because a shadow drains strength directly, it stays relevant at most levels (no really, I've heard stories of a few shadows tpk-ing high level parties). (2)Changing the creature of a specter to a shadow, with new shadows also being under your control. This would also suit the flavor of the ability a bit better (1)making the maximum number of specters equal to your proficency modifier, and allowing you to gain them from any kill you make (This would set the hexblade difficulty vs the specters as medium at level 6, or easy at with a party of 4, keeping around medium or hard for the warlock alone for the rest of the campaign). Letting him loose wouldn't work, because the specter doesn't raise other specters, and you can only have one specter at a time Intimidation with the specter, as you've mentioned, is up to DM fiat. People expect that beastmaster should give you a badass battle buddy, when it's more useful to have the companion using the help action.Īlso, on the note of unconventional things specters can interact with objects, but they can't move through walls with them. Yes, specter can be useful outside of the combat, on in unconventional non-combat ways, but those things tend to be ways that people tend not to want to play the class in that way. All that to say, it gets a little outclassed outside of combat. And you're expected to fight cr6 creatures - creatures which are supposed to be able to take on four level 6 players. It has 22+3 hp (when you get it), which is enough that a 5th level barbarian with magical greatswordcould probably take it out in 1 turn (40% chance of 25 or higher damage on 4d6+5 ). Lastly, you can only get one cr1 creature from the ability every long rest.

Further, the specter tends to come near the end of the combat, which is when it's least useful Notice, for example, that Travis Willingham has used the accursed specter on critical role once, and it had mostly no use. The problem is that when you get accursed specter (6th level), it's an 'easy' encounter, if you use adjusted xp budgets, or a trivial one if you don't. This is supported by the class's vague and contradicting fluff. The reason most people see the Accursed specter as bad is because Hexblade is a very, very combat centric subclass, therefore drawing mostly combat centric players. What are your thoughts? Does anyone else abuse their pet and seek to keep one around at all times? I mean you have an undead pet that can fly and go through walls. Then I “save the day” by killing them all.Īnyways, I use him for a lot (some I haven’t even posted) and don’t see why people don’t see this as potentially broken as I do. I haven’t done this cuz i don’t want to derail a campaign but I thought about how funny it would be to let him lose at night to kill all the commoners in a village and have them all turn into specters too.

Bandits, goblins, orcs, slaves (my character not exactly the textbook “hero”). He’s easy to get, just land a killing blow on a humanoid (person).

Gives me the help action on attacks and sometimes intimidate (when the DM is so inclined). He has stolen countless things from peoples homes and businesses at night.

He can retrieve things for me with his fly ability. He is a great “meat?” Shield against things that do necrotic damage as he is immune. Even though he has the Incorporeal trait, he does not have the ephemeral trait, meaning he can interact with physical objects. He can’t talk but he can write things down. He’s my scout as he can fly and go through walls. However, I usually use him for other things. He does help fight which that he is meh or ok. For me personally, I get a lot of mileage out of it. So I see a lot of people suggest that the accursed specter ability from the Hexblade is “ok” or “meh”.

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