Level Up (A5E) Spell crafting find steed

[Verall]

GPG 30 introduced a rare version of find steed, “Serathiel’s Find Fiendish Steed”, which lets you summon a nightmare or hell hound when upcast at 4th level. What level up cast would you suggest for a fell nightmare?

Fell Nightmare | Level Up

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Are there any other steeds or modifications you would like to make or see?
How would you implement them?

 

[W'rkncacnter]

well, the highest CR steed for a base casting of find steed is a warhorse, which is CR 1/2 with 30 HP. each slot above 2nd gives 20 additional HP, and a nightmare has 68 HP, roughly 40 more then the warhorse. following that, since a fell nightmare has 93 HP, which is roughly 60 more then the warhorse, i think 5th or 6th level is probably fair if you wanted to allow that.

 

[Verall]

well, the highest CR steed for a base casting of find steed is a warhorse, which is CR 1/2 with 30 HP. each slot above 2nd gives 20 additional HP, and a nightmare has 68 HP, roughly 40 more then the warhorse. following that, since a fell nightmare has 93 HP, which is roughly 60 more then the warhorse, i think 5th or 6th level is probably fair if you wanted to allow that.

Given that find steed is from the paladin list I’d be more inclined to go 5th, I do see 6th as reasonable but I don’t think a Herald should have to leave its class to get a rare version of an iconic Herald spell.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Given that find steed is from the paladin list I’d be more inclined to go 5th, I do see 6th as reasonable but I don’t think a Herald should have to leave its class to get a rare version of an iconic Herald spell.

yeah, that makes sense.