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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 296501" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>Hm. Perhaps my campaign is different than yours.</p><p></p><p>Given the number of creatures with Blindsight based on hearing, deafness is a nasty thing to inflict.</p><p></p><p>Doing full damage to objects is powerful.</p><p></p><p>And those demons and devils ain't got squat against Sonic energy. Whereas that fireball will either be completely ignored or soaked for 20 even without SR or a save, a Sonic-substituted fireball will bypass all elemental resistances. No demon, devil, or dragon in the core books has Sonic immunity. The only guys I found with Sonic immunity were the slaads (brief search only). They have Sonic resistance 5.</p><p></p><p>If I were playing in a world with Elemental Substitution working that well, I would without doubt or hesitation cast everything as sonic. I'd even do it on trolls -- because the first thing a troll does when it gets powerful is buy a ring of fire resistance.</p><p></p><p>Right now, in the core rules, Sonic damage is clearly an afterthought -- it doesn't do a ton of damage in its spells, and very few monsters have any resistance against it. If you use Elemental Substitution to make Sonic damage as easy and as powerful as, say, Fire damage, you'll unbalance the game.</p><p></p><p>-Tacky</p><p></p><p>PS: Good point on it being the only elemental form with an area-effect spell that completely nullifies it, though. In Elemental Substitution-land, my fighters will be strong, silent types with Rings of Silence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 296501, member: 5171"] Hm. Perhaps my campaign is different than yours. Given the number of creatures with Blindsight based on hearing, deafness is a nasty thing to inflict. Doing full damage to objects is powerful. And those demons and devils ain't got squat against Sonic energy. Whereas that fireball will either be completely ignored or soaked for 20 even without SR or a save, a Sonic-substituted fireball will bypass all elemental resistances. No demon, devil, or dragon in the core books has Sonic immunity. The only guys I found with Sonic immunity were the slaads (brief search only). They have Sonic resistance 5. If I were playing in a world with Elemental Substitution working that well, I would without doubt or hesitation cast everything as sonic. I'd even do it on trolls -- because the first thing a troll does when it gets powerful is buy a ring of fire resistance. Right now, in the core rules, Sonic damage is clearly an afterthought -- it doesn't do a ton of damage in its spells, and very few monsters have any resistance against it. If you use Elemental Substitution to make Sonic damage as easy and as powerful as, say, Fire damage, you'll unbalance the game. -Tacky PS: Good point on it being the only elemental form with an area-effect spell that completely nullifies it, though. In Elemental Substitution-land, my fighters will be strong, silent types with Rings of Silence. [/QUOTE]
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