Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9338429" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Hey look, the game I was in where we went from 1 to 9 just went on hiatus.  We had a Ranger, a Cleric, a Wizard, and a multiclasses Monk/Fighter/Rogue thing, plus the occasional appearance of our Bard (medical issues + wifey & kids, couldn't be helped).Here's what I can tell for certain.  Likely a third of our fights had enemies resistant to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from non-magical weapons.  We had four battles where being able to do fire damage against tough foes was a big deal, one of which was a super large mass battle, and switching from a melee weapon for a torch was not very efficient, as torches are improvised weapons that do 3 fire on average- you could turn off the regeneration, but as our Ranger noted, it wasn't much of a benefit until we had the trollkin beat down to an inch of it's life, because 3 fire without proficiency to hit vs. 9 piercing (+1 short sword, 20 Dex) with +3 proficiency, even in the face of 5 regeneration, as actually more damage.We once fought creatures vulnerable to fire.  We never fought creatures vulnerable to piercing, slashing, bludgeoning, radiant, thunder, lightning, acid, poison or force. We did fight many creatures (oozes and a devil) where force was almost the only thing that would work, which is why my Wizard was an all star.We had, in fact, two characters with magic warhammers by the time the game went on hiatus- in no way were these better or worse than a magical anything else they could be wielding.  We fought wights, bone nagas, oozes, trollkin, evil spellcasters, a devil, a genie, a blood hag, two liches, three undead warlocks, ghost wolves, deep ones, golems, a living sphere of annihilation, and even a shoggotoh, for Hastur's sake (Fhtagn!).At no time was there any weapon that was any better than any other (other than being magical vs. not- early on we were so hindered by this that our ranger was using a pair of magical daggers that only had bonuses against undead and monstrosities- one was +1 vs. undead, the other was +1 vs. monstrosities; and our monk was using a magic light hammer that's only power was it granted advantage when he spent the first healing surge during a rest).There were many battles where spells, even cantrips > weapons.  So, you know, this all very campaign-dependent.</blockquote>

Verification