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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fuindordm" data-source="post: 9641045" data-attributes="member: 5435">Add to those unsafe spells:In AD&D when the fly spell ends you fall, it doesn't change into feather fall.Haste is very powerful but can age the target and force a system shock roll.Contact other plane can drive you insane.Most spells are safe but enough of them aren't that magic feels like it has teeth.Regarding consequences...My last post was short, expressing a subjective and personal feeling I have about how the game has changed. I was not trying to say players don't have interesting choices about builds and tactics. The PC building subgame has grown progressively richer over the editions, and that's generally a good thing. What is less good, and again this is just my personal feeling, is when the races and classes and feats converge into a blandly uniform competence. When species are differentiated by ribbons and all the magic-using classes can pick from each other's spell lists, and you have to squint hard to tell the difference between a cleric and a druid, and you have dex-optimized swashbucklers fighting alongside cha-optimized paladin-warlocks in the front line...Well, I feel let down. As a player and as a DM, I don't like it when there are so many builds, the build hardly matters.So getting back to the OP,  my personal take on a AD&D-ish 5e would dial the character building game back a bit, remove subclasses and feats that let the core niches bleed into each other. Some customization is great but species and class (or multiclass) should be the two biggest picks.</blockquote>

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