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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9229037" data-attributes="member: 93670">The frustration you ran into that pressured the array change is a couple design choices that 5e made with niche protection and magic items, not a result of the first array. By making magic items a <s>totally unsupported problem</s> "optional" thing rather than an expectation baked into the math to some degree the GM was denied the ability to give just enough extra in just the right place to their players to flesh out any CharOp power spread in a way that reinforced everyone's chosen niche. By watering down well defined PC niches/niche protection you sat with a group of PCs who didn't really see any need to work with the GM in order to diversify themselves into coordinated specialized niche roles that sling shot each other with reciprocity.The solution is to fix those elements not make the fix more difficult by further entrenching the elite array's presentation as the only acceptable minimum starting point.</blockquote>