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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haffrung Helleyes" data-source="post: 4083904" data-attributes="member: 1068">What I don't understand about the Fly spell changes and the Eladrin Teleport ability is that they seem to be moving the game in opposite directions.I totally support making Fly a higher level power.  I have run 3E with fly house-ruled to a caster-only 4th level spell for years, and my PCs still take it as soon as  they can.  It's boring for me as a GM when I try to use terrain to make an interesting tactical challenge, but fly can totally negate it.Scratch that, there's no _reason_ for a 3E GM to try to use terrain to make an interesting challenge, because he's just selectively screwing a subset of the PCs (the ones who can't fly).On the other hand, I absolutely hate the low level teleport effects.  Teleportation has always been portrayed as big, flashy, hard magic, in D&D, and in every other RPG I have played.  I will not run a game where the PCs teleport around the map at level 1, 3, or 5,  and if I can't house rule 4E to make this work in a clean fashion, well, I won't play 4E. Besides being counter to the existing genre conventions, low-level Teleport is bad because it  works against the goal of having terrain be important on the battlefield.Ken</blockquote>