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After puzzling for a while on the choices available to my Eldritch Knight for his 1-level martial dip, I thought to myself "golly I wish someone had written an incredibly specific guide for this". So I did! It's specifically measuring the benefits (or lack thereof) for all the classes you can take that grant you proficiency with all martial weapons.
Dalucaray's Guide to the Outsiders of Planar Binding So after some searching I couldn't find a comprehensive guide to what creatures you actually want to summon, which is pretty surprising. I figured hey, if I'm going to sort through every outsider available to me (and I will) I might as well write it down and save it for posterity! So here it is, my first guide. As I write this I've finished everything accessable with Lesser Planar Ally from bestiaries 1-5- I figured I'd finish that before sharing. I'm not super confident about my ratings, so feel free to contest anything. I'm especially unsure on how to value natural multiattack vs. a weapon with a full-round attack. Anyway, enjoy!
I was homebrewing a disease based casting class, specifically based around the spell Contagion, and realized that Witches, possibly the most flavorful disease-based casters, don't have Contagion on their spell list! I assumed that they had a disease hex, like how Druids don't get Beast Shape, so they don't need to use spells for disease, but no, they don't have that easier. To make matters weirder, they DO have Greater Contagion! So the end result here is that Witches, the grodiest, nastiest full caster base class, can't inflict diseases any better than a Commoner until level 9, while clerics and wizards are getting Contagion at level 7 and Druids at level 5. So, does anyone know what's up with that? Was Contagion just too good with Evil Eye? Did witches have a disease hex at some point in design but it was removed and Contagion never put back on the spell list? Or did someone just decide not to give witches contagion just because? (Either way, I'm probably going to houserule witches as getting Contagion as a level 3 spell- earlier than most other full casters, but at the same time as Druids.) Edit: So they can get it from the Plague Patron (in retrospect I really should have checked that earlier), but I dont see why that should exclude it from the base list- there’s plenty of overlap between patron spells and the witch’s spell list.
Do monsters that cast spells as spontaneous casters or as spells-known casters (I don't know if there are any of those, actually) vary their spell lists from individual to individual? Or does every Aranea know Invisibility and Mirror Image as their level 2 spells? I would assume no, but I scoured my Bestiary and have not found any indication one way or the other. In fairness this is more a curiosity question, as I plan to ave monsters knowing whatever is useful to them, but it seems odd to me that I can't find any indication that that's how it should be played. |
