• TacticsConsort@yiffit.net
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    9 months ago

    Hypnotic Pattern.

    FIreball is good, don’t get me wrong. AoE damage with absolutely fucked range and radius is hard to argue with.

    But Hypnotic Pattern coming off a Bard (due to Cutting/Unsettling Words, and possibly the horrifyingly overpowered Instrument of the Bards) completely destroys any encounter it touches.

    It effectively does one of three things:

    -At worst, it burns a Legendary Resistance

    -Second worst, it wastes several enemy actions as they all need to spend turns waking each other up instead of doing damage

    -Likely: Turns any swarm encounter into a bunch of very easy ‘party against one mook’ fights

    -Likely: Allows you to just skip a boss’ turn