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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aenghus" data-source="post: 6229799" data-attributes="member: 2656">When the Haste spell changed in 3.0 D&D, it granted an extra action, which allowed spellcasting, which made it far more broken for spellcasters than non-spellcasters. Indeed, lots of NPC spellcaster BBEGs had it as one of their spells. It was close to a mandatory choice for those PCs who could make it, which is one definition of broken. And 3.0 spellcasters didn't need a further boost over non-spellcasters.I was very happy to see the revision of the spell in 3.5, which changed it back to a non-spellcaster attack buff like it was in 1e and 2e. The affected players were less happy to have their spellcasters nerfed, but accepted it as it applied to NPCs as well, and double-casting spellcasters are deadly. But the lack of balance in 2e and 3e meant that the option for DM intervention for rebalancing purposes was a regrettable necessity IMO.Action economy improving features are easy to get wrong, and tinkering with well-established PCs is a difficult issue. A fix can change a PC from brokenly good to average or worse than average, which is a severe problem if the player highly values system mastery, as seems to be the case here. So a rules fix may be more palatable with permission for other PC changes to compensate, even a complete rebuild, or introducing a new PC.</blockquote>