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<blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 3149627" data-attributes="member: 1164">The short buffs are supposed to encourage people to get thier stat boosting through magic items, rather than spell buffs.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The shorter durations mean you cast them if you need them, not cast them every fight. The 3.0 durations had to go because players buffed so much, a targeted dispel magic took off nearly all their bonuses. A lot of monster in the epic book needed greater dispel at will, just to keep up with this.The 3.0 1d4+1 had to go to get rid of people extending, maximizing and empowering the spells instead of buying magic items for their ability score enhancements.I'd say, if you let the animal buffs last hours, require a minute casting time in which the caster applies war paint to the recipients’ body over the Chakras/item slots/dragon lines and have the spells tie up those appropriate magic item slot [2 slots if the caster gets to pick them]. But even then, letting the animal buffs last hours really powers up druids further so you might want to say wildshaping disrupts the paint, thus the spell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="frankthedm, post: 3149627, member: 1164"] The short buffs are supposed to encourage people to get thier stat boosting through magic items, rather than spell buffs. :p The shorter durations mean you cast them [I]if you need them[/I], not cast them every fight. The 3.0 durations had to go because players buffed so much, a targeted dispel magic took off nearly all their bonuses. A lot of monster in the epic book needed greater dispel at will, just to keep up with this. The 3.0 1d4+1 had to go to get rid of people extending, maximizing and empowering the spells instead of buying magic items for their ability score enhancements. I'd say, if you let the animal buffs last hours, require a minute casting time in which the caster applies war paint to the recipients’ body over the Chakras/item slots/dragon lines and have the spells tie up those appropriate magic item slot [2 slots if the caster gets to pick them]. But even then, letting the animal buffs last hours really powers up druids further so you might want to say wildshaping disrupts the paint, thus the spell. [/QUOTE]

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