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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phloog" data-source="post: 3998245" data-attributes="member: 59219">Thanks for the welcome.You're almost certainly right in terms of mechanics and balance.   My biggest problem is I am, at heart, still a diehard fan of D&D in terms of the 'feel' of the game.  Moving to EOM is still right for me, but I want to keep as many as possible of the traditional D&D spells - which is why Magic Missile was an initial concern.  It seems you personally don't double the level, but use (Level+1) doubled - - I may do that as well, but was leaning toward (Level doubled) +1.  Is the more common conversion used by people (Level +1) * 2 or (Level *2) + 1 ?I too am rejecting any spell automatically scaling 'with level', as you say, but I'm wondering: do you disagree with my thought of allowing multiple missiles (2 at 3rd, 3 at 5th, 4 at 7th, and a max of 5 at 9th), even though I am charging them 1 MP per missile for it?  It's not so much scaling with level (which per originally essentially comes free) as it is allowing only one modification (extra missiles)I saw the limit on number of missiles as adequately offsetting the instant damage.  At 5th level I can cast (going from memory here) an Evoke Fire 4 / Gen 1 - - short targeted fire attack for 5d6 fire damage, costing 5MP, or I can cast (assume only doubling level and adding one for base cost) an old-book Magic Missile for 3 MP, and add 2 MP for the other two missiles, doing 3d4+3 distributed among one or more targets.  The first averages 17.5 damage (max 30), but requires either an attack or allows a save.  The second allows no save, but only does an average of 10.5 damage (Max 15).In addition, to actually cast it you must 'use up a slot' for a signature spell.I'm probably missing some glaring error that makes it overpowered, but with the sig requirement and the cost it doesn't feel outlandish.  And the thought of playing a game I'll call D&D where you can't cast a magic missile just seems wrong <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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