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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 4171899" data-attributes="member: 5948">I am not, in any way, intending to suggest that the first-failed-save-loses way that high-level/epic combat played out in 3.x was a good or desirable thing.  It wasn't.But this post is spot on.There is nothing EPIC about the phane.  It is not frightening.  It is not profound in any way.  It is a 26th-level creature cannot affect the wider world in any truly significant way.  The only way this 26th-level creature can threaten the kingdom or provoke an apocalypse is by hitting people, one at a time.  It is an orc with bigger numbers in its stat block.  Oh, and it makes you look old, for a little while.  Ooh, scary.Go on, this creature was meant to be created as a living weapon in the primeval war between deific entities.  It basically defines epic.  It's the sort of thing campaigns are built around.  But just try to extract from its stat block anything resembling a plot hook.  I dare you.It's just so damn shallow.</blockquote>