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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 1897825" data-attributes="member: 7884">Exactly, hence my initial suggestion about particular design rules and consistent application of them.  You don't need to have two types of energy, one "conjured" and one "evoked".  Putting to one side the discussion about whether some energy types are "energy" or a substance, SR should apply to all applications of the five accepted energy types causing direct damage.  Whether the spell is Conjuration or Evocation is irrelevant.  The SRD description of spell resistance supports this, but then somehow since the SRD was drafted the spell designers in WotC have taken the attitude that Conjuration = no SR, full stop.  I don't have a problem with a summoned creature not being affected by SR, or a huge ball of stone conjured from the Elemental Plane of Earth being dropped on a spell-resistant creature not being affected by SR, but when we're comparing apples with apples - fire energy and fire energy, cold energy and cold energy etc. - the same rule should apply no matter what the school of spell.I hear what others are saying about maybe WotC reviewing the effects of SR and seeking to redcuce it, as they did with DR.  That's fine.  Since I run a wizard who's p'd off when her big spell fails due to spell resistance, I would like nothing more than to see SR toned down.  But how about being up front about the problems with SR as a game mechanic, and fixing them rather than doing something through the back door by creating all these new spells which aren't affected by SR and which, because of that, "have" to be in the Conjuration school.  How about simply adjusting everything's SR up by say 2 to 5 points and then adjusting the roll to defeat SR by spell level?  Etc.In short, get some sensible spell design rules, stick to them when designing new spells, and fix SR through another medium than artificially creating a heap of Conjuration spells.Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>

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