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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 4979573" data-attributes="member: 51942">Resist 5 isn't enough (at epic) to cause game breakage.  It's a solid advantage, sure.  Combined with the action cost, I'd say it's fine: it's useful, but not broken.  It rewards actually thinking about the enemy, and rewards planning - which can be a useful thing in a DM's toolbox; it's a minor plothook.  But, in general, I don't see the problem with PC's occasionally overwhelming an opponent simply by outsmarting them.  Having situational effects matter makes the game world more real to me, and it's a way to bind the more power-gaming players into the plot.I mean, compare this to 3.5 - there such effects were typically far more extreme, without rendering the game unplayable.  Just because a few battles become trivial or impossible doesn't make the game unplayable, particularly in 4e, where retreat is actually a survivable option.So, if you want to confront the players with a mono-culture of monsters dealing typed damage that they can easily prepare for, then yes, the potions of resistance are powerful.  But I don't consider that a problem.</blockquote>