D&D 5E (2014) Unused Content Second Poll

[Gradine]

Spare the Dying is fantastic

 

[Blue]

Not sure how to vote - had a positive experience with Spare the Dying, a negative (early) experience with True Strike, and never seen Find Traps used. For Find Traps, 5e did a great job of making sure a caster can't replace a skill-based character with spells like in earlier editions, but this they went too useless.

 

[TwoSix]

No option for mixed experience, Find Traps was meh, but it worked, Spare the Dying was great and True Strike I never saw used.

Pretty much my experience. Find Traps was kinda blah, Spare the Dying was fine, literally does what it says, but not exciting or game-changing, and True Strike I've still never seen used.

 

[Nikosandros]

Find traps yes, quite often. The other two, no.

 

[Oofta]

I've seen spare the dying used, but it's kind of a waste if you have medicine proficiency. Never seen find traps and true strike is pointless.

 

[Gorck]

Chalk me up as another who has used Spare the Dying to good effect (as a Grave Cleric). The other two spells I've never even considered using.

 

[DeviousQuail]

Playing a grave cleric now so I've made great use out of spare the dying. It helps that it is suped up. But I've never had a problem with it for other characters. I used find traps once when 5e was new. Didn't realize it was so limited and never used it again. True strike is garbage.

 

[Mistwell]

We tried so hard to make True Strike work for us as written and just never could manage to get it to be useful. It probably should have just been renamed First Strike and been a reaction to use on the first round of combat and that would have been useful but not overpowered.

 

[Hussar]

Spare the dying has seen use.

 

[J-H]

Spare the Dying - I've seen it used one or two times in low level one-shots.
Find Traps - don't think so
True Strike - Yes. I played a Fighter/Bladelock in an arena (prison) game. The arena was pretty big, and most combats had at least one round where I could not get close enough to the enemy to attack. I was trying to be subtle with spellcasting so that the guards wouldn't realize my full capabilities, so no Eldritch Blasting across the arena. I also didn't want to just dash and end up letting the enemy hit me first... so I would often move 30' and cast True Strike so that I'd have advantage on my first hit. I think I used Blade Ward once or twice in similar circumstances as well, to preserve my Armor of Agathys.