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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irlo" data-source="post: 9263593" data-attributes="member: 7028372">What Bothers Me  - Part One: CantripsI'd like to see most of the damaging cantrips be toned down -- either eliminating the scaling damage or reducing the size of the damage dice (or both). I'm onboard with giving casters magical at-will attacks, but I don't like that they overshadow weapons (and eventually overshadow 1st level spells). I'd like more cantrips to provide effects other than damage to make combat more interesting, less of a hit point slog.I've never experienced the guidance problems described here, but that's only by chance. As a player, I avoid the cantrip. As a DM, my players haven't used it. If it were in play, I would find it annoying. I dislike booming blade. It most circumstances I wouldn't mind, but when I did see this in play it was in the hands of a rogue who used it for nearly every single melee attack. Constant fiddling with tokens to mark the affected target, deciding on the fly how that target would react to it, and interrupting the target's turn to roll for damage (if it moved) quickly became tiresome. What Bothers Me - Part Two: CastersThe Eldritch Knight is a huge disappointment. I want to want to play one, but I look at the severely limited magic use, and I can never work up any enthusiasm.What Bothers Me - Part Three: Other SpellsAs a DM, I find a player's use of  bane to be annoying. Multiple targets, multiple saving throws, extra d4s. That said, as a player, I really do enjoy using the spell and it's been fairly effective, but I only do so in online play-by-post games. I would never use it in person, esp. with an inexperienced or harried DM.Phantasmal force needs more guidance about appropriate uses and limits. As a player, I like the spell. It's flexible and allows for creative illusion, but I'm very careful not to push the envelope, using it for what seems to me reasonable purposes with reasonably limited effects. As a DM, I saw this in play with only a few characters. One player immediately tested to see how far he could push the spell. At the time, I was relatively new to 5e and was unfamiliar with the spell until it was cast, and I made a bad call on the spur of the moment (or maybe just an overly-generous one) that effectively removed the target from the fight for the duration. After that, the player never used it again, apparently as dissatisfied with the result as I was.There are more. I might come back to this.</blockquote>

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