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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9790232" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Key problem being, as folks around here are so keen to point out, high-level games are pretty rare.If you've just raised the level of a spell from 4th to (say) 6th, you've just made that a spell only reached in the last few weeks of most campaigns (going from char level 7 to char level 11). Even those few groups that go further, it's going to be only a relatively small portion of the game at all, which is again not much different from just taking the toy away entirely.Further, if you're going from being able to cast a spell two to three times a day, to only being able to cast it once, spells with a 50% failure rate are absolutely out. Taking a fifty-fifty shot at one of your most powerful actions being completely straight-up wasted? Not on your life. You'll take a spell that doesn't fail, or one that repeatedly inflicts saves (e.g. sickening radiance), or a buff spell that makes yourself or an ally more effective. Making banishment something that only comes up at level 11+ and which has only a 50/50 shot of even working in the first place? Yeah folks are just gonna skip it and instead cast something actually good that's natively 6th level, like disintegrate, sunbeam, or some kind of buff.Instead of making things interesting by creating choices, you've just altered the numbers such that the calculation says "sure it's amazing if it works, but it works rarely enough that you shouldn't bother". This is one of the key problems of creating a knowingly unbalanced game. Choices get replaced with calculations when informed players play, and when uninformed players play, they get caught by bad choices they didn't know were bad until after they made them.</blockquote>

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