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<blockquote data-quote="Tranquilis" data-source="post: 7730085" data-attributes="member: 71124"><p>I loved 5e _except_ for the cantrip system. To me, it made the casters woefully bland. It mattered little what the description of a damage-causing cantrip was, for instance: it was just another 1dX attack repeated round after round. Even the PCs tired of it eventually. </p><p></p><p>Like the Coke bottle in "The Gods Must Be Crazy", I dumped my 5e books and my village is a simpler, happier place for it.</p><p></p><p>Yes, you can stare, and no need to whisper: I'm used to it</p><p></p><p>Cantrips are meant for color and creativity. In fact, they beg for it. There are several official and quasi-official systems to give low-level PCs a fair or even unlimited number of these minor magicks - even for other character classes. Many of these came from 1e and 2e. </p><p></p><p>Magic users are not unacceptably, irredeemably weak at low level. They simply require a different type of play style from other character classes. The well-timed Sleep spell followed by skulking behind the fighter until the next morn appeals to some like me!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tranquilis, post: 7730085, member: 71124"] I loved 5e _except_ for the cantrip system. To me, it made the casters woefully bland. It mattered little what the description of a damage-causing cantrip was, for instance: it was just another 1dX attack repeated round after round. Even the PCs tired of it eventually. Like the Coke bottle in "The Gods Must Be Crazy", I dumped my 5e books and my village is a simpler, happier place for it. Yes, you can stare, and no need to whisper: I'm used to it Cantrips are meant for color and creativity. In fact, they beg for it. There are several official and quasi-official systems to give low-level PCs a fair or even unlimited number of these minor magicks - even for other character classes. Many of these came from 1e and 2e. Magic users are not unacceptably, irredeemably weak at low level. They simply require a different type of play style from other character classes. The well-timed Sleep spell followed by skulking behind the fighter until the next morn appeals to some like me! [/QUOTE]
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