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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRGreathouse" data-source="post: 2597865" data-attributes="member: 474">There's no fission in the sun -- and why would there be?  It's endothermic for all elements as light or lighter than iron.  It's all fusion in the sun.Please note "hence why" is redundant.  "Hence I said it'd be a good idea" (et al.) suffices.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> I don't think they'll prize them as much as immunities, although they'll try to get them nontheless.  The problem with immunities here is that with any fixed price, PCs of a sufficiently high level are almost guarenteed to have the immunity, which changes the landscape of challenges.Certainly this is true.  Of course, it also gives PCs more options, which can be both good and bad.  In the extreme case, where monsters are immune to too much as a baseline, the game becomes less fun.  In the other extreme, where monsters aren't immune to what they "should" sensibly be immune to, players get a sense of sameness -- everything burns, everything freezes, etc.This is a valid point.I think this is a terrible, senseless, flavor-destroying system.  You're immune to most everything or nothing; it's like 2E weapon immunity, which was worse than 3.0 damage reduction, which was less flavorful than 3.5 damage reduction.But that's just my opinion.It'd not a large part of his stance -- it's a sidebar presented as an "exaggeration" and a "corner case".If the idea of infinite reversals was the real problem, then that would be a fair point.  It's not; no one is seriously suggesting that.  How do you react to this more salient quote from Sean's article:"The dorky thing about the actual feat that Megaflames is based on is that it doesn't increase your fire damage against anything but fire-immune creatures ... so your "super-hot" fire spells don't do any more fire damage to 99% of your targets!"That seems much more relevant and interesting, and makes a better point against Megaflames IMO.</blockquote>

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