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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 6369069" data-attributes="member: 58401">Spells are supposed to be powerful, aren't they?Fireball has always been a big hitter; dropping one of these should be a serious threat to a 5th-level party. Similarly, it should also represent a significant expenditure of resources to a 5th-level wizard, and it does. At 5th level, a wizard can only cast this twice per day.Sleep gets weaker as the party levels up, just as it did in previous editions. At 1st level, it's pretty amazing, but even by 5th level you'll be lucky to have it affect more than one same-level enemy; casting it with a higher level spell-slot will provide sharply diminishing returns.Unfortunately I don't have my PH with me, so I don't know offhand what armor of Agathys does, but doesn't it depend on the warlock being damaged in melee? I have no doubt the spell is powerful, but if I'm remembering correctly, that's a huge limitation.At any rate, casters are likely to be more powerful in 5E than non-casters; that's part of D&D's history, and part of why pretty much every class has magical options. Fortunately still, 5E was designed with clever limitations: bounded accuracy on stats, severely reduced numbers of high-level spell slots per day, and a hard limit on buffs thanks to concentration rules. Overall, I don't think you should worry.But the rogue can do that all day (and attack with advantage, too) potentially without being noticed, while the sorcerer is eventually bound to run out of spell slots and spell points all while attracting the attention of everyone who sees him.If you're finding that your sorcerer is nova-ing too much, try putting more pressure on the party so that the casters aren't always able to stay fully rested.Casting fireball with higher-level spell slots (like in the example above) is worse damage-wise than just using that slot to cast a higher-level damage spell, but using a 6th-level slot to cast magic missile or inflict wounds is honestly a huge waste. Yep, if you're willing to burn your only 6th-level spell slot to cast a super-duper magic missile, it ought to be better than a cantrip, but the numbers you provided show that it's only barely better even including the fact that it auto-hits. Cantrips are meant to stand-in for weapon attacks for spellcasters, so they ought to be roughly on-par with (or perhaps only slightly worse than) what non-casters can do with basic weapon attacks.Overall, I definitely believe you should put more encounters on the party during each day. For example, if the party is crawling through the Redbrand hideout (Lost Mine of Phandelver), they shouldn't be able to take more than one short rest in that whole dungeon before the BBEG escapes and all the enemies start scouring the place for the party that's infiltrated them; if the party does any fighting down there and then leaves for a long rest, when they return the base should be either abandoned (and most of the treasure already taken) or completely fortified against another incursion. This should be true for almost any dungeon on intelligent creatures.</blockquote>

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