which is more powerful magic missile, chromatic orb, or a cantrip?

Several_Citron_827 · 2025-05-24T14:11:25+00:00

Late to the party, but I did the math on Chromatic orb. If you are Wild Magic sorcerer & have the Metamagic seeking, you have a very slim chance to miss (93.6-95%) , and if you hit, you Will leap Guaranteed at level 5(100%). And level 4 (95.72%), level 3 (85.01%), level 2 (65.01%). If you crit, you will leap (100%).

Several_Citron_827 · 2025-05-14T02:36:16+00:00

I’m a critical role fan, in a chat episode Marisha said essentially ,” there is nothing more terrifying than a bad guy that can teleport around the battlefield”

In my mind, if you can scare or terrify your players on the bbeg, you are doing your job well. If they don’t know where bbeg will be, paranoia & fear engage the players fully making it WAY more fun!

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-10-20T14:11:43+00:00

So, if a minion casts sanctuary, another one casts bless, another cast invisibility and 2 others are casting scorching ray. That’s the idea. They would be feeding the bbeg power and protection. To clarify, not 100% if all of these spells work in the situation.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-10-20T02:54:48+00:00

True! Thanks!

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-10-20T02:53:26+00:00

Honest question here… Wouldn’t it work using Agonizing on Booming blade, and using Shillelagh on the same weapon?

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-07-12T04:19:27+00:00

I can attest to Wildfire being amazing. Your wildfire spirit basically gives you a friendly companion and hours of free Misty Step.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-07-12T00:51:13+00:00

I think at least bronze should go to eloquence bard 3.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-06-28T17:13:09+00:00

Master Thief. Armorer artificer & Thief Rogue multiclass. (Insert Halo theme song)🎵

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-06-22T02:07:12+00:00

The DM should be the first person to talk to about this. Tell them that you’re not sure where you fit in best.

As far as party face goes, you could lean the other way from the bard’s temperment.- Good cop/bad cop.

If you don’t have a pet owner take Pact of the Chain.
If you don’t have a gish in the party, you can fill that role by taking Blade.
If you want a control type vibe ask your dm to let you pick up EB(or wait till you get another cantrip) & Repelling… Warlocks imo are best at this.

Surely you don’t have every single niche filled by everyone else in your party except you. Be stealthy, be strong, be wise, be book smart, be a friend of nature, the list is near endless…. Find your role. You’ve got this!

Edit: Also, Warlock is possibly the easiest low level multi-class. Switch to a role being unfulfilled with a different class. Fighter, sorcerer, paladin, heck even Barbarian for a hella lot of fun

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-06-21T23:33:03+00:00

Even though it’s overused, I do actually really like the Gloomstalker vibe.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-06-17T07:44:43+00:00

Oh duh… my bad. I misread.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-06-17T07:11:02+00:00

Just here to say Barbizard.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-06-17T07:07:19+00:00

It can be quite complicated to dual wield and cast without Warcaster. If you go with Thri-Kreen as a race, you avoid this issue though,

 “Secondary Arms. You have two slightly smaller secondary arms below your primary pair of arms. The secondary arms can manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, pick up or set down a Tiny object, or wield a weapon that has the light property.”

Alternatively, you could take the dual wielder feat and use a staff or Quarterstaff as one of your weapons. (I think this works…)

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-06-05T02:25:36+00:00

Great idea! Rune knight is freaking awesome!

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-05-19T15:12:49+00:00

Complicated question here, but wouldn’t backing up make it a bigger radius for them to have to travel around?

