The Scion of Cthulu
Added 2022-11-11 17:27:43 +0000 UTCReduce the speed of the enemy to 0, then push them away with this summoner.
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Hey Chris, thanks for your reply! Yeah you're obviously right about the inability to take War Caster as a first level Fighter. So you could start with Polearm Master or Great Weapon Master instead an take War Caster later on. About the bigger issue: Okay, that's interesting. I always thought, that "Magical Darkness" is alwys impenetrable by all means except Devil's Sight and Blindsight. As Devil's Sight says: You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet. But yea, the Darkness Spell explicitly says, that "normal Darkvision" is not enough to see through... wich Summon Fey does not say. So yeah, RAW this would only work against creatures without Darkvision. But it might be worth to talk to the DM how they "see" it ;)
Bolduin
2022-11-15 21:02:07 +0000 UTCThere are 2 potential issues I see with the idea. The first is that warcaster is not available to a 1st level fighter. The bigger issue I think is that there's nothing with the fey darkness creation that says it blocks darkvision, so unless your enemy doesn't have darkvision it won't do much. (There's nothing in the rules saying darkvision cannot penetrate magical darkness - the darkness spell has a special provision in the text that darkvision doesn't work against that particular spell)
Treantmonk's Temple
2022-11-15 20:34:47 +0000 UTCHi Chris, i really like the idea of rendering the enemy useless via yoour combined summon and other speed-hampering measures! Cool Build! I might have another interesting Warlock-Summoner character build for you: The Meele-Summoner: - Start with 1 Level in Fighter for Heavy Armor, CON-Save proficinecy and Blind Fighting fighting style (or another of your Liking, if you prefer). Be a Race with a bonus Feat an take Warcaster; make CHA your highest score, have decent CON and STR - Take 8 Levels in Hexblade-Warlock with Pact of the Blade, Take Thirsting blade for Extra Attack. Take Booming Blade as a Cantrip and if you have not taken Blind Fighting fighting stlye, you need Devil's Sight. Learn Summon Fey to create a tricksy Fey, wich can cover you in 5ft of magical Darkness. When possible, collect a magical shortsword to hand it over. Take Polearm Master and Great Weapon Master as feats. Now you're running something similar as the "Darkness+Devil's Sight"-Combo, but way more Party friendly (only 5 ft of darkness) AND you have a pet Fey to deal additional damage and do all kinds of shenanigans. Tactics: Your Turn: Run up to an emeny and either summon a Fey or attack, if you already have a summoned Fey. Then your Fey walks in, stabs, teleports behind you, covers you in Darkness and retreats a litte further. Now the enemy can either attack us with disadvantage or try to go away from us. If it tries, wie get an opportunity Attack Booming Blade with advantage. If it stays where it is, we will have advantage on all our attacks next round and repeat the tactic. - Take Fighter to level 4 to increase CHA, gain Action Surge and Eldritch Knight (thematically appropreate) for some castings of Shield and probalby Fog Cloud (if you went with blind fighting). - Go with Warlock to level 12 for Lifedrinker, increase your CHA to 20. - Aferwards probably stick with Warlock, as in your build here. What do you think? :) Best Felix aka Bolduin
Bolduin
2022-11-15 18:20:26 +0000 UTC
