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Message: <blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8463514" data-attributes="member: 6937590">Yeah, there's a rock paper scissors element to this house rule. If you have the right spell or feature for the right enemy, then the effect goes through easily--but if not, too bad. It has a kinda witcher-y element to it, where identifying enemy weaknesses is important. That probably necessitates thinking about the way encounters happen, so that PCs have the opportunity to figure out what they should be doing. It also creates meta-game knowledge issues, advantaging players who know the MM.For those PCs that don't have a lot of flexibility in what they target--it might be fine. If the balance of easy to hit targets and hard to hit targets is reasonable, it might just mean that gameplay is very feast or famine. I don't have a sense of how much fun it would actually be to play with this kind of setup--it might make being a monk just... miserable. Features that target constitution and strength suffer a lot more than others--since monsters usually have good scores--maybe the simple solution would be to have monks' stunning strike and other similarly restricted classes' features target something else.ha! I'd be interested in a system like that too but, man, the amount of work that'd have to go into changing all the affected spells would be immense.Yeah, good observation. I'm not sure I'm bothered by inspiration being exclusively proactive/offensive. I always liked the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-case-for-inspiration.629330/" target="_blank">players claim inspiration</a> house rule better than standard 5e rule, and I don't think changing saves would affect it much.That'd be totally functional, but both fixes feel a bit counterintuitive--apply a penalty to the caster's roll, but only apply the penalty when targets are within a radius unrelated to the position of the caster. Not that I have a better idea, but I feel like it's accounting for these kind of features that would most undermine the parsimony of the no saving throws change.</blockquote>

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