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noobs help for fighter cantrip (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/dnd

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I’ve recently jumped into a game of Dragonlance despite the fact that all I know of D&D stems from Solasta & the old Neverwinter Nights games. I came to play an Elf Fighter that I want to subclass to Echo Knight. The GM was so friendly to let me rethink my choice of cantrip, which I humbly seek to be advised on. My current favourite is Booming Blade, which I find mixes well with the ability to move out of the current melee by switching with the echo. It also scales in damage the same way I’d receive extra attacks, so I won’t be missing out on much damage in my view. What would you choose, and why?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Booming Blade's damage scaling is the same as Toll the Dead, but with a smaller damage die.

However, since its effect depends on a weapon hit instead of the elf spellcasting ability (intelligence), I suspect it will proc more often than Toll the Dead for most melee Fighters. Seems like a good choice if you want to your cantrip to be for combat.

On the other hand, since a fighter has plenty of weapons for doing damage, you might consider picking a utility cantrip instead. How often you use it would depend on your play style and DM, of course, but in my experience, all it takes is a little imagination to get tremendous value from utility cantrips.

Here are someone else's thoughts on the wizard/elf cantrips. Keep in mind that they're probably considered in the context of a wizard casting them, rather than a fighter, but the points noted there are worth considering regardless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I totally forgot to think about utilities, thanks. also the site is awesome, thanks for that as well. We have a kender bard and a highelf mage in the mix already, so I think they'll be much better at creative magic use and I don't want to "overdo" it (I heard magic in Dragonlance is rather rare). My Inteligence is 14 though, mind you.^^ It's that dangerous middleground where you feel smarter than many (and like to show it), but aren't anywhere near the really smart people. Roleplay potential yay!