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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6932146" data-attributes="member: 2067">Most doors (especially in a dilapidated old dungeon) have a one-inch gap that can be Arcane Eye'd under.I mean, one character exploring an entire dungeon by themselves is, at the very least, like 15-20 minutes of real-world yawn-time for the rest of the party to go grab a beer. It's also a useful "I have an entire map of this place now" spell, combined with an "I know the surface-level contents of every room" spell with a dash of "I know how many creatures and of what type are living here" spell. That's not every avenue for surprise shut down, but it's a lot of 'em. It should be a useful spell (a 5th level Divination spell ain't nothin'!), but that seemed like an outsized effect that also had a negative effect on the other players of the game.But this shows that in addition to having diminishing returns, balance is also subjective - what is massive in one game might not be a big deal in another game. That's why you get massive threads about how broken/not broken certain mechanics are. Every game is empowered to decide for itself what it can allow unaltered and what it wants to change. Last game, Arcane Eye was one of those things we wanted to change. Next game, maybe it'll be the homebrew rogue class we're running with. As long as everyone at my table's happy, doesn't really matter what someone at some other table thinks is appropriately balanced or not. Which is also why the core game gets no special gold star for balance. They're good rules, but they cannot be perfect at every table, and making rulings and ad hoc decisions on balance is part and parcel of playing the game.</blockquote>

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