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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9413784" data-attributes="member: 20564">Q: What is the primary purpose of Legendary saves?A: To keep the creature up and active when action economy is stacked against him/as a solo.Q: Does this change enhance, reduce, or is neutral to the primary purpose?A: Since this now can be used up by low-level spells and minor effects that would not unduly inhibit a creature, this proposed change undermines the primary purpose of Legendary Saves.Conclusion:  House rule is detrimental to Legendary Saves' purpose and should not be implemented.I had a drawing book when I was a kid called "How to Draw Comics The Marvel Way".  It had a whole section on how many heads tall your average superhero was, vs. how many heads tall an average adult and average child was.  Basically, Superheroes are drawn as more adult than adults..Then they had a section on The Thing, who breaks this rule, but makes up for it in other ways such as width.  It say you need not to just understand a rule to break it, but to understand why the rule exists in the first place to break it successfully.In my professional life, I've learned the same lesson as Chesterton's Fence.  Understand why someone put up a fence before tearing it down.  It's an exercise in second order thinking - not what are the consequences of the change, but what are the consequences of the consequences.  And those have not steered me wrong evaluating rules.</blockquote>