Originally Posted by Frumpkis
I don't know much about 5e and only know D&D from other CRPGs using 3rd edition rules. So I looked up harpies:

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Harpy#content

The monster description doesn't say that Silence can stop the song. Harpies could be sui generis, not spellcasters as such, although it has a spell-like effect.

At any rate, I don't think Silence should work on them because that encounter, even at a lower level, just isn't that difficult. The song lure just forces your party member to get closer to the harpy if they fail the save roll, and that's not a bad thing unless it's your squishy mage.



Well. generally creature charts don't mention tactics and/specific spells useful against them, leaving the players to figure that out and the DM to decide what works in his campaign. It can contain information about generic resistance and immunities though. Like golems are usually resistant/immune to magic or elementals being resistant to the particular element they are from etc. But over all, spells and weapons work more or less on every creature as to not gimping a party composition too much in any given campaign. And seeing as I personally love playing those squishy mages, I very much want for my spells to be useful against those harpies especially since "singing" by definition is something that should be able to be silenced smile
As for the difficulty of the encounter, I think you will find that many players don't agree with you smile