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<blockquote data-quote="TheAlkaizer" data-source="post: 8448021" data-attributes="member: 7024893">The biggest part of the spells are either entirely combat focused, or can be used outside of combat with little incentive for roleplay. There's absolutely some (notably a lot of the cantrips) that are flavorful and absolutely lend themselves to being used to solve problems outside of combat. Also, we're talking of spells, but these are something that only a portion of the classes in the game can use. Statiscially speaking, in most groups, one or more players will not be able to use these tools.I don't know where you took that I'm a combat oriented DM. You just quoted me saying that I frequently have sessions with no combat at all.There is some material for sure. Is it good material? We can disagree on that.There's fluff, yes. But the majority of the monsters in the book are meant to be slain. They're evil, they're unintelligent, they're beasts. Of course, there's the good aligned monsters that can be allies instead of enemies and the usual humanoids that you could parley with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAlkaizer, post: 8448021, member: 7024893"] The biggest part of the spells are either entirely combat focused, or can be used outside of combat with little incentive for roleplay. There's absolutely some (notably a lot of the cantrips) that are flavorful and absolutely lend themselves to being used to solve problems outside of combat. Also, we're talking of spells, but these are something that only a portion of the classes in the game can use. Statiscially speaking, in most groups, one or more players will not be able to use these tools. I don't know where you took that I'm a combat oriented DM. You just quoted me saying that I frequently have sessions with no combat at all. There is [I]some[/I] material for sure. Is it good material? We can disagree on that. There's fluff, yes. But the majority of the monsters in the book are meant to be slain. They're evil, they're unintelligent, they're beasts. Of course, there's the good aligned monsters that can be allies instead of enemies and the usual humanoids that you could parley with. [/QUOTE]

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