So we’re at the start of a war where, thanks to saving a GOO Warlock and getting help from her connections, we’re coming up from the sewers closer to the middle of town while allies attack from opposite sides of the Drow capital.

While our 160 soldiers went off to secure the borders of the market district as our safe house/staging point, my party (5 level 12 characters, a Half Orc Berserker Barbarian, an Eladrin Celestial Warlock, a part panther Halfling Scout Rogue, a Kobold Rune Knight Fighter, and a Half Goblin/Half Yuan Ti Glamour Bard) stayed behing to go through the 50 CR1/4 Drow warriors in the area we’re in as the war is kicking off.

Yes, I know they’re they’re only CR1/4, but because their HP was just high enough, this actually did end up being more efficient as I was trying to conserve resources as it may be a bit before we can short rest.

As it stands, my Eldritch Blast is 1d10+4 per dart, and these guys had 13 HP, so any given dart on it’s own had a high chance to not secure a kill if I was going one dart per enemy.

With Green-flame Blade, my initial attack would be 1d6+4+2d8 and the rider would be 2d8+8 (since Radiant Soul can add my CHA to fire damage spells when cast, I could have added it to either but kept it to the rider). This just ended up being a more consistent damage in the amount I needed, and the total max is about the same, just split between two targets

I honestly didn’t even stop to think it was magic. My Autumn side just made a donation of 2 plat to the church (Of the Gnomish kindly trickster god, who teaches and takes. Temple was more like a comfy little home with a fireplace), made a prayer and the old lady minding the place from her rocking chair gave me a flute

So…Just have curses be permanent? Why?

It’s a thing about Law, specifically the realm of Law, Mechanus, who’s power I would guess they carry with them.

One of the (I think optional in 5e) realm rules for Mechanus is you do not make attack rolls. Instead, you treat any roll as a 10 and add your stat and proficiency as the realm removes the idea of random chance and focuses on clockwork regularity. Even damage die default to their average, which makes combat a lot more straight forward but also means you can come up on something you literally cannot hurt.

There’s a handy common level magic item in Xanathar’s Guide, called the Clockwork Amulet, which let’s you skip an attack roll and just take it as a ten, and do so once per day (No attunement, resets at sunrise). It’s a good thing in certain situations

He rose to godhood a century ago using six magical crystal gems, and in doing so both felled an Orc god and an evil Orc champion, the foul Ho’Gann

I remember a point where Magneto trapped Red Skull in a metal bunker underground with just bare minimum supplies then sealed the place