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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 6243226" data-attributes="member: 63245">To be fair nothing says an altered one can be used either. It seems to me it would be up in the air as a GM call. Also, how rare are octopi in the game? I'd wager it is pretty rare unless you have some sort of under the sea campaign going on... AND let's say that people do catch octopi on a regular occasion. I'm pretty damn sure people willing to sell their tentacles are going to ask for a hell of a lot of money for it, which -again- you the GM get to decide. AND even if the wizard could buy the tentacle many times, what is the party supposed to do when the wizard runs out? Go back to the sea faring town to get one? Yeah, that is gonna make the other PCs happy, completely disrupting the quest.  Also though, the GM can and SHOULD ban certain spells, or at least make them extremely hard to come by, perhaps even going on a quest to learn the spell. I still don't understand the reason everyone seems to think it's okay to ban races, classes, restrict items, but no one seems to ban anything that actually makes the game broken. Of course you can cherry pick spells to ban, but as for the materials, simply do not allow that feat to be taken (essentially banning a feat) instead of banning many spells. It always seems to me that people talk about optimization and all of that because they allow every damn rulebook under the sun. No gamemaster in his right mind should allow every single thing printed in the rule books. D&D gives you the ability to shape and construct your world, in other words the GM gets to make choices that reflect his world and how it works. And to pre-empt the "When a game is released it should be balanced so I shouldn't have to modify the game myself" argument. This is absolutely untrue, roleplaying games are all about decisions from the player AND GM. Many people who have the argument seem to imply that you have to make up enhance or create something for the game to be balance, when it's exactly the opposite. You are trimming things down on the game, not creating anything new. tldr; The point is that there are many ways around or to put in check powerful spells but for whatever reason,very few people about those things in a "spell breaking the game" thread.</blockquote>

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