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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 4155499" data-attributes="member: 7883">Personally, I think that the fluff should have an influence.  Either the fireball melts lead or it doesn't.  This makes the choice of whether to use particular spells resource management of a different sort.You want to recover valuable items an enemy fighter is using?  Maybe it's not a good idea to throw five fireballs at him....because if he is carrying valuable documents or plans, they might get burned to a crisp.  That magical leather armour might be damaged.  His backpack full of coins might combust, and become a fused lump of mishapen coin and leather that can't be easily sold.  I *want* my players to have to take that kind of thing into consideration.Frankly, I'd like the game to be set up in a way where it is similar to many fantasy stories.  In many novels, when the characters fight a wizard, it's not the fighter who goes up against the wizard and butchers him in one round with 4 attacks against a low AC.  The fighter knows that if he goes against the wizard, he's going to be held, or disintegrated or teleported into a trench in the ocean or whatever, before he ever gets close.  Instead, the enemy wizard is an opportunity for the fighter's buddy the mage, to shine, because he has the powers to have a wizardly duel or whatever, and take out the enemy mage, while the fighter deals with the bodyguards, or the demon the enemy wizard summons, or whatever.Banshee</blockquote>

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