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Shillelagh - Why no scaling?
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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7499747" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I think that if there is any design failure, it is the failure of designing something <em>for one class</em> that ends up being of little use for such class but of great use for other characters. It's like a red herring, which might be acceptable in a game designed around the concept of "system mastery" (e.g. purposefully include some bad choices that can be redeemed by an appropriate "build"), but I thought with 5e we had managed to leave that idea behind.</p><p></p><p>BTW, I am not counting <em>Shillelagh</em> as a failure tho... it's not bad at all <em>at low levels</em>, to the contrary it's a damn good damage boost compared to the scimitar if you want your Druid to fight in melee. It just has this limitation of diminishing returns as you grow in level, but that happens to other spells as well. It would be nice if it scaled in order to keep supporting the character concept of a melee weapon Druid at all levels, without necessarily require magic items.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7499747, member: 1465"] I think that if there is any design failure, it is the failure of designing something [I]for one class[/I] that ends up being of little use for such class but of great use for other characters. It's like a red herring, which might be acceptable in a game designed around the concept of "system mastery" (e.g. purposefully include some bad choices that can be redeemed by an appropriate "build"), but I thought with 5e we had managed to leave that idea behind. BTW, I am not counting [I]Shillelagh[/I] as a failure tho... it's not bad at all [I]at low levels[/I], to the contrary it's a damn good damage boost compared to the scimitar if you want your Druid to fight in melee. It just has this limitation of diminishing returns as you grow in level, but that happens to other spells as well. It would be nice if it scaled in order to keep supporting the character concept of a melee weapon Druid at all levels, without necessarily require magic items. [/QUOTE]
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