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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jensun" data-source="post: 3426391" data-attributes="member: 6504">Probably true and I entirely agree that Shapechange would be added to the top of my list of broken things.  I still cant fathom why they thought the spell needed a buff from its 3e version.  Again yes, Undead HD increase too fast for their CR rating and making any attempt to turn them a waste of your action.  It similarly affects Rebuking and any attempt by the rules to have Undead archvillians with horde of minions.  My main problem with Wish is the infamous Efreeti gate/bind/ally problem.  They included the limitation on using SLA's which would cost xp as spells in the Summoning section but left it out of the Calling one.  And just continue to get more broken with each book printed.  There are no so many different versions of the spell that I actually no longer know how these work.  I might be tempted to include Wild Shape here as well.The main problem I found with it was that everyone just wanted enormous stat boosters which caused even more disparity in the 3e save/DC gap.  It does sort of feel that they were sitting around one day and just pulled the modifier out of thin air without actually thinking about it at all.  I tend to only treat the original three books as core. Everything else is a splat book and a source of potential headaches.</blockquote>