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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6542368" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Shadowrun casters are roughly as &quot;handcuffed&quot; as 5E casters. To wit, Shadowrun casters must spend concentration to maintain spells, and each spell you maintain gives you a penalty on everything you do to the point where you often only want to ever maintain one spell at a time. Shadowrun gives you the option of maintaining multiple spells, but then, 5E lets you maintain many spells without concentration (Mirror Image, Blindness, Blink, etc.) so I'll call that a wash. Also, 5E casters aren't penalized at ability checks or attack rolls while maintaining a spell.Another interesting similarity is that 5E's Planar Binding behaves similarly to Shadowrun's spirit binding. In both cases you turn piles of gold into invisible bodyguards. Shadowrun limits the absolute number of bound spirits you can have at a time, whereas 5E limits (via spell slots) the rate at which you can bind them and the duration of their binding, but the similarities are striking: rich wizards spend money on regeants/gems to bind extraplanar entities to do their dirty work./tangent</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6542368, member: 6787650"] Shadowrun casters are roughly as "handcuffed" as 5E casters. To wit, Shadowrun casters must spend concentration to maintain spells, and each spell you maintain gives you a penalty on [I]everything[/I] you do to the point where you often only want to ever maintain one spell at a time. Shadowrun gives you the option of maintaining multiple spells, but then, 5E lets you maintain many spells without concentration (Mirror Image, Blindness, Blink, etc.) so I'll call that a wash. Also, 5E casters aren't penalized at ability checks or attack rolls while maintaining a spell. Another interesting similarity is that 5E's Planar Binding behaves similarly to Shadowrun's spirit binding. In both cases you turn piles of gold into invisible bodyguards. Shadowrun limits the absolute number of bound spirits you can have at a time, whereas 5E limits (via spell slots) the rate at which you can bind them and the duration of their binding, but the similarities are striking: rich wizards spend money on regeants/gems to bind extraplanar entities to do their dirty work. /tangent [/QUOTE]

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