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<blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 4791314" data-attributes="member: 892">Going on my &quot;devolution&quot; theme (the half-elf getting progressively nerfed):In 1st ed, magic resistance existed, but the &quot;damage doing magic-user&quot; could, at high levels, one shot a monster through pure damage.&nbsp; Thus magic resistance was often the only thing saving that monster, sometimes.In 3rd ed, we still have spell resistance, but also added in damage caps for spells by level, evasion/mettle abilities/feats for no damage, and, most notably, greatly increased monster hit points.&nbsp; Spells were not similarly increased in damage to keep up (i.e., monsters gained extra hp for high constitution per hit dice, but wizards did not get an int modifier bonus to each dice of their fireballs).Thus the &quot;pocket nuke&quot; mage got devalued.Combine the two devolutions and you have the half-elf evoker!&nbsp; Good luck with that in 3rd ed.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Particle_Man, post: 4791314, member: 892"] Going on my "devolution" theme (the half-elf getting progressively nerfed): In 1st ed, magic resistance existed, but the "damage doing magic-user" could, at high levels, one shot a monster through pure damage. Thus magic resistance was often the only thing saving that monster, sometimes. In 3rd ed, we still have spell resistance, but also added in damage caps for spells by level, evasion/mettle abilities/feats for no damage, and, most notably, greatly increased monster hit points. Spells were not similarly increased in damage to keep up (i.e., monsters gained extra hp for high constitution per hit dice, but wizards did not get an int modifier bonus to each dice of their fireballs). Thus the "pocket nuke" mage got devalued. Combine the two devolutions and you have the half-elf evoker! Good luck with that in 3rd ed. :) [/QUOTE]

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