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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdweller00" data-source="post: 8846860" data-attributes="member: 6778479">One of the things I've personally been a bit iffy on in 5e so is the idea of cantrips being the base attack routines of casters in 5e.  Or at least being able to fire energy bolts at will.  Doing so kinda makes the magic feel... less magical... to me?  Amongst other things it seems generally too easy to bypass regeneration, or physical damage resistance.  One alternative I've toyed with conceptually would be to have "magically enhanced" weapon attacks that scale as energy cantrips used to.  Example: You could have some "magestrike" or "anoint weapon" ability, using a staff/crossbow/dart as the base damage dice, scaling every 5 levels as cantrips presently do, with a spell attack bonus.  But still dealing physical damage as a nonmagic weapon.Back in the 1e/2e days piddly M-U weapon attacks did negligible damage; but could still disrupt another casters' spells for the round, so still had control uses.</blockquote>