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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6860160" data-attributes="member: 996">But it's not a bolt of fire.&nbsp; It might look like one via Sense Shifting (2e) or Spell Thematics (3e), but it's not doing fire damage.&nbsp; No one in 1e was throwing bolts of fire around.&nbsp; Balls and columns and fans and sheets and squares and walls and clouds and vaguely humanoid elementals and even chariots, but not bolts.&nbsp; Unless you count casting Flame Arrow on some crossbow bolts.&nbsp; No issue at all, among the classes and sub-classes that cast offensive spells they should have no trouble each creating a unique character.&nbsp; Now, what about the contrary supposition?&nbsp; You have a table where no one really wanted to play an offensive caster, or even a caster, at all.&nbsp; You go from dozens of choices to five, and from any possible contribution to just DPR (your pick of tanky or sneaky).Seems unlikely at a 5e table.&nbsp; Not impossible, a party with all the available non-caster options and a Cleric could see the Cleric devoting himself to healing/buffing rather than offensive casting, for instance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6860160, member: 996"] But it's not a bolt of fire. It might look like one via Sense Shifting (2e) or Spell Thematics (3e), but it's not doing fire damage. No one in 1e was throwing bolts of fire around. Balls and columns and fans and sheets and squares and walls and clouds and vaguely humanoid elementals and even chariots, but not bolts. Unless you count casting Flame Arrow on some crossbow bolts. No issue at all, among the classes and sub-classes that cast offensive spells they should have no trouble each creating a unique character. Now, what about the contrary supposition? You have a table where no one really wanted to play an offensive caster, or even a caster, at all. You go from dozens of choices to five, and from any possible contribution to just DPR (your pick of tanky or sneaky). Seems unlikely at a 5e table. Not impossible, a party with all the available non-caster options and a Cleric could see the Cleric devoting himself to healing/buffing rather than offensive casting, for instance. [/QUOTE]

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