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"Damage now is better than damage later"
Death is the ultimate CC.

I thought the sneeze was a mistake … until I realized it was not.  Brilliant!

0:24 Bless you!

Honestly had no idea Bless was this good. Makes me glad I always open up combat with a casting of it

Bless is one of my favorite spells, it so easy to cast, and yet it makes the whole party feel like gods!

Rolling an extra dice feels so good AND each +1 is an extra 5% chance of success.

It's 5e version of 3rd edition's haste. It such a good boost

Banes usefulness grows as the party reaches higher levels and encounters more enemies with legendary resistance, assuming you have more than one caster in the party. Either they use their one of their very limited LRs on a 1st level spell or they become much more likely to fail some real save or suck spells and have to use their future LRs more quickly.

I made a paladin with bless before. I would make some dialogue to hype my character up and would start round 1 by blessing the entire party to pretend my characters precence gave them confidence and hope.

Once my inner math demon reached to the outside world and I did some math about bless in comparison to haste and protection from energy. IMHO bless is just one of the best spells in the game, outperforming offensive spells in terms of added damage as well as defensive spells in terms of prevented damage. I even prefer bless over gift of alacrity with fey touched. It is just so simple, yet so effective.

I hope gator sticks around and doesn't leave to make his own channel

Kobold your channel just keeps getting better. Bless you

I admit, this is one reason I like Grave Cleric: they don't have to choose between Bane and Bless because they get Bane automatically, so you just prepare bless. Then if you're in a situation where Bane would be the better choice, you can use it, but if that doesn't come up, you haven't wasted a spell slot on it.

Then again, Grave Cleric is one of my favorite subclasses, so I don't really need more reasons to like it.

Bless is a great spell, and thanks to the fey touched feat, anyone can learn it!

👜+🪈+🐊 = yip yip

Gator snoring was the highlight of my day. Thanks!

Another cool thing about Bless is targeting yourself as the caster of Bless. Since it's a concentration spell and it adds a d4 to Saves, it gives you better chances to maintain concentration as it's a Constitution Save.

gator: if you fail this concentration check, will you die?
kobold: it would be extremely painful
gator: you're a small guy
kobold: for you

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Bless is good times. Bane is a spell slot you could be using on Bless.