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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8487683" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I like the idea of not entirely eliminating damage from spells, but reducing it in favor of other effects.  One observation that's often been made about the original D&D spell lists was, for example, that damaging spells were fewer and farther between.  Until Magic Missile came out in Sup I: Greyhawk, for example, IIRC Magic-Users had no damage spells before 3rd level.  Similarly, Clerics had extremely few damaging spells until 3rd ed.That Melf's Acid Arrow writeup and the Fireball variant both look excellent- though I would define the Burning condition as doing ongoing damage of its own- not making it dependent on weapon hits.</blockquote>