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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 9216604" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>When you say that you could "otherwise" be "far more effective", you are again completely consumed by the idea magic items are everywhere. If you can be "far more effective" despite another party member (and we could be talking a high-level fighter here) sitting on their hands, I will be impressed. My experience is that a caster will often feel hard-pressed to replicate the kind of hurt a weapon user can dish out.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention the fact that if your fighter buddy is fighting the monsters that means you're not. Which does wonders for survivability.</p><p></p><p>Just saying. Anyway - that magic users spend their concentration helping out a fighter buddy is clearly assumed by WotC to be a reasonable alternative. Just because you feel it is out of the question doesn't make it so.</p><p></p><p>And yes, this means that any time a caster casts Fly or Haste on their fighter buddy doesn't mean they have necessarily betrayed their kind to those "perpetually obligated to act as an enabler".</p><p></p><p>If you don't feel it is fun as a caster to hand the spotlight to your fighter friend, that's okay. But is very clearly one application 5E invites you to try.</p><p></p><p>More to the point, I'm pointing to this spell since it clearly validates the claim that 5E doesn't (strictly) need magic weapons. (And if there are other ways you could get round immunity to non-magical weapons you like better than Magic Weapon, feel free to discuss as if I suggested those instead) Not saying it's the most fun way of playing the game. Saying it is a functional way of playing the game, even if neither you nor I would seriously consider it.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for reading.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 9216604, member: 12731"] When you say that you could "otherwise" be "far more effective", you are again completely consumed by the idea magic items are everywhere. If you can be "far more effective" despite another party member (and we could be talking a high-level fighter here) sitting on their hands, I will be impressed. My experience is that a caster will often feel hard-pressed to replicate the kind of hurt a weapon user can dish out. Not to mention the fact that if your fighter buddy is fighting the monsters that means you're not. Which does wonders for survivability. Just saying. Anyway - that magic users spend their concentration helping out a fighter buddy is clearly assumed by WotC to be a reasonable alternative. Just because you feel it is out of the question doesn't make it so. And yes, this means that any time a caster casts Fly or Haste on their fighter buddy doesn't mean they have necessarily betrayed their kind to those "perpetually obligated to act as an enabler". If you don't feel it is fun as a caster to hand the spotlight to your fighter friend, that's okay. But is very clearly one application 5E invites you to try. More to the point, I'm pointing to this spell since it clearly validates the claim that 5E doesn't (strictly) need magic weapons. (And if there are other ways you could get round immunity to non-magical weapons you like better than Magic Weapon, feel free to discuss as if I suggested those instead) Not saying it's the most fun way of playing the game. Saying it is a functional way of playing the game, even if neither you nor I would seriously consider it. Thanks for reading. [/QUOTE]
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