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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 7640815" data-attributes="member: 6906155">So what? Some spells are better than others, this has always been the case, and Vampiric Touch has always sucked.But it's better than Counterspell if no one is casting spells at you.This is the big wizard shtick. You prepare Counterspell if you expect to fight casters. You don't prepare it if you aren't. For sorcerers its a different matter. I know one sorcerer who doesn't currently have Counterspell since there is a wizard in the party and up to date one counterspeller has been sufficient.The impression I'm getting is your game is quite high level and largely consists of samey encounters with wizards. And your players get quickly bored with tactical play and just want to blow stuff up.They would do more damage with a staff (+2 Str), if they weren't wielding a battleaxe. HP (+2 Con) and AC (chainmail) aren't that ropy either. It's not "adversarial" to use knowledge of the party to design encounters to be interesting for that party.Nor is it "adversarial" to have intelligent enemies prepare intelligently.It's a bad workman who blames his tools. It may be your tactics that are borked, not the spell.</blockquote>