Facing a Fighter? Don’t fear. They are typically extra meat than protect. We’ve bought you lined, right here’s tips on how to shut down a Fighter in D&D.

Fighters might be intimidating opponents at first look. They’re huge, beefy, and lined in metallic armor. Often they’re wielding greatswords or polearms. And once they’re enemies, Fighter varieties often have multiattack and extra hit factors per hit cube than most different monsters.

As the previous D&D adage goes, “kill the mage first.” It’s a Fighter’s job to try to preserve you from doing that. So if you wish to kill the mage first, right here’s how one can shut down the Fighter standing in your means.

Move Out of Range

One of the restrictions that the majority Fighter kind NPCs have is that they’ll actually solely stand in your means at brief distances. Sure, the odd Fighter might need a ranged assault possibility as effectively. But usually that’s simply throwing the spear they had been holding.

Or at larger ranges, loading up a crossbow to do much less harm. One of the perfect issues you are able to do to close them down is to remain out of their vary. After all, they’ll’t hit you if they’ll’t get to you. Mobility spells like Longstrider and Haste can preserve you out of their attain, whereas additionally supplying you with sufficient motion pace to hit and run them into the bottom.

Crowd Control

Another good method to take care of a Fighter is to fall again on MMO terminology and take a look at your “crowd control” choices. Spells like Hold Person or Banish or Polymorph and even Tasha’s Hideous Laughter can shortly take away a Fighter from the battle. You might solely get a spherical or two of them incapacitated, however most Fighters aren’t the hardiest in the case of making the saves that Hold Person or THL goal. So you might need longer than you assume.

Make certain you’re able to capitalize on the opening so you will get to the mage they had been protected earlier than they get again up.

Disarm Them

Take away a Fighter’s weapons, and there’s not a lot they’ll do. Sure it’s not as efficient as immediately paralyzing them, however in the event you don’t have entry to that, think about using the Disarm guidelines, that are discovered within the least-read D&D e-book, the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

The means it really works is, you make an assault roll contested by the goal’s Athletics or Acrobatics test, and in the event you win, the assault causes no harm, however the defender drops the merchandise. Then all you want is an motion to seize the weapon — have a celebration member with mobility swoop in and seize it, or use Mage Hand to telekinetically take the weapon out of the Fighter’s attain, and also you’ve shut them down.

Move Them Out of Reach

Fighters are inclined to lack the mobility choices that different lessons have. They don’t get elevated pace like Barbarians, and may’t use bonus actions to sprint as Monks and Rogues can. They’re simply type of on their very own and should hope a 30 ft. transfer is sufficient.

So use that lack of attain in opposition to them in a extra proactive means. Reposition the fighter — although teleport spells that work on enemies are few, they’re on the market. And you may usually take an opponent out of the battle by simply transferring far sufficient away (solely be sure to’ve bought a fast means again, in any other case you’re not doing your self any favors).

But even spells like Levitate or Telekinesis can work, since they take the Fighter off of the bottom and maintain them in place, or not less than forestall them from reaching most opponents.

Wall Off

Since Fighters lack any form of magical capacity (with uncommon exceptions), magic is very efficient at shutting them down. And magic wall spells are in all probability the best means. Just entice a Fighter in a dome of ice, a dice of pressure, or another magical obstacle that they haven’t any technique of coping with and also you’ve bought ’em out of the battle so you may kill the precise risk, the mage.

Then you may return and kill the Fighter at your leisure later

Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and every so often eats sandwiches. You can ask him about both at [email protected]

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