: 6801585"] As the others said, Sleep is kind of strong in that particular situation, but generally, what I think is most important to consider is: 1. Sleep can also hit allies. As DM play your monsters always so that some of them go for melee attacks. Don't put all the monsters in the same area. Force the wizard to place his AoE so that an ally could potentially be affected (in that regard a high roll might actually be a bad thing) or at least so that he can only hit half of the monsters with one spell. 2. You can wake up any sleeping monster by using an action. You don't have to take the guaranteed critical hit with all the creature that fell asleep. Often it's better to prioritize waking them up. And you could give some monsters a blowgun so they can wake up at range. If you keep this in mind Sleep is still particularly useful in certain battles, but in other battles Sleep is the worse choice. [/QUOTE]

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