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<blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 2506405" data-attributes="member: 4722">Okay. As 9th level spells go, though, it's not as badly overpowered as some we could name - gate, disjunction, implosion, wish. Gate would be fine if it just made a 2-way gate to any plane - I'd drop it to 8th level, halve the XP cost, and it'd be good to go. Disjunction I made epic. Implosion - kill 1 creature/level? Epic. Wish... I don't know what to do with that, but DM who interprets things literally is a good enough limitation (along with the 5K XP).Except that different spells use different damage types - magic missile uses d4, most energy spells use d6, etc. If you made it a straight number of dice (3rd level - 10, 4th - 12, 5th - 15, etc.) that might work; getting rid of the caps altogether is another viable solution. I never saw the need for caps in any case, but some people point to swarms of magic missiles dealing huge amounts of unavoidable damage. Okay then, drop the damage to 1d4. Our group has a couple spells that protect from force damage; shield has a chance of negating magic missiles, as does a brooch of shielding.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kerrick, post: 2506405, member: 4722"] Okay. As 9th level spells go, though, it's not as badly overpowered as some we could name - gate, disjunction, implosion, wish. Gate would be fine if it just made a 2-way gate to any plane - I'd drop it to 8th level, halve the XP cost, and it'd be good to go. Disjunction I made epic. Implosion - kill 1 creature/level? Epic. Wish... I don't know [i]what[/i] to do with that, but DM who interprets things literally is a good enough limitation (along with the 5K XP). Except that different spells use different damage types - magic missile uses d4, most energy spells use d6, etc. If you made it a straight number of dice (3rd level - 10, 4th - 12, 5th - 15, etc.) that might work; getting rid of the caps altogether is another viable solution. I never saw the need for caps in any case, but some people point to swarms of magic missiles dealing huge amounts of unavoidable damage. Okay then, drop the damage to 1d4. Our group has a couple spells that protect from force damage; shield has a chance of negating magic missiles, as does a brooch of shielding. [/QUOTE]

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