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As far as I understand, "utility spell" is a category consisting of all spells that aren't combat spells.

I agree 💯 btw 😁

Raise your hand if you spoke to the guard bear again after saving the Grove, hoping that the xenophobe had changed its mind about you 🙋🏻

You don't really need that extra spell slot for a game that's not at all punishing in the combat department though, and having Speak With Animals memorized as a ritual is just much better QoL than having to buy and drink potions all the time IMO

Smack the door with your sword. The only ones that don’t fall to my sword are arcane locked and astarion can lock pick those.

Especially considering the absurd amount of cliffs is the game.

Spike Growth wants a word. Although that one does pair nicely with Thunderwave, so there's that.

DND is not a narrative game first. It has very few rules for narrative stuff. The bulk of its attention is spent on resource management and combat. Because the bulk of the game is centered around managing resources (spell slots, HP, sometimes gold), I say it is a resource management game.

It's not very good at facilitating good stories. It's just missing a bunch of tooling like you'd find in Fate or other games. You can still play make believe but you can do that with anything. The rules aren't really helping very much. They often don't care at all about the narrative.

I'll remember stuff like him blowing hold person on a retreating mook when the expertise-in-grapple rogue could have just grabbed him, sure, but not happily.

Lol. This just is not true in the slightest for earlier D&D. Sure, 5E is mostly focused on narrative, and everyone ignores food, water, etc. This was not always the case though. It was a role playing game, but the role was that of a person who had real needs and desires. It was mostly about dungeon crawling, and often even competitive-ish. Players would frequently try to get one up on each other, like sneaking off to steal all the loot from a dungeon before anyone else got there. There was also almost nothing done in cities and stuff. You'd purchase your equipment and move on to the next encounter.

I agree this isn't what the game has become, and it also isn't the way it "should" be. To pretend like resource management and survival aspect were never part of the game though is ignoring a lot of history.

I too tried to play it 'right' and only rested sparingly. I made a point to never leave a dungeon or major quest sequence to rest, and generally burned through every last slot and ability I had before I chose to go back to camp. Highly recommend. Actually used my damn potions. Only issue is trying to figure out how to catch up on the rest cutscenes. I tried to squeeze them in all at once but I'm sure I missed some here and there.

To be fair though, my first Tav was a warlock. Even after my party was drained of everything, Eldritch blast goes pew pew and tosses enemies off cliffs (if Karlach didn't get to them first)

What problem is that intended to solve and how does it solve it?

Long rest. Repeat as needed.

Sounds railroady and yeah BS, but I know some that don´t have buildings. Like a Dungeon, a Turret with just arrow slits same with the Burgfried. Or a Barn, maybe a church that abhorres the Light and or Sun? Just spitballing :)

I like greatswords.