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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8596562" data-attributes="member: 53980">3c Provide a variety of challenges, such that the ability is sometimes amazing and sometimes, not so much. Which is work, admittedly, but it's what the DM ought to be doing anyway to keep their encounters fresh and interesting.If the ability is sometimes OP, then that's fine. It's only when it's always OP that there's a problem. However, that's often more an issue with repetitive encounter design than with the ability itself. If you mostly use tightly grouped mobs, fireball is king. If you exclusively use undead, then turn undead is brokenly good. Fireball and Turn Undead aren't actually broken though, and work fine in plenty of campaigns without alteration.Also, I think you've overlooked that heavy handed use of nerfing can wreck a campaign just as easily, if not moreso, as doing nothing. And in those cases, it really is the DMs fault (as the one presumably wielding the nerf bat).That said, I think that if everyone at the table is having less fun, that is a valid reason to make adjustments. In that case you should have buy in from the group, and it should be able to be resolved with a quick discussion: "Hey Tom, I think we all agree that Turn Undead is ruining this zombie campaign. If you're down, I'll let you swap it out for a different Channel Divinity of your choice. Cool?"</blockquote>