Nebulous
Legend
Those are good! I guess pick one and have anything else we can think of posted below
D&D 5E As a DM - Your Top 3 Most Hated Spells
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Those are good! I guess pick one and have anything else we can think of posted below
You left out. "Adversarial & hostile GM Vrs Player solutions to obviously broken spells "
Tony Vargas
Legend
Sorry, missed the pun in that one.
Nebulous
Legend
Doesn't flow.
It's the elephant people are ignoring when saying to "just do xxx" for a lot of these spells
Son of the Serpent
Pupil
I have an idea. Bring back aging but ONLY for the one that created the wish magic. If you die from aging due to this rider effect of wish (not from wishing to age) you turn into an undead on a preset table which no 9th or lower magic can return you to normal from.
This has the added bonus of explaining why you can award people with wishes thay dont age them while also explaining why magic items carrying a wish are so very rare.
Also if you give a ring of three wishes and the party kender bard decides to use the wishes on 3 extremely petty and magically taxing things it would perfectly dovetail into why a vengeful powerful undead mage is following the bard and will stop at nothing to kill them off and remove them from the party. cough sorry. Player killer dm took over my mind for a second there.
toucanbuzz
No rule is inviolate
1. Guidance. I want to take a piss. I cast Guidance. I want to order a sandwich and don't know how much to tip. Guidance. Everything I do in life, Guidance.
2. Healing Spirit. If I had not nerfed this one per Crawford's guidance (total healing capped at 2x casting modifier), would've been totally banned. I have awesome players, because the guy who bought the book and thought about using it said "what can we do to make this happen, because it looks too powerful." Bless you my child.
3. Leomund's Tiny Hut. This spell went from, in prior editions, a basic "protect you from the elements" spell to "complete invulnerability bunker." It's a total BS spell for 3rd level to make you invincible, despite the casting time, and has been the subject of constant debate on its abuse. My solution: find the AD&D version and adopt that. I don't know who was smoking what when they decided to change this one.
2. Healing Spirit. If I had not nerfed this one per Crawford's guidance (total healing capped at 2x casting modifier), would've been totally banned. I have awesome players, because the guy who bought the book and thought about using it said "what can we do to make this happen, because it looks too powerful." Bless you my child.
3. Leomund's Tiny Hut. This spell went from, in prior editions, a basic "protect you from the elements" spell to "complete invulnerability bunker." It's a total BS spell for 3rd level to make you invincible, despite the casting time, and has been the subject of constant debate on its abuse. My solution: find the AD&D version and adopt that. I don't know who was smoking what when they decided to change this one.
Phazonfish
B-Rank Agent
To be fair, the party has two hours of light activity to react, and are limited to things they can do from inside the bubble. The enemy has 8 hours of any kinda activity to prepare for enemies that are limited to a bubble in their own territory. Tiny Hut is definitely a top tier spell, but there is a degree of vulnerability to using it carelessly.
I don't know that I would classify 8 hours as "quick" but I suppose it is heavily context dependent. Of course the rules for resting give the enemy even more time to prepare if the PC's try and abuse it further.
- PC's nova their way in
- Rest in the Hut for 8 hours
- Have a quick 5 minute work day, nova the next encounter
- Set the dome back up
- Twiddle their thumbs for just shy of 16 hours, because you can't long rest more than once/day
- Long rest for 8 hours
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