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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8084833" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I agree that flavour text should be consistent with the magnitude of effect. You can't get loose with epic flavour on a low-level spell otherwise you run out of it when you get to higher level ones... but games are written by multiple people so it's possible for different spells to have different tones.</p><p></p><p>Also, designers might be tempted to go too far with flavour on low-level spells because they are the first to be seen by newcomers, whom they might want to impress <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I remember in 3e there was a cantrip saying "with the foul powers of necromancy..." and all it did was maybe telling you who was dead or alive. </p><p></p><p>I have to say I'd rather prefer 5e approach of keeping a low tone with spells flavour (most flavour descriptions are one-liners, even Earthquake or Meteor Swarm have tame descriptions) and assume a DM would decide to add to that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 8084833, member: 1465"] I agree that flavour text should be consistent with the magnitude of effect. You can't get loose with epic flavour on a low-level spell otherwise you run out of it when you get to higher level ones... but games are written by multiple people so it's possible for different spells to have different tones. Also, designers might be tempted to go too far with flavour on low-level spells because they are the first to be seen by newcomers, whom they might want to impress :) I remember in 3e there was a cantrip saying "with the foul powers of necromancy..." and all it did was maybe telling you who was dead or alive. I have to say I'd rather prefer 5e approach of keeping a low tone with spells flavour (most flavour descriptions are one-liners, even Earthquake or Meteor Swarm have tame descriptions) and assume a DM would decide to add to that. [/QUOTE]
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