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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 1534968" data-attributes="member: 527">Tangent:  I was discussing with someone the other day whether adding new damage types like Vile is unbalanced in and of itself:In a world where there are few damage types, it's a good idea to cast Resist X or Protection from X on yourself; playing the odds that it will be useful.  This is as the game-designers intended, since they made the durations for these spells 10 min/lvl instead of 1 rd/lvl. But if there are 50 damage types, then it's kinda pointless to use these sorts of protective spells in that way; you'll never have the correct one up when you need it.  So what is the effect of going from 3 major types & 2 minor types (fire/ cold/ electricity v. sonic / acid) to 5 major types (via Energy Substitution) and from there adding another type (Vile)?  I thought it was interesting to look at it that way; I'd have to think on whether I'd allow Vile damage into my campaign for PCs.In defense of Monte: The BovD is really designed for NPCs, not PCs.  So the fact that some of these spells are just crazy in an Evil campaign doesn't surprise me.</blockquote>