Zardnaar
Legend
How do you figure? Not necessarily disagreeing, but those old tables were a bit goofy IMO, so curious to hear the rationale. Trying to square peg/round hole in game events into this table... oy. The blacksmith just emptied a bucket of hot coals towards me. He did look like he put his back into it and fired it super hard, so maybe it's a ray? They look pretty fiery... dragon breath? Maybe that mini-game is part of the appeal?
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Basically at higher levels we went from making saves 75-95% of the time to failing saves a similar amount.
High level fighters in 2E were still very viable and useful to have around.
5E isn't as bad as 3.5 and espically 3.0 but a T Rex for example fails a vad save around 75% of tge time while an AD&D one makes its save around 75% of the time.
In 5E this also means if you dont know what spells to use pick ones targeting intelligence or charisma. Avoid ones targeting constitution espicially if it's also poison damage.
Intelligence saves spells were rare until Xanathars/Tashas.