Saying people shouldn't get kidnapped shouldn't be a political statement either but here we are.
Yeah but those are different niches. The people that already played 3/3.5 didn't feel like 4e was for them (and in a way, it wasn't), so they moved on to pathfinder etc. Some newer players got into dnd with 4e but it alienated the older minmaxer types that liked 3(.5)e. (I have not done any research and this is all gut feeling and 2nd hand accounts by the way). In 5e they struck the right balance to get a kind of 3.5e "light", that can attract new players as well as satisfy older players, though of course you can't ever satisfy everyone.
You're right of course that mirror image and invisibility are super strong spells that don't benefit from a higher save DC, but the pattern series of spells (of which I consider colour spray the single target version) are still super good.
In the end, don't forget that "fun" is different for everyone, and with experience you might find yourself wanting to challenge yourself with "suboptimal" choices because it's more fun to play your first gnome paladin than the tenth halfling rogue.
Oh yeah definitely, game systems are rarely a good implementation outside of the combat. Many DnD games are definitely good (I've played neverwinter nights series, baldur's gate series, dungeons and dragons online), but the real charm in DnD is playing with your friends and having a good time (as well as hyperoptimising your character at the same time, if you like that) (honestly I believe that's one of the realisations WotC made with 3.5e that led them to make 4e, and subsequently 5e, a lot simpler: making it easier to get your friends into it was more important than having myriads of options for breaking the game)
So for reference:
Spell focus gives +1 to save DC for the chosen school, in this case illusion. Looking at the spells listed under illusion school and filtering on those useful in combat we have:
- lv 1: color spray: unconscious, blinded and stunned, will save negates (similarly hypnotic pattern and their higher level variants are all great crowd control spells)
- lv 4: phantasmal killer: will disbelief, then fortitude or die (3d6 on successfull save)
- the series of https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Shadow_Evocation and shadow conjuration and all similar spells are pretty good too, they allow you to cast any other evocation/conjuration spell of lower level, at the cost of an extra potential will save to disbelieve (but also at the DC of the shadow spell, which is higher level) (insert "mom says we have heighten spell at home" meme)
And that's just at first sight a couple good ones.
Sure, you won't be throwing around +1 save dc fireballs with this (except shadow evocation gives you heightened fireballs, at the cost of an extra will save), but CC is often more useful than direct damage. Especially out of combat (depends on what you mean with "roleplaying aside"), there's lots of good options: hiding behind a silent image is a cheap mass invisibility spell, or distracting guards with ghost sound for sneaky infiltration.
Good luck!
I have an arctis something, 7 or 9, not entirely sure anymore and posting this from my phone. Only thing I needed the drivers for the mic loopback settings (which I used my gf's old windows laptop for for like 5 minutes) and otherwise there wasn't anything I needed. The wireless connection base station is just usb plug and play, no drivers needed. Not the same as the nova but my 2 cents, good luck!
So like impolite would be "give me a coffee", polite is "would you give me a coffee?" instead of "coffee please". Makes sense, thanks!
Can you expand on the Finnish? Is it engrained in the language somehow?
Lol, no offence but I didn't need a study to know that several years per animal can't compete with yearly (or faster) crops in efficiency. As long as you get all your nutrients somehow, meat is never going to win in footprint, be it carbon, drinkable water, or whatever. Still, more studies is more better, and I'm glad they're continuing but anyone eating meat shouldn't be kidding themselves.
Thanks for sharing! This seems like a reasonable request.
Also meanwhile I've also played a few and I like it, thanks for the link!
Clickable link: wafflegame.net
Opening up a world of pitt stop puns 😂
I'd wager most, if not all of them. Ideally you'd have a program you want to use because it's promising, but instead you keep returning to whatever you used before that because certain use cases aren't handled well (or at all).
The world isn't a simple black-and-white place.
No, I get that, but the title of the article is just so vague I didn't even want to click the link anymore 😅 thanks for the clarification now!
Wrongfully jailed for 20 years, Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ likely to receive record compensation
Fuck, imagine your kids dying from some (at that point) unknown and undetectable genetic disease, and getting thrown into jail on top of that.
It's a white horse, OP's spell checking failed a few times
Nice, top left as favourite for me, but all of them are pretty!
By that analogy they're not even putting crap on your plate, they're putting stickers on your food telling you to try other food. I don't want stickers on my food even if they're advertising something I might like 😭
I usually (but not often enough tbh) refer to owasp documentation, like this one https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cryptographic_Storage_Cheat_Sheet.html They basically say elliptic curves for asymmetric encryption, or RSA with a key of at least 2048 bits