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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8640193" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>See, but, again, I tend to look at this from a very practical point of view.</p><p></p><p>How often are monsters damaging PC's with spells? I mean, seriously. How often are monsters doing this? If it's not all that often anyway - after all most monsters don't have spells currently And, by the time you get into monsters that do have damaging spells, the party probably has Counterspell anyway, meaning that the enemy caster just gets shut down, and the DM reacts to this by not using enemy caster monsters.</p><p></p><p>It's all kind of on a loop. The more resistances the party has to enemy casters, the less likely the DM is going to use enemy casters because they aren't very interesting encounters. Having the baddy deal half damage and/or completely lose actions round after round isn't going to rock anyone's boat.</p><p></p><p>I guess my basic question is, how big of a deal is this actually? How many creatures, and how commonly used are they? Sure, we're nerfing the resistances to a Lich. Great. But, how many liches do you tend to see in a campaign? One? Two at the outside? So, it's not like these resistances mattered all that much anyway in the larger scheme of things. </p><p></p><p>Then again, I have a slightly different point of view since I am a big fan of using non-WotC monsters. Which means that having non-spell magical attacks was pretty common for me all the way along. This isn't something new for me. So, maybe that's why I'm not seeing it as a big change. It's just WotC falling in line with what everyone else is already doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8640193, member: 22779"] See, but, again, I tend to look at this from a very practical point of view. How often are monsters damaging PC's with spells? I mean, seriously. How often are monsters doing this? If it's not all that often anyway - after all most monsters don't have spells currently And, by the time you get into monsters that do have damaging spells, the party probably has Counterspell anyway, meaning that the enemy caster just gets shut down, and the DM reacts to this by not using enemy caster monsters. It's all kind of on a loop. The more resistances the party has to enemy casters, the less likely the DM is going to use enemy casters because they aren't very interesting encounters. Having the baddy deal half damage and/or completely lose actions round after round isn't going to rock anyone's boat. I guess my basic question is, how big of a deal is this actually? How many creatures, and how commonly used are they? Sure, we're nerfing the resistances to a Lich. Great. But, how many liches do you tend to see in a campaign? One? Two at the outside? So, it's not like these resistances mattered all that much anyway in the larger scheme of things. Then again, I have a slightly different point of view since I am a big fan of using non-WotC monsters. Which means that having non-spell magical attacks was pretty common for me all the way along. This isn't something new for me. So, maybe that's why I'm not seeing it as a big change. It's just WotC falling in line with what everyone else is already doing. [/QUOTE]
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