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I pondered a fantasy heartbreaker that's more or less work like that. Fear, Fireball, and Fly are 3rd rank spells and cost a 3rd rank...
Nov 22, 2025
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If 5e had scrapped basic + magic weapons, every DM and their little dog would have immediately added them back in. Net result: the same...
Nov 22, 2025
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Yeah, but with all the bonuses 5e PCs can stack having non-attunement +1/2/3 items seem very unnecessary.
Nov 22, 2025
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It's not about the damage of upcasted fireball or those other higher level spells. Not being able to upcast spells means that web needs...
Nov 21, 2025
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. It describes how they are a catch 22 no win tool that ultimately forces the GM to choose between what foundational level system...
Nov 21, 2025
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You misread what I originally said. It's d6 damage per level. Period. Thus, 5th-level wizard gets 5d6, 8th-level gets 8d6, 15th level...
Nov 21, 2025
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You "needed" to give out "magic weapons" and "magic armor", have a replacement, or avoid a lot of traditional D&D monsters You needed...
Nov 21, 2025
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I completely agree that idea of next to no magic items in 5E was stupid from the start, it's even worse as there is no replacement for...
Nov 21, 2025
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Not true and 5e itself has over a decade of lip service aimed at GM's supporting me on that. For over a decade now we have heard over &...
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Same opinion. Scaling boom spells are less broken than 3E and 5E save DCs. Remember Warmage being OP in 3.5? Neither do I. 2E...
Nov 21, 2025
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Better fix would be to just let damage spells auto-scale with level like they did in 1e-2e, and ditch upcasting completely. Fireball...
Nov 21, 2025
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It's not just damage per attack and per round that was messed up. Much of the problem is rooted in pointless changes like the shift from...
Nov 21, 2025
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More damage isn't really a solution. 5e stripped down monsters too much and all that was left to handle PCs who were cranked to 11 with...
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