Well, but the books say the same, basically, since Hold Person does say "Choose a humanoid that you can see within range.".
Problem is that people "intuitively" think of humanoids as beings with 2 arms, 2 legs, torso and head, while the rules really mean "creatures with Type Humanoid", therefore excluding Vampire/Zombie (type undead), [Tooltip Not Found](type giant), Dryad (type fey), Mind Flayer (type aberration), and probably many more.
Yeah, it would be nice if the official wordings would capitalize things like Humanoid, Beast, Undead, etc. when talking about the specific creature type in spells like Hold Person, Speak With Animals, etc. Kind of like how "attack" means an individual weapon or spell attack, but "Attack" refers to the Attack action.
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Super late to the conversation, but someone making a new warlock might stumble upon this and think it is useful.
One great feature of Faerie Fire is that it stops creatures from using invisibility. Many times that has prevented invisible monster shenanigans for our party.
Also, if you are the sole caster or the utility caster in your party, Pact of the Tome with Book of Ancient Secrets is like packing along an extra magic user. You can spend your time and money between campaigns searching out and buying rituals. Water walk, water breathing and Tiny Hut have all been huge. Also, identify, detect magic, detect evil, augury, comprehend languages, have allowed our wizard to focus on combat spells. I can't overestimate the value of find familiar, floating disc, unseen servant. Having all these rituals at your fingertips when you only have 2 spell slots and a limited spell library is super helpful in my estimation. There are 35 rituals and with a little work you can have them all regardless of what class they are from. And, when you are fully stocked on utility rituals, you can load yourself up with combat and defensive spells.
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Yeah, it would be nice if the official wordings would capitalize things like Humanoid, Beast, Undead, etc. when talking about the specific creature type in spells like Hold Person, Speak With Animals, etc. Kind of like how "attack" means an individual weapon or spell attack, but "Attack" refers to the Attack action.
All this warlock talk has me kind of wanting to play in a warlock-only game. 😬
you mean... "my patron can beat up your patron!" lol
Jesus Saves!... Everyone else takes damage.
ROFL!
Perfect! No repeat patrons with an Eldritch Incantation fantasy draft!
Super late to the conversation, but someone making a new warlock might stumble upon this and think it is useful.
One great feature of Faerie Fire is that it stops creatures from using invisibility. Many times that has prevented invisible monster shenanigans for our party.
Also, if you are the sole caster or the utility caster in your party, Pact of the Tome with Book of Ancient Secrets is like packing along an extra magic user. You can spend your time and money between campaigns searching out and buying rituals. Water walk, water breathing and Tiny Hut have all been huge. Also, identify, detect magic, detect evil, augury, comprehend languages, have allowed our wizard to focus on combat spells. I can't overestimate the value of find familiar, floating disc, unseen servant. Having all these rituals at your fingertips when you only have 2 spell slots and a limited spell library is super helpful in my estimation. There are 35 rituals and with a little work you can have them all regardless of what class they are from. And, when you are fully stocked on utility rituals, you can load yourself up with combat and defensive spells.