So Banishment received the following nerfs:I like this nerf, although my o5e house rule had been to restore it to only working on interplanar creatures. What don't you like about it?
1) Duration: Spell went from 1 minute to 1d4 + 2 rounds.
2) The spell now grants a save every round, instead of 1 save for the duration.
3) Upcast only provides 1 round of duration, instead of another target.
I think that's all too much. I don't mind the duration as much, but I don't like the save every round. I personally don't like spells that have concentration AND saves every round. To me, the point of concentration is that the other monsters are supposed to beat on teh caster to make them drop the spell....that's the implicit balance. The idea that the caster has to concentrate and the monster just breaks out of the spell with another save....it nerfs spells too heavily imo.
Then the upcast was heavily nerfed. This used to be a solid spell to upcast into higher level slots, not its pretty worthless to do so. 1 round duration is "nice", but I'm not blowing a 5th level slot on it.
So ultimately one of these I could have respected, but all of them is just too much imo. Banishment was a strong spell but it wasn't THAT strong.