Am I misremembering or isn't shove strength dependent? I suppose it may be over-effective in a strength heavy party--but it seems to me that going mostly strength is going to cost the group in other ways.
I don't know exactly how it works NOW in BG3 - they changed it to some weird abomination of counting the Strength VS the Weight of a creature or something.
In proper Tabletop 5E D&D you make a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the target’s Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, and if you win you can shove it 5 feet. The target also has to be only 1 size category larger than you.
Repelling Blast shoves a creature 10 feet, so for shoving it's twice as effective as the Shove action itself. But it triggers PER HIT, and Eldritch Blast gets additional attacks passively as your character levels up, so at level 5 for example you can shove a creature 20 feet, or shove 2 creatures 10 feet each. ALSO RAW Repelling Blast has no size limitation, so you can shove a 100 foot tall Titan off a mountain cliff and watch it go splat.
But here we are forced to watch characters go super-saiyajin for every shove and jump and for people to fly off screen like they are hit by Bruce Lee's One-Inch Punch.
