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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8589104" data-attributes="member: 6915329">I'd go with wands/staves/rods as well. Limited charges or uses per day, you can still only use one at a time, and you may have to attune to them. Perhaps your living tissue (or living soul) is damaged when you try to channel elemental damage through it, but the nonliving matter of a wand can safely handle it. And even then, you can have certain limitations. Perhaps certain materials can only handle channeling certain types of damage, or break more easily if they are used to make a magic item of the &quot;wrong&quot; material type. Like, a wand of fireball may break on a 1-in-20 if made of metal, but 2 or 3-in-20 if made of wood.If you're going to remove damage from these sorts of spells, you need to have better effects. Like, spirit guardians actively grapples or even restrains a number of enemies as well as producing difficult terrain, and the number of enemies increases as you upcast it. Moonbeam might slow creatures in it or put them to magical sleep, or poison shapechangers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8589104, member: 6915329"] I'd go with wands/staves/rods as well. Limited charges or uses per day, you can still only use one at a time, and you may have to attune to them. Perhaps your living tissue (or living soul) is damaged when you try to channel elemental damage through it, but the nonliving matter of a wand can safely handle it. And even then, you can have certain limitations. Perhaps certain materials can only handle channeling certain types of damage, or break more easily if they are used to make a magic item of the "wrong" material type. Like, a [I]wand of fireball [/I]may break on a 1-in-20 if made of metal, but 2 or 3-in-20 if made of wood. If you're going to remove damage from these sorts of spells, you need to have better effects. Like, [I]spirit guardians [/I]actively grapples or even restrains a number of enemies as well as producing difficult terrain, and the number of enemies increases as you upcast it. [I]Moonbeam [/I]might slow creatures in it or put them to magical sleep, or poison shapechangers. [/QUOTE]

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