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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 4671625" data-attributes="member: 2804">Like I said several posts ago this is the crux of the argument. Are open-ended effects good or bad? And it really depends. In 2e, featherfall gave you the mass of a feather. This made it so you didn't take damage from falling, but also opened itself to all sorts of ridiculous abuses. In a 2e game I played in way back in the day, four PCs once rode across the country on a single horse because everyone had feather fall cast on them.This is certainly a creative use of an open-ended spell, but the game took on a Piers Anthony Xanth-like silliness. Realistically speaking, why don't whole armies start traveling like this?And Light is another example. Once the player's realize they can use a 1st level spell effect to blind an enemy why cast anything else? It becomes the defacto tactic from there on out. Who needs a paltry 1d4+1 magic missile when another first level spell not only makes an effective weapon it provides light too.Animate Dead can create whole hordes of undead in 1e. Unlimited labor you don't have to feed and that can work all day and all night without rest? You can revolutionize the economy with that. So why isn't it being done already?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 4671625, member: 2804"] Like I said several posts ago this is the crux of the argument. Are open-ended effects good or bad? And it really depends. In 2e, featherfall gave you the mass of a feather. This made it so you didn't take damage from falling, but also opened itself to all sorts of ridiculous abuses. In a 2e game I played in way back in the day, four PCs once rode across the country on a single horse because everyone had feather fall cast on them. This is certainly a creative use of an open-ended spell, but the game took on a Piers Anthony Xanth-like silliness. Realistically speaking, why don't whole armies start traveling like this? And Light is another example. Once the player's realize they can use a 1st level spell effect to blind an enemy why cast anything else? It becomes the defacto tactic from there on out. Who needs a paltry 1d4+1 magic missile when another first level spell not only makes an effective weapon it provides light too. Animate Dead can create whole hordes of undead in 1e. Unlimited labor you don't have to feed and that can work all day and all night without rest? You can revolutionize the economy with that. So why isn't it being done already? [/QUOTE]

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