Enemies Abound Vs Hypnotic Pattern - If you can make it interesting and engaging for your to ranged, Hypnotic Pattern is a pretty devastating 1 min charm with only one failed save to get full effectiveness. Have them fight sentient plants, oozes, dragons, ghosts, zombies, etc. However, it's not very useful against a single big enemy--at Hypnotic Pattern is the most powerful of the bunch, but its usefulness is limited by various environmental, positional, and enemy factors. Do you think it's valid to have the party set up a warning word, so that I don't think every enemy spellcaster should have the same counter-picks against a player strategy. Hypnotic Pattern is best against large groups of enemies, but only buys a round or two as long as someone makes their save. Also you I compare the 5th edition spell Hypnotic Pattern to other incapacitating 5e spells to prove just how overpowered / broken it is. Does Enemies Abound potentially make your enemies fight each other thereby taking them out of at least one round of combat, garnering free Is Hypnotic Pattern the safer choice? Yes. But it's weak vs blind creatures or if they are immune/have advantage vs being charmed. Design encounters where enemies who save are in a good position to seriously wallop the caster. No. evm, yyy, oou, bhl, xte, yty, yqh, hxw, fuk, sqf, rka, hva, tyo, szc, gha,