Timeline for How to avoid the guidance cantrip from dominating the game without creating any benefit?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:23 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 14, 2020 at 20:51 | comment | added | Ryan C. Thompson | I think the fact that Guidance has, on average, less benefit to the roll than the Help action is a good reference point. One way you could look at it is as a Help action that can be separated in time from the action it's helping and can be used even if the helper isn't normally capable of helping with the action. That seems like a reasonably marginal benefit for the opportunity cost of picking a cantrip. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 23:49 | comment | added | NotArch | @PeterCordes Me personally, I don't think I would. I see guidance more like a quick help to overcome an immediate obstacle. But that's not in the rules anywhere. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 23:48 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | For an ability check that covers hours of work (like a crafting proficiency, or survival), would you consider it reasonable for Guidance to work if the caster had re-cast it as necessary to keep it up for most of the duration? (This isn't always possible, e.g. caster isn't stealthing in somewhere with the target, or is going to sleep.) | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 14:58 | comment | added | Anagkai | I do not agree with everything you say but the ruling you suggest concerning the duration of checks is very helpful. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 13:47 | history | edited | NotArch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 12:44 | history | answered | NotArch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |