If you feel you need to nerf it a bit, you could add the concentration requirement, but allowing these spells to affect others just feels more realistic and useful. Removing the range of self (in 99% 0f the cases) means you can do more interesting things with the utility spells. However, caster classes feel very limited when they can’t use their magic for other people. The minimum range of Self cuts off a lot of narrative options, and it’s there to try to grant the illusion of balance to the situations. Divine Favor? Why can’t I bless our monk before they go into one on one battle against their corrupted teacher? Why can’t I pump the fighter with Blur or drop Comprehend Languages on our animal companion? I don’t want to Contact Other Plane to reach out to the dread demon you want to contact, but I’ll totally cast it on your character’s idiotic butt. As a wizard, why can’t I cast Alter Self on the rogue. This is one of my biggest gripes about a lot of spells. So, without anymore caterwauling about 5e’s magic system, here are the five changes you should make to your D&D 5e magic system RIGHT NOW! 1. A lot of it is carried through from other editions and fits tropes that work in some arenas, but not others. All that being said, there are some places where the limitations in 5e’s magic system are just… dumb. Mages can cast fireball and prestidigitation, some of the cheesiness of “Shut down the situation” type spells is mitigated or gone, and the simple “grants advantage when situation matches X, Y, and Z” is a phenomenal easy bump system that prevents the +42 to skill check of Pathfinder 1e and D&D 3.5. Overall it’s great, simple enough, and conforms to the tropes of D&D. I’ve been running a lot more D&D 5e recently, and there are always a few pieces of the Vancian style magic sub-system that rankle me.
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