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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6829557" data-attributes="member: 22779">Ever increasingly, I'm starting to feel that no, magic isn't all that magical.  It's just become so commonplace that it might as well not be magic at all.  IME, this is due to two factors - 1.  The upward spiral of just how much magic a character can use during an encounter and, 2.  The number of magic using classes in the group.Remember, typical groups used to be 3 fighter types, a cleric, wizard and thief.  You only really had two spell casters and one of them had virtually no spells that applied in combat.  Sure, you might be dropping Cure Lights after a combat, but, in combat?  The cleric was far more likely to be a front line fighter than a spell caster.  So, you really only had one character casting spells in a given encounter, and even then, probably only one or two spells for the entire encounter.Compare to now.  It's not unreasonable to have a group where 5 out of the 6 characters have spells that they can cast, and every class has spells that directly relate to combat and are widely applicable.  Water Breathing might be a great spell, but, it's a pretty limited use choice.  Now, every class has several broadly applicable spells at every single level.  Plus the ability to jack up lower level spells into higher level slots for increased utility as well.  I've been beating this drum for a while, but, I do think it's a valid complaint (or I wouldn't be beating this drum... durrr).  We've gone from a system where you might see a couple of spells cast in an entire encounter to a system where you see multiple spells being cast every single round of every encounter.  Plus, with at-will utility spells, we can easily see magic being used in every single encounter period.  It's very likely in a campaign to have magic being used in combat and out for every single scenario throughout the entire campaign.D&D has dialed up magic to about an 8 out of 10 with 5e.  And I'm feeling a bit bummed about it.</blockquote>

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