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What Options are Available to Utilize High Strength as a Squishy Character?
The College of Valor Bard, as a Bruiser, fits this aim
While most bards are squishy (having only light armor proficiency) all Bards gain Expertise as a class benefit (I did this with a Lore Bard, will ...
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When is Animate Objects more effective than Fireball?
While it kind of still falls under the same situational category as resistances, there is also the situation where you're trying to reduce collateral damage. While fireballs do not directly damage ...
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When is Animate Objects more effective than Fireball?
Breaking casters' concentration.
Disclaimer. This answer will not consider any mathematical1 formulation or probabilistic simulation.
Without considering the pure, numerical expected damage and ...
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When is Animate Objects more effective than Fireball?
Instantaneous vs Duration
The primary benefit of animate objects is that it lasts for more than one round. The result of this is the conservation of spell slots. Instead of having to cast fireball ...
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When is Animate Objects more effective than Fireball?
Typing.
Fireball deals fire damage.
Animate Objects does not.
That alone put Animate Objects as a far better choice when it comes to damaging creatures that have some sort of resistance/immunity to ...
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When is Animate Objects more effective than Fireball?
The other answers have covered a lot of other things, but a few additional options to consider.
Area Control
10 small objects under your control occupy 10 spaces of the battlefield. Creatures you don'...
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Optimizing Animate Objects spell against nonmagical damage immunities
Use silvered weapons as objects
Some of the creatures that have resistance to nonmagical slashing, bludgeoning and piercing can be normally wounded with weapons that are silvered. This does not work ...
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What Options are Available to Utilize High Strength as a Squishy Character?
You do not have to front-line
Your problem is that with a squishy character that has low AC and low hit points, you want to avoid being on the front line and that creates some tension when you fight ...
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What Options are Available to Utilize High Strength as a Squishy Character?
For a Bard, it's not a problem
It's true that Bards are typically associated with hight Charisma and Dexterity. You focus Strength instead of Dexterity, but that's not a problem, since Bards are jacks-...
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Shortest path from Shieldbreaker to Engineer
Playing around with the career list, gives that the shortest path to Engineer is via Deepwatcher, from the WFRP Companion. This career has Shieldbreaker as entry and Engineer as exit.
None of the ...
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When is Animate Objects more effective than Fireball?
Creatures benefit from bonuses
If you surround a target that is paralyzed (by your friendly Cleric's Hold Person maybe?), then all your Animated Objects attack with advantage and score automatic ...
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Optimizing Animate Objects spell against nonmagical damage immunities
Give small animated objects magic weapons
If your animated objects have hands, you could provide them with magical weapons. There are even common magic items that could be crafted or purchased ...
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What is the maximum number of PC-controlled undead?
132,221,250
9th level divine soul sorcerer/ 11th level walock, with access to animate dead from cleric list that isn't the eldritch invocation. Do the coffeelock trick, to get infinte spell slots, and ...
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help with optimizing an effective character level 8 barbarian soulknife build
Energy weapons
There are a lot of options for energy weapons, but few of them are good, and fewer still work with barbarian.
Soulknife
The “Elizabeth Braddock, a.k.a. Psylocke, class” is soulknife. ...
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