ngilop
2013-02-08, 11:41 AM
Hello everybody! One of the things that I have noticed that to me in terms of offenders of whatw ent wrong from 1st/2nd to 3rd ed is how terrible spell damage had become
Oh for sure, the actual damage really didn't go down ( well except for polar ray.. who ever thought that a 6th level spell ootion in previous editions needed to be an 8th level spells needs to be kicked in the gonads..twice) It is really resistance and more so HP that weakened direct damage via spells as a worthwhile option.
while there is much better fix(es) on GiTP than the one im about to do, this is meant to be realtively simple an easy for other DM who feel the same way as I do about this to take some relatively minor corrective actions.
well first off Lets change some base damage
spells from level 1-3 are decent so.. lets leave them as is (with one exception)
no need to fear fireball still does d6/level and burning hands does 1d4/level.
what has changed. Flamingh sphere is now a 1st level spell.
Now we hit a breaking point
from 7th level on Hit points are exponetially higher while poor old evocation stays static only gaining more energy types and shapes to do d6/level for pretty bad when your 8th level spell is only doing 15d6...
so for 4th and 5th level spells the damage is increased by 50%, so instead of doing 10d6 for your cone of cold with this fix you are doing 10d6(1.5), a little more oomph if you will for you spells
for 6th and 7th base damage is doulbed so instead of doing 12d6 dmg with your delayed blast fireball you are now doing 12d6(2), pretty hefty and somewhat scary, no?
ok now for 8th and 9th level spells triple that base damage, or as I like to call it bring the pain for poor old meteor swarm.
so now instead of doing 4 (6d6) damage you are now doing 4 (6d6 X3)
now we add the following spells to the evocation list
All the power word spells, becasue you are invoking the powers of the word of creation.
also those sweet little nuggets of damage.. you know the orb of X's yeah
they get moved to Evocation as well
why becuase Orb of force conjures a non magical orb of magical energy..
so in short
Flaming SPhere is now level 1. the orb of X spells are now evocation, as are the power word spells
4th and 5th evocation spells do 1.5 damage
6th and 7th evocation spells do X2 damage
8th and 9th evocation spells do X3 damage
Oh for sure, the actual damage really didn't go down ( well except for polar ray.. who ever thought that a 6th level spell ootion in previous editions needed to be an 8th level spells needs to be kicked in the gonads..twice) It is really resistance and more so HP that weakened direct damage via spells as a worthwhile option.
while there is much better fix(es) on GiTP than the one im about to do, this is meant to be realtively simple an easy for other DM who feel the same way as I do about this to take some relatively minor corrective actions.
well first off Lets change some base damage
spells from level 1-3 are decent so.. lets leave them as is (with one exception)
no need to fear fireball still does d6/level and burning hands does 1d4/level.
what has changed. Flamingh sphere is now a 1st level spell.
Now we hit a breaking point
from 7th level on Hit points are exponetially higher while poor old evocation stays static only gaining more energy types and shapes to do d6/level for pretty bad when your 8th level spell is only doing 15d6...
so for 4th and 5th level spells the damage is increased by 50%, so instead of doing 10d6 for your cone of cold with this fix you are doing 10d6(1.5), a little more oomph if you will for you spells
for 6th and 7th base damage is doulbed so instead of doing 12d6 dmg with your delayed blast fireball you are now doing 12d6(2), pretty hefty and somewhat scary, no?
ok now for 8th and 9th level spells triple that base damage, or as I like to call it bring the pain for poor old meteor swarm.
so now instead of doing 4 (6d6) damage you are now doing 4 (6d6 X3)
now we add the following spells to the evocation list
All the power word spells, becasue you are invoking the powers of the word of creation.
also those sweet little nuggets of damage.. you know the orb of X's yeah
they get moved to Evocation as well
why becuase Orb of force conjures a non magical orb of magical energy..
so in short
Flaming SPhere is now level 1. the orb of X spells are now evocation, as are the power word spells
4th and 5th evocation spells do 1.5 damage
6th and 7th evocation spells do X2 damage
8th and 9th evocation spells do X3 damage