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<blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 6511449" data-attributes="member: 43019">As long as both PCs and casters are limited to not tons of buffs, how would this be NPCs working differently? Concentration is actually a really good thing for limiting one of the biggest problems with NPC casters in 3rd edition.Namely that they were _far_ more effective than non-casters. Not only because they had spells at all, which 3e overfavors a bit, but also because they could blow their entire pyramid on one fight.So, 5e casters will have their whole pyramid available to them which is still a serious balance issue - having just done an entire mod of fights each with several scary guys and one caster where every fight was &quot;who cares if it has a deadly poison super smash trample flying breath whatever. kill the caster first cause he can fireball _every round_&quot;.Which I guess suggests another thing you could do, which is have Concentration spells limit the casting of other Concentration spells to some extent. Perhaps you can cast a total spell level equal to your highest spell level. So you can cast 5th level spells? Great, one 5th, or a 3rd and a 2nd, or a 4th and a 1st, or 5 1st. Of course, a certain amount of madness lies that way too, but it's worth investigating.You could also charge extra spell slots for Concentration spells while you're concentrating already.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="keterys, post: 6511449, member: 43019"] As long as both PCs and casters are limited to not tons of buffs, how would this be NPCs working differently? Concentration is actually a really good thing for limiting one of the biggest problems with NPC casters in 3rd edition. Namely that they were _far_ more effective than non-casters. Not only because they had spells at all, which 3e overfavors a bit, but also because they could blow their entire pyramid on one fight. So, 5e casters will have their whole pyramid available to them which is still a serious balance issue - having just done an entire mod of fights each with several scary guys and one caster where every fight was "who cares if it has a deadly poison super smash trample flying breath whatever. kill the caster first cause he can fireball _every round_". Which I guess suggests another thing you could do, which is have Concentration spells limit the casting of other Concentration spells to some extent. Perhaps you can cast a total spell level equal to your highest spell level. So you can cast 5th level spells? Great, one 5th, or a 3rd and a 2nd, or a 4th and a 1st, or 5 1st. Of course, a certain amount of madness lies that way too, but it's worth investigating. You could also charge extra spell slots for Concentration spells while you're concentrating already. [/QUOTE]

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