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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3848105" data-attributes="member: 710">Possible. Though it might be that it will just be "the other faction" that will complain more about that. (It's their turn, after all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )I think two things made things worse over time: 1) Shorter Duration for Buffs. In 3.0, the stat boosters had a duration measured in hours. People learned to rely on them. In 3.5, their duration changed to one minute per level. People still preferred to rely on them (and I argue the system and the adventure paths "agree" with them).2) Spells that have a Swift casting time are usually compensated with a low duration. Unfortunately this means you can turn out more spells in a short period of time, but can only rely on them for a short moment.I think some of the mechanical ideas were good - Swift Actions and related spells/abilities felt nice, but they don't work with tightly limited spell slots. That the stat buffs had a fixed bonus was a good change, but reducing their duration didn't help much.</blockquote>