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Message: <blockquote data-quote="procproc" data-source="post: 6543731" data-attributes="member: 6791328">I'm running one game and (soon to be) playing in another. I'm not at all fond of the damage checks on concentration spells.DMing: My players are relatively new and not terribly rules savvy, so they don't pay too much attention. I've house-ruled away the damage save for concentration spells, and I don't think any of my players are aware there's a chance they'd be losing their spells on taking damage.Playing: I'll be playing a Bladelock. I intend to take Hex for use when I'm long-range, and otherwise avoid concentration spells like the plague.I understand the concern about buff stacking, and it was out of control in 3.x. It's definitely closer to balanced now than it was then, but I'm of the opinion it's swung too far in the other direction. Especially for front-line casters, the chance of losing your spells is just too great unless the payoff is huge. Even if you're not a front-line caster, you're more likely to get targeted by ranged attackers to try to break your buffs on the front-liners.Having a one-buff limit is fine, but I don't think "concentration" is the best way to do it. I'd rather have it explicitly be a "one buff limit" on each character, so you can only benefit from one beneficial ongoing effect at a time. As it stands now, a sorcerer (say) is required to choose between buffing a party member and casting a Flaming Sphere. That just feels really strange. You could still have "concentration" as a limit on spells like Hold Person, and still have damage-based interruption for those effects. I mean, taken to its logical extreme, under the current rules you can have a fighter and a dozen casters guarding a castle wall, and the casters all buff the fighter with concentration effects so he's a Flying Hasted Blessed etc. killing machine. PCs pulling that off isn't a practical concern, but it's still possible to do.I don't know. I'm really disappointed in the execution of the concentration mechanic. As much as I like other aspects of 5e, it's almost enough to make me move to a different system.</blockquote>

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