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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8125490" data-attributes="member: 93670">That's an over simplification but you brought up two good relevant points in a bad way.  Inter-player balance is one of the most important things that the designers ignored when making short rest classes & giving them powerful tools to go with the same stuff long rest classes have as now Alice with a short rest class like warlock is mechanically encouraged to end every fight with "lets take a short rest" so she can nova next fight while bob the long rest class is tired of playing second fiddle so far behind Alice that he's wondering why he even bothers is encouraged to fight her for no other reason than wanting to stop playing third fiddle.  Meanwhile Chuck the GM is forced to transparently place some form of invisible wall throughout the campaign to balance those two mechanical needs above plot story world cohesion & just about everything else.Teleport comes up an awful lot & people still pretend that it's the kind of game changer it was in 3.5 when it  meant you could teleport the group to a safe spot where you could safely take advantage of npc healers for long term care recovery & other things but[spoiler="these two things are not even on the same planet"]3.5[ATTACH=full]128437[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]128439[/ATTACH]5e[ATTACH=full]128438[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]128441[/ATTACH][/spoiler]and yet 5e from the start has very much been designed as if <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards" target="_blank">linear fighter quadratic wizard</a> is still a thing to the point where it needs to be guarded against everywhere they can shoehorn in a safeguard despite the fact that with feats & magic weapons it inverts to linear wizard quadratic fighter due to overuse of concentration, spells that are handicapped to be almost good (usually before concentration is added to be safe), & the massive over use of energy resist/immune along with magic resist that actually impacts the caster stacked against "resistance to nonmagical piecing bludgeoning & slashing" that ceases to affect the martial the second they got their first magic weapon.  Descent into avernus is such a good example of this thought process that it's <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/jc2pvv/bit_of_a_rant_avernus_experience_really_sucks_for/" target="_blank">almost white room level clarity</a> with scads of incredibly magical weapons & armor for the fighter side of lfqw with a wand of secrets, +1 wand of the war mage & some spellbooks paired with too little gold in the entire hardcover to really use even if the caster was a wizard who was given all the gold.  As if that was not enough nearly every monster in it has significant amounts of energy resist & outright energy immunes along side magic resistance that cripples the already overly restricted wizard side of lfqw  who fall behind the curve frequently & only manages to keep pace at their best even before the additional hurdle is added.edit:  With all of that said, what exactly is the value of being able to teleport in hardcover adventures that mave nowhere to teleport to& no reason even if you can. Descent to avernus proides another white room level example there in the form of the wandering emporium that should be a perfect example of a place were being able to teleport to it makes a huge difference yet has no inclusion of a teleport pattern.</blockquote>

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