The same thing a green flame blade does against a creature that's immune to ice.
As long as you don't change to a damage type that's much stronger (e.g. changing fire damage to acid damage) you're not breaking too much.
I know. She curses like a fucking peasant.
not particularly, because there are obvious advantages to just changing things like elements willy nilly
i would note though, your bard could have yelled for everyone to shut the fuck up THEN cast the spell, and it would have given the same effect
Bladelock is basically a crappier version of what eldritch knight gets. Not only that, warlocks aren't intended for melee combat, and you have to get invocations to make it viable.
Pact of the chain is pretty popular, and is regarded as pretty nice overall since it gives you an invisible minion for scouting and pickpocketing and minor things.
Pact of the tome can do the same job as the other two, but usually worse. It's the generalist option. Pact of the tome allows:
>better non-MAD melee fighting with shillelagh
>options aside from eldritch blast such as sacred flame if you're up against a radiant vulnerable creature with high AC. Still, attack cantrips aren't high on the list as eldritch blast is usually the best.
>through book of ancient secrets, 'find familiar' for a lesser familiar and many other rituals
>spells such as guidance and resistance without multiclassing
>vicious mockery, though mostly for a fluff attack so you can hurt people's minds with your words
Book of ancient secrets is best if you do not have a wizard. If you have a wizard, might not be worth bothering with.
And, no, you do not get magic resistance from your pact of the chain familiar.
>The problem comes when fluff meets crunch. What does Violet-Ice Blade do against a creature that's immune to fire?
If it's refluffed to be ice themed, I'd assume the DM would have it do cold damage rather than fire damage. The spell is functionally the same so it's not a big change.
What does your death god want? If it's the killing of things, then my devotion paladin wouldn't get along with you. But if your death god is for the natural order, where everything dies, and everything lives, then I could play it as a true neutral alignment. Maybe a lich is coming to power, and breaking the rules of how everything must die eventually is against everything your cleric stands for.
As said, that's not very good roleplay simply for the choice of words.
Something better would be
>"Good heavens. A gnome of all things thinks they're great. I bet your magic tricks only fool a peasant crowd because you're too small for anyone to even regard you in the first place."
Just flat-out bluntly swearing in such an uncouth manner is something peasantry do. This still applies, even in the 21st century - high class peoples tend to make much less use of slang and blatant swear words.
So how would you react if you find out that a friendly NPC is a fiend? What if the NPC have been helpful not just to the party but also to the nearby city? What if it have children that you also detected are fiends. Oath of the Ancients here and I'm leaning towards my Oath first tenet but there is also the whole training to basically kill creatures like that.
Its hard man
It could be.
If it did thunder damage, for example, thunder is much less often resisted.
However, I think fire and ice are roughly on par as two of the most resisted types of elements, close to lightning. As such, I doubt it'd matter much.
So, we know so far that Volo's Guide is going to give us Orcs, Goblins, Firbolgs, Tritons, Catfolk and Aasimar. Anyone else heard any rumors about races it's going to be packing? Or got specific races they want to see?
Me, I'd kind of like to see kobolds, personally. I don't know if they could pull it off, but FR's Saurials - dinosaur people from AD&D - might be entertaining due to sheer gonzo appeal. I figure Aquatic Elves and/or Avariel (winged elves) are pretty freaking inevitable. Maybe we'll get Tanar'ruks (or however you spell it; tiefling-orcs) and/or Fey'ri (tiefling-elves), too.
What do you think?
Are there any good feats for a chainlock? I was going to play as a variant human but since my build isn't feat dependant, I may just go tiefling.