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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CinnamonPixie" data-source="post: 4099106" data-attributes="member: 59187">Well at least in 3.5 I CAN do something else other than the one or two per day and per encounter spells than "magic missile, magic missile, magic missile"... And frankly, being able to do it at will every round of every minute of every combat, all day long is just pathetically cheap and stupid. Let's face it, NO good fantasy book has ever seen a party so well stocked, prepared, safe, etc that they didn't have concerns about their equipment and the need to rest to recoup and recharge and prepare for upcoming challenges. Taking that element out of the game cheapens the entire feel of an adventure by likening the grueling encounter-by-encounter exploration/clearing of a dungeon/ruins/whatever to being a 2-hour movie without the need for anything resembling reality and/or sensibility. You may as well have arrows that never run out by default and a seeming endless healing... oops, never mind I guess that last one they've already made steps towards including, haven't they?*yawn* so instead of thinking and planning and doing all that "investment into my character" I can sit back and play playstation during the combat and roll the to-hit and damage dice mindlessly doing the same magic missile over and over and tune in when combat's over - after all, it's going to be nothing but the same old thing over and over - and silly powers names and abilities names or not - that's not "more fun." More power doesn't mean it's more fun.... And D&D has always been a character-driven game, it was made to recreate the adventures of the great fantasy novels those were rich in combat and magic and powerful artifacts and monsters - but they were dominated by the stories of the characters that used and/or fought those elements. Ripping out the "little things" that allow a Wizard a lot of flexibility to slim down the list to a mindlessly simplistic limited choice list is not "more fun" to me... even if I can do more damage and do magic missile until I've whittled chessboard piece out of what once was a mountain. Where's the "caution" the "planning" the risk!? Yeah it sucks to have a character die, or to go really big in a combat to realize it was a trap, a ruse to do just that - sap your strength, but that's part of the evil genius of the evil bad guy. Knowing it could happen and trying to plan and account for it and all that epic heroic wisdom that comes from knowing the fight isn't always as simple as it seems and not always the goal (such as the ruse fight to sap the party before the real fight begins) is part of what it means to be a hero and an adventurer. If you have no fear of running low on anything or no risk of over exerting yourself there's no reason to bother restraining and therefore no reason to bother playing - there's no challenge when you have limitless power to eventually whittle down your enemies with - at that point it becomes a game of lucky die rolls to hit and to do more damage as a pathetic over-hyped power-gamers war of attrition - and nothing else.</blockquote>

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