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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laslo Tremaine" data-source="post: 2177133" data-attributes="member: 330">The 5th edition makes a couple fairly serious changes.• Character generation has been tweaked a bit  to be more consistant with experience progression in play, and is an improvement in my view.• The effect of The Gift (the abilty to do magic) on mundanes has been clarified and expanded.  It used to be that a gifted individual would have a -3 penalty on all social interactions with mundanes.  The idea being that the ability to do magic made the magus inherently creepy. In the 5th edition they have made it so that The Gift is so unnerving to mundanes as to make casual interaction with strangers virtually impossible.  This is somewhat of a good thing since it makes companion characters more valuable, but a number of people have problems with this change.• Spells have been slightly tweaked to be more internally consistent.  Another improvement.• Spell resistance and penetration has been radically altered.  It used to be that you would compare your casting total to the spell resistance total and if the casting total was higher the spell would effect the target.  The upshot of this is that a more powerful caster would prevail over a weaker caster.  That is no longer the case.  Now you first compare the difference between the casting total and the level of the spell being cast.  This difference is compared to the resistance total, and if the difference is greater, the spell penetrates. The upshot to this is that weaker spells cast by more experience magi, have a greater chance of penetrating...  I think that I do not like this new method and we may go back to the previous way of doing it.• Combat has been radically changed (as is traditional for pretty much every edition) and is kinda odd (mainly the way damage is handled).  We've been playing 5th edition for three sessions now, and still don't fully understand it.Those are the main changes in the 5th edition that I can think of off the top of my head.</blockquote>

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