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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LifebaneSoulshadow" data-source="post: 1103108" data-attributes="member: 7475">What's kinda funny is...As a player I typically play a spellcaster.  To be honest they are the more challenging and interesting of the classes to play, in my opinion.  However with years and years of DM'ing behind me, I can look at some spells and understand the forthcoming down the road balance issues.  That said, and it is an opinion, I find a LOT of the material in RR1 and RR2 to be out of balance.  Like I said, I own the books.  I use them.  They are in fact fantastic source material, that I often draw from.  I just find that most things I must look at very critically before I allow them in a campaign.  Some are fine, many aren't.And I dont think toning down some of those that are obviously out of balance is nerfing spellcasters.  I play one <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It all depends on the campaign you're running.  If you want a HIGH magic, where spellcasters rule all others, the spells rock for that.  If you want a semblance of balance between spellcasters to the other classes, then you have to adjust a lot of the stuff.  (it isnt just the spells I have issue with mind you, some of the other items and magic items are just as badly out of whack)Like I said, I dont see how the editor and writer could have published a text with such gross imbalance (again this is subjective), if that weren't the intent.  So likely RR1 and RR2 and Scarred Lands was intended as a high magic campaign world.  (I've played some Scarred Lands as well so I'm not wholly ignorant of which I speak.)To Nightfall, Scarred Lands is fine.  He runs a different kind of game than I do.  To each their own.  My current campaign has 4 spellcasters out of 6 players in it.  They love it, so I must be doing something right.Lifebane Soulshadow *</blockquote>

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