D&D 5E Spells with attack rolls, do you avoid them?

[Blue]

In fact, I was so disappointed with my d20's poor performance last session, I began recording the rolls after a string of 1's, 2's, and 3's. After another 4 hours, I ended up with an average of 9.2 , and that was after a rare surge of high rolls near the end of the session (I believe my d20 sensed how close it was to being forever shelved away).

Heh, I thought my group was the only ones to do this. We've just taken "bad" d20s and just tossed them on the floor. So they didn't give your other dice ideas.

Or given them to the player with the atrocious dice luck (you know each group has one) in hope that it would be so bad it would wrap around to awesome.

Of course, we also used to arrange them all 20s up to train them.

(And yes, like most D&D players we did have a good grasp on statistics and know it's not (usually) the die even if it came up low for an entire evening. It just was fun to anthropomorphize them and have something to blame when the dice hated us.)

 

[77IM]

Of course, we also used to arrange them all 20s up to train them.

What??? That does not work!!!

That USES UP all the 20s and then the dice roll low to compensate! That's your problem right there.

 

[Lidgar]

That USES UP all the 20s and then the dice roll low to compensate! That's your problem right there.

That is the Law of the High Initiative/Skill Check Roll at work again. A sure sign it will be a night of 3's and 4's for attack rolls.

 

[DaveDash]

Spiritual Weapon and Bigby's Hand are great attack roll spells, because if they miss you can still use them. In fact I think my Cleric probably does more damage from Spiritual Weapon than anything else.

Scorching Ray does huge amounts of damage for a reason, miss and it's wasted. It does give you at least three shots though.

 

[Psikerlord#]

Yep i dont use attack roll spells (barring cantrips). They generally arent worth it compared to the other options. If you are making an all or nothing choice, you are usually better off with hold person etc than doing slightly more damage than your average cantrip with a to hit roll spell.

Plus, if you're just using your spell slots for single target hit roll spells for damage... you probably would have been more effective as a barbarian or similar.

 

[AmerginLiath]

...makes me angry and resentful at my beautiful orange dice..l(I believe my d20 sensed how close it was to being forever shelved away).

I superstitiously stick with my older brother's "lucky" 1st edition edition dice bag from his one godslayer paladin prior to my being old enough to play, coupled with certain ephemeral issues of my gaming life...

 

[fjw70]

I have only DMed 5e so far but I would not avoid attack roll spells. I am not that risk adverse as a player.

 

[Runny]

Attack roll spells are the bread and butter of wild sorcs

 

[PnPgamer]

Attack roll spells are the bread and butter of wild sorcs

This! I play a wild sorcerer and next session i will change my magic missile into chromatic orb, just to use chaos more often. It is also good twinnable spell.

 

[Runny]

The best low level twin in my book.