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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8811102" data-attributes="member: 7006">At the end of the day, I find all these spell questions usually end up at this point:&quot;As a DM, I find players always taking X spell because it is [overpowered, too useful etc.] to be boring. I want it changed so that a wider variety of spells get chosen.&quot;Then I remember the important thing...- Player happiness supercedes my complaints of &quot;boredom&quot;.Yes, I see these spells more often, because I DM for more players than players play for DMs. So even though I may have seen Shield now at the last 5 tables I've run... this will be the FIRST time that player has played with Shield in years. So who am I to bitch that this player took Shield because it's a good spell?At some point we DMs need to remember we are not here just for ourselves... we are here to let our players play what they want. So if they want to cast Shield, or Fireball, or take Great Weapon Mastery... who am I to shut that down just because I had players in the last campaign do the same thing? That's not my concern.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8811102, member: 7006"] At the end of the day, I find all these spell questions usually end up at this point: "As a DM, I find players always taking X spell because it is [overpowered, too useful etc.] to be boring. I want it changed so that a wider variety of spells get chosen." Then I remember the important thing... - Player happiness supercedes my complaints of "boredom". Yes, I see these spells more often, because I DM for more players than players play for DMs. So even though I may have seen Shield now at the last 5 tables I've run... this will be the FIRST time that player has played with Shield in years. So who am I to bitch that this player took Shield because it's a good spell? At some point we DMs need to remember we are not here just for ourselves... we are here to let our players play what they want. So if they want to cast Shield, or Fireball, or take Great Weapon Mastery... who am I to shut that down just because I had players in the last campaign do the same thing? That's not my concern. [/QUOTE]

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