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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8742512" data-attributes="member: 23751">This is a false premise, though. Those monsters are designed with no magic items in mind.  They are balanced with martials doing half damage, just like other creatures are balanced around casters doing half or no damage due to elemental resistances.First, so are martials.  I didn't see a single creature that had physical resistances through D in the MM that had a CR under 3, so right out of the gate they can deal damage just like casters.  Magic damage isn't relevant right out of the box.  Only damage is.  Second, around the time(earlier actually) that martials start seeing physical resistances, elemental resistances which are more common are showing up, so things are still on par in this regard.And then finds that his fire spell did 0 damage. Any poison spells do 0 damage and cold spells do half damage.  Spellcasters have limited spells available to memorize and they fill up a bunch with utility, so they aren't going to have a large selection of energy spells to pick from.  If they have the wrong ones around, they do little to no damage.Sure, if nothing has resistance to elemental damage spellcasters are a lot better at damage than fighters.  Reality isn't that way, though.  Elemental resistances are common and often cause spellcasters to do half or no damage in a round.First, this is objectively wrong.  Resistance is half damage, so he can deal damage.  Second, all he needs is a silvered weapon to do full damage.  Magic isn't needed against a bearded devil.</blockquote>

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