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Message: <blockquote data-quote="faria" data-source="post: 6841237" data-attributes="member: 6780042">This is a good point. There are a couple ways around this that I can think of. First, you can just stick to Caltrops rather than Ball Bearings, because a 5sqft trap is more manageable than a 10sqft trap. Or Sorcerer 3 gets access to Levitate and Sorcerer 5 gets Fly. I can Twin Spell either to hit both me and my melee tank or any 2 melees in the group. Unfortunately, it requires Concentration, so no Hex... Hmmm. Maybe take some levels of Artificer and make some Levitation/Fly/Freedom of Movement potions? My DM doesn't allow UA though, so...Or use a Hunting Trap instead. A Hunting Trap can only affect 1 enemy, so no danger of it being an "unfriendly AOE". To make this work, it requires 2 levels of Wizard. Conjuration school, at level 2, can create an item, like a Hunting Trap, up to 10ft away (so potentially behind an enemy). You can get creative with this. Why not create a "bucket of grease" for them to trip over to mimic a Grease spell? Or a bonfire for them to fall into? Whatever you make though, it requires an action, so you have to take Sorcerer for Quicken Spell to Repelling Blast enemies into it. And without a lot of Sorcery Points, you can't do this reliably...If you're gonna go Conjuration Wizard though, then you might as well go Thief instead of Warlock to conjure Manacles and Fast Hands them onto enemies as a bonus action. This is actually a really neat build idea, but it won't work on half the enemies you encounter, and you're basically nerfing yourself with 2 otherwise non-synergetic classes. Maybe take all 4 classes? Warlock 2 for Repelling Blast (don't need level 3 because you get a Familiar from Wizard)/Conjuration Wizard 2 for conjuring traps and manacles/Thief 3 for Fast Hands/Sorcerer 13 for many Quicken Spells. It's a weird combo and requires 3 stats 13+...but you'd be able to adapt to any situation: conjure and throw Ball Bearings or Caltrops or Hunting Traps, Quicken Spell Repelling Blast enemies into your traps, or Manacle multiple enemies without needing to carry any around. Sounds messy. But if you're "damage capped" by level 3 anyway, why not go one of these "messy" builds to try and squeeze out a little more utility? I think it makes sense to at least try to be more useful to the group, and since you genuinely don't need more Warlock levels, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> it, just get creative.</blockquote>

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