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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8252654" data-attributes="member: 93670">["Primary targets"?  "Has to travel along grid line thibg"?What are you talking about?   The wights are lined up in a row so anything that hits the lot of them needs to put the caster in line with them, I even made a pretty combat gridded vtt illustration.  Tge big guys with swords facing the same baddies as the caster or the dashing guy in a Cape who os obviously not a lich or ghast but I didn't think needed to be called out explicitly as allies.  The yellow path would trivially put the caster in a square  to zap a ghast and the lich vtt one of those two is lightning resistant and has legendary resistance to get a save fail and simply declare it saves.  I guess the wizard could easily add a third target by blasting bob the fighter too but that's not really helpful QUOTE="TheSword, post: 8252555, member: 6879661"]I’m not sure how anyone can argue that wizards are quadratic any more.The single biggest impact - spells scaling in damage by level - eg magic missile, fireball, cone of cold etc - at the same time as wizards get more spell slots was the single main reason they were quadratic.5e has also dramatically reduced the 6+ spell level slots. So wizards where hit from both sides.Concentration, like it or hate it, was the other big game changer.You’re right that spell components where never a big thing for most tables. Though I discovered that the material cost for identify was back for 5e and which was a shock. So yes 5E spell component pouches and focuses have not turned wizards quadratic again.</blockquote>Frustratingly enough wotc still seems to be designing as if it was both a thing and rampantly unchecked.   The lack of free scaling and  impact of concentration is why every single concentration spell in 5eneeds to be unquestionably top shelf rather than  getting written like its trying not to be too strong when scaled like 3.5 would.  When you toss on the damage disparity it lays bare how obviously far from the mark that so many spells are and suddenly includes stuff like concentration web[/QUOTE]

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