Conjure woodland beings pixie4/3/2023 ![]() Yes, they do have Superior Invisibility and a good Stealth bonus but what can they really use that for? Superior Invisibility is a concentration-based ability, which means they cannot cast another concentration spell while invisible, and the majority of its spells require concentration, the only 2 that don't are Dispel Magic and Sleep. Druidcraft, the only spell they can use at will is basically a parlour trick, not really useful for anything. They can cast a couple of spells once per day each and that's basically all they are capable of. Out of all its spells, only a single one is even capable of directly dealing damage. Anything that hits one is going to kill it. They have 1d4-1 hit points - the lowest of all CR 1/4 creatures in MM and even less than a lot of CR 0 creatures have. Lots of creatures will do much better or much worse depending on which allies they have to round out the encounter, and challenge rating doesn’t account for that. Pixies aren’t the only creature with similar issues. This is just one of the limitations of challenge rating that DMs need to be aware of. Pixies can be overpowered in certain party compositions, but Challenge Rating only considers the properties of the creature, not the encounter design the creature is placed into. A pixie flying around by itself can barely do anything to harm you.Īnother way to look at it as that the thing that is broken about pixies is outside the scope of Challenge Rating. This is why conjure woodland beings is borked - it puts 8 polymorph casting creatures into the hands of the leveled party. ![]() The pixie can’t create a giant ape unless it has a level 8 or CR 8 ally to target. Stronger allies means stronger targets for polymorph. ![]() By itself, it’s significantly weaker than most CR 1/4 creatures. When it uses polymorph, it is limited to changing itself into a CR 1/4 or power beast. It has one damaging spell which it can cast one per day, and it can cast polymorph once per day. In a vacuum, the pixie statblock is actually pretty unremarkable. ![]()
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