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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7984072" data-attributes="member: 6799649">Every living creature in the world 'games the system! In real life and in our fantasy worlds, creatures are in an environment where there are laws of nature/physics/magic.Things work like they work. Creatures act within their environment, and in the interactions some behaviours are more likely to be disadvantageous and other behaviours are more likely to be advantageous. Creatures evolve both their behaviours and their phenotypes to take advantage of the laws of nature.If hex works as written, then those who can cast it and who regain slots on a short rest will quickly evolve the behaviour of casting long duration spells, like hex or aid, in the morning and then waiting until those slots are refreshed before doing anything dangerous, and include such advice when they teach others. Just like they would teach them the best use of all their class abilities and spells.So I'm a single class spellcaster with lots of high level slots which I regain on a long rest. Just before I go to sleep a cast lots of spells using all my slots, believing (perhaps wrongly) that since I'll have them all back when I wake up this is a net gain. Is this 'gaming the system' or just good sense?Does the universe itself have an opinion on my behaviour? Will the universe cause increasingly vicious grudge monsters to randomly appear because someone knows how the world works and is making wise decisions to use those rules to benefit themselves? Do campfires fail to warm you because you lit the fire to take advantage of how burning things produce heat?If you are a DM who has the laws of the universe change to punish creatures who take advantage of how things work then you are a terrible DM who either has no idea how reality works or does know but prioritises their own butt-hurt ego over being a fair and consistent referee.</blockquote>

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