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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kreynolds" data-source="post: 825399" data-attributes="member: 2829">Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: limiting buff durationsYou know, after all these spells are cast, your spellcasters themeselves will have an effective CR equal to half, if even that, of the normal value, so they won't actually be able to contribute to the encounter since the majority of their useful spells will be used up.Now, I pose this question for you: How can these very few spellcasters possibly get around enough to ensure that every encounter will have buffed up soldiers, and even then, with GMW being a 3rd level spell (4th for a cleric), there's no way that you would have enough spellcasters to go around to buff up even a small fraction of soldiers in this manner.So, in my eyes, it isn't a question of "How is it that spellcasters don't continuously buff up their soldiers" but rather a matter of "Its a good thing for us (the players) that there aren't enough spellcasters to go around, isn't it?". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I say this because, quite frankly, you simply don't have enough spellcasters. So, there's no way that more than 3% (rough estimate) of your encounters will ever include more than one buffed up soldier, if even that at all.</blockquote>