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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 399616" data-attributes="member: 548">Several questions:1.  How well did you weave this "planet-goddess" thing in?  Were there hints that this sort of thing would happen?  Did you just surprise your player one day with the fact that half his newly-acquired 7th level spell list just got wiped off the face of your goddess?I'm asking this because most stories are not as holy to the players as it might be to the DM... from their point of view they may just see the whole issue as punishing elf druid for some reason.  Are you?  Probably not, but looking at it as the player of that elf druid...2.  Which spells are you taking out?  All those fire spells and Creeping Doom are obvious, but animal summoning and buff spells can be just as deadly.  Are those going away too?  If not, why?  Did it simply slip the goddess' notice (very possible IMO)?3.  How did your goddess ever cope with things like humans dying of old age, or insects dropping dead at the end of their one day of life?  Is there some difference between "natural" deaths and deaths caused by injury?  Is the goddess hurt by a monkey losing his balance and dying from falling damage?  How about bears that get struck by lightning?If any of this is OK by the goddess, well make all the damage spells do that sort of thing.  A 5th level Cardiac Arrest spell that functions like Slay Living?  A 7th level Gravity Storm that makes all those in the area take 1d6 per level falling damage (the area being strangely similar to Fire Storm's area of effect...)?  A 5th level Lightning Strike spell with an effect uncannily similar to Flame Strike, except it's "natural"?  A 7th level Sands of Time spell that ages (d6+4) x 100 hp worth of creatures to death (creatures who can't dying of old age are immune)?4.  Finally, if it comes down to it, which is more important:  your story or your player?  Make that decision ahead of time, because you may someday have to choose between them, no matter what you do!</blockquote>

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