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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4686527" data-attributes="member: 29398">Late to the party as usual, and having just waded through all this, a few random thoughts leap to mind:1. It's an extremely valid point that something special made ordinary isn't special any more.  Example: Magic Missile.  In all previous editions it was at least somewhat special, as it could only be cast so many times a day.  Now, it's ordinary - a Wizard has a limitless number of bullets in her gun and never has to reload.  2. I'm going to hazard a guess that one of the things behind the OP's original ideas is that having magic-based at-wills e.g. Magic Missile simply puts too much magic in the game; hence, a desire to reduce such.  Please correct me if I'm wrong on this.  But the archetype of the full-time Wizard who can only cast so many spells of any type over a day and the rest of the time has to rely on weapons (example: Gandalf) falls apart when they can cast all day.3. If removing at-wills causes concern that combats will grind even longer, there's a simple solution: reduce everyone's hit points - character, monster, whatever; except of course minions - by a blanket percentage.  Let's say, a 50% reduction.  That will make combats on average last half as long (probably less, in fact, as the ratio of encounter powers to at-wills/basics will be higher), and add some randomness and swinginess back in.4. If the math really is as finely-tuned as is suggested a few posts upthread, such that a character is essentially useless (as opposed to slightly less effective) without one high stat, that to me is a serious problem of overdesign.5. I'm not sure if this came from a long-ago article in Dragon, or whether it's a homebrew from the dark ages, but the Elvish deity of the bow has always to us been Rillifane.  Her consort, Corellon, uses the sword.Lanefan</blockquote>

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