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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InkTide" data-source="post: 9558001" data-attributes="member: 7048463">That feels a little post-hoc to me - like if we take that as a broader meta statement, he's just trying to rationalize the massive meta changes that already happened for meta reasons with in-story beats, not trying to make a statement about where the meta wants to go. By 2016, those massive duration nerfs compared to 3.5e had probably already been established (I am not very familiar with 4e, but I believe it had gotten the 'nothing magical can be permanent anymore' ball rolling so hard they even had to pull it back a little in places with 5e).However, there it's clearly just providing a justification for maintaining narrative tension (can't cheat information out of the foes with magic). Not sure why Silverhand needed to be writhing on the floor for it though.Yeah, I've never gotten why they didn't just do it this way. Humanoid is a body plan - as a new player I'd at first thought that was what the "Hold Person" restriction was actually about, as in it was made to restrain a biped (featherlessness notwithstanding) with two arms. But no. Weird arbitrary magical type restriction instead.</blockquote>