Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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I'm DMing my first campaign in two weeks and one of my players are playing a fighter Aarakocra. Now this wouldn't be a problem usually. BUT THIS IS THIS PERSONS FIRST TIME PLAYING DND! I can only imagine the shenanigans that he will be able to cause with being able to fly and action surge!
Umm, assuming they’re an archer, I guess they’ll shoot an extra time 1/rest?
I don’t see the problem here. Flying isn’t nearly as OP as people think. It can make some exploration challenges easier, but in combat, the flier is just hanging up there as a big target with no cover from enemy ranged attacks. And if they get him to 0, he takes fall damage and starts with a failed death save.
And indoors, flying doesn’t help at all.
In addition to what Xalthu posted, anything that can drop the flyers movement speed to 0 will cause them to instantly fall too.
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Flying Creatures? Here in 2024 DND, those are a joke. Just got my trusty trident, and we're all set!
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I didn't think about the fact that action surge is good but flying sucks