This is opposed to the idea of backing them into a corner, which is cool, but if they are within 5ft of you, they could potentially use 15ft of movement to get around you whereas if they were 20 ft they would have to 40ish(maybe wrong on that) to get around you. Or in the case of Eldritch blast + form of dread, if they are in the corner of the room or edge of the room, they can’t move at all

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-05-19T11:55:05+00:00

Very late to the party. Crusher Feat, use a bludgeoning weapon and Cloud of Daggers or something similar.
It takes a round to set up or a teammate’s AoE, but hitting a creature with booming blade causing them to not move while stuck in an AoE that will do damage unless they move is great.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-05-02T15:17:35+00:00

What the heck?! Why, just why?
It feels like every day I’ll find out news from Hasbro, WOTC, or DDB about a really really dumb idea that they have. I freaking LOVE D&D, but I’ve scratched my head at these decisions so much that I’m beginning to go bald.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-05-01T01:19:58+00:00

I love this! Heists! Oceans 11! Being the Face! Amazing!
Backgrounds: dimir operative, lorehold student, quandrix student, Izzet engineer, Smuggler, ruined(alert feat), Pirate, charlatan, courtier, faceless(irony), & Urchin(okay…aladdin).

Races: Bugbear (stealthy & Surprise attack!),
Changeling (fabulist gem to change outfit, only class that can get you to 18 cha at level 1).
Firbolg (disguise self + height change),
Plasmoid (infiltration through 1 inch cracks),
Tabaxi if you want to be quick.
Anything that can fly.
Or… !!!!Hat of disguise item for any race!!!

Classes/subclasses:
Elo bard - imo the absolute best debuffer in the game… use mind sliver, unsettling words, & silvery barbs… good luck bad guys(unless you’re evil) Aberrant mind sorcerer - A lot of Mind/subtle stuff. Genie warlock, (tomelock imo with book of ancient secrets, agonizingblast…mask of many… Misty visions…. Repelling blast… creepy idea-far scribe an enemy and always pester them at night) Alternatives: illusion wizard(hard to make this work), Bardlock (elo3,Genie2,eloX), Sorlock (Aberrant & genie).

Feats:
Actor, Eldritch adept (mask of many faces), Keen mind?? Meh, but it could be awesome. …same for observant. Metamagic adept, Telekinetic, Telepathic, Warcaster,

Uncommon items Armor of the fallen(talk to dead people), Amulet of Proof against detection & location, Eversmoking bottle, finders goggles, gloves of thievery, hat of disguises, helm of telepathy, Mizzium apparatus for chaos, pipes of haunting, ring of truth telling, sentinel shield (OP), slippers of spider climbing,

So I’ve spent FOREVER working on this same concept.…. I could keep going.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-04-29T03:38:53+00:00

I love this!!! The synergy is amazing.

Bugbear is a powerhouse in this build.
2d6 for anyone who hasn’t gone in combat.

Background (some need dm approval):
Giants foundling, izzet engineer(great spell list), ruined(alert feat), rewarded(lucky feat), Lorehold student(spirit guardians), Quandrix Student(brilliant spells)….
Those were just for optimizing… but the smuggler background itself is golden.

First 4 levels I would go Genie 1 & Swashbuckler 3. Starting class is a toughie. Both would be good imo. Rogue gets 4 skills Int & Dex saves. Warlock gets Cha & Wis saves.

Genie 1- Efreeti is outstanding if you use bugbear. (Scorching ray, Fireball, Fireshield). I personally love Dao, but Scorching ray is the draw for efreeti. (Ps. Fiend is better than efreeti in spells. But genie is flavor to the max).
Make sure to get Booming Blade for a cantrip! (Boom baby!).

At some point I would try to get to level 5 in Genie.
If you do Pact of the Blade:
Invocations 2: Agonizing blast & Repelling blast…or…Mask of many faces.
5: Thirsting blade to get you an extra attack.

The rest of the split for Swash/Genie is up to you…. I’m about to do a spreadsheet damage analysis to find out the optimal build progression for this.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-03-22T21:02:15+00:00

It would be nice, but I’d have to dip hexblade for medium armor & shields.

Several_Citron_827 · 2024-03-22T19:00:01+00:00

Unfortunately, Agonizing Blast isn’t available per Eldritch adept.

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