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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9209512" data-attributes="member: 9254">The links work for me on android/chrome so...shrug.You mention fireball. It's a prime example of how you can't look at each rule in a vacuum, you have to look in context.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1e had different ranges indoor/outdoor, saves were completely different and fireball was a volume of like 33x 10ft cubes not a radius. (&quot;Backblast&quot; was a horrifying term many tables learned)Less specifically concentration spells didn't exist, spell durations were different, ASIs didn't exist but fighter's had the 18/xx chart so a 19 str gauntlet was massive, and classes had different xp tables per class so you didn't have a 12th level rogue and a 12th level wizard who had earned the same XP.Arcane Recovery applies for the day but not for a specific encounter, which means it comes down to the table's encounters/day and availability of rest time.I like that earlier editions meant you didn't need a &quot;countercaster&quot; character specifically to deal with enemy casters.&nbsp; I don't think that you can have that with loss of spell slot in combination with 5e only giving 1-2 slots at 6-9.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 9209512, member: 9254"] The links work for me on android/chrome so...shrug. You mention fireball. It's a prime example of how you can't look at each rule in a vacuum, you have to look in context. 1e had different ranges indoor/outdoor, saves were completely different and fireball was a volume of like 33x 10ft cubes not a radius. ("Backblast" was a horrifying term many tables learned) Less specifically concentration spells didn't exist, spell durations were different, ASIs didn't exist but fighter's had the 18/xx chart so a 19 str gauntlet was massive, and classes had different xp tables per class so you didn't have a 12th level rogue and a 12th level wizard who had earned the same XP. Arcane Recovery applies for the day but not for a specific encounter, which means it comes down to the table's encounters/day and availability of rest time. I like that earlier editions meant you didn't need a "countercaster" character specifically to deal with enemy casters. I don't think that you can have that [i]with loss of spell slot[/i] in combination with 5e only giving 1-2 slots at 6-9. [/QUOTE]

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