By causing your grappling ally to grow, they will not only get advantage on their Strength checks and extra damage on weapon attacks, but they will be able to grapple and shove even larger creatures. Even with the Grappler feat, grappling often doesn’t feel like a powerful strategy. Perhaps the best use for enlarge/reduce in combat is to aid an ally that specializes in grappling when they fight.
Your only option, then, would be to play one of these classes, multiclass into one to get access to 2nd-level magic, or to find an item that has charges of the spell.
There are no subclasses that gain this spell, and since it is a 2nd-level spell you won’t be able to access it with a feat like Magic Initiate. Who Can Cast Enlarge/Reduce?Įnlarge/reduce is only available to three classes: artificers, sorcerers, and wizards. Note that you cannot get bigger than Large using enlarge/reduce, as all playable races are Small or Medium and multiple instances of the spell do not stack with each other.
Additionally, you can move through the space of a hostile creature that is at least two sizes larger or smaller than you, so managing to become Tiny would give you an edge there. You can only grapple and shove creatures that are no greater than one size larger than you, so enlarging a friend may open up the possibility of them being able to grapple a particularly bulky enemy. Naturally, you take up more space when you are larger, effectively increasing the opportunities for other creatures to count as adjacent to you. Size also affects interactions on the battlefield. Each size above Medium gets to double these amounts, while Tiny creatures halve these amounts. One of the greatest impacts size has is on carrying capacity and how much a creature can push, drag, or lift. Size dictates quite a few attributes when creating monsters, but when it comes to player characters, size is less of a determining factor. What Creature Sizes MeanĬreatures in D&D are divided into six size categories: Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge, and Gargantuan. There aren’t many rules for player characters that are a size other than Small or Medium, but we will discuss what we do know. This is probably a question best left up to your DM. Creatures that are size Small have disadvantage on attacks with heavy weapons, so the question is: Does this hold true for shrunken weapons? The weapon would retain the heavy property, but it would also scale down with you from Medium to Small. One of the most contentious aspects of casting enlarge/reduce on a creature is that anything they are wearing or holding also changes size. Given that the target gets disadvantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, and its weapon damage is reduced by 1d4 for the duration, reducing a creature is intended to be used on your enemies. The target’s physical size is halved, its weight is drastically decreased, and its size category goes down by one. Reducing a target essentially does the opposite of what enlarging it would do. The most obvious use of enlarge is to give an ally an edge in battle. The biggest draw here is that the target gains advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, and their weapons deal 1d4 extra damage. To add to this, you cannot target an object that a creature has on their person, so you won’t be able to turn your enemy’s weapons into mini toy versions.Įnlarging a target doubles its physical size and drastically increases its weight, thereby increasing its size category by one, meaning that a Medium creature would become Large. Many creatures you may face in your adventures are quite good at Constitution saving throws, so this spell might not be a reliable option to use against your foes. Keep in mind that an unwilling creature, like an enemy you are fighting, can make a Constitution saving throw to avoid this effect. For up to 1 minute or until you lose concentration, you can cause a creature or object of your choosing to grow larger or smaller. Whether you want to make your barbarian friend even more menacing, or you just want to shrink that fish your neighbor caught so you win the fishing contest, enlarge/reduce has got you covered.Įnlarge/reduce is a 2nd-level transmutation spell. While it might seem simple on the surface, there are plenty of creative ways to make it one of the most potent and versatile spells in your arsenal, both in and out of combat. Today, we’re looking at enlarge/reduce, a useful spell that allows you to change the size of a creature or object of your choosing.
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