LogFAQs > #942257275

I don't play 5th - I tried, and found it too restrictive and limited to hold my attention

No kidding.

Take spells for example. Across the entire line of 5e books, there's only something like 492 spells. Occult Philosophy - which is just one book for the Shadow of the Demon Lord TTRPG - has over 800 spells in it. And if you use all of of SotDL's books, there's a total of just over 1,500 spells in the game.

I mean flipping hell, that's outright embarrassing for 5e! Why does it have so few spells? Thanks to that, almost every Warlock just uses Eldritch Blast all the time. Same thing with Clerics and Toll the Dead. That gets boring really fucking quick.

There's little to no spell variety between magic-users in 5e, especially ones who belong to the same class. All 5e Wizards are just glorified pallette swaps of each other, there's no real variety or distinctive character options to set them apart.

In SotDL, magic-users have tons upon tons of options to set them apart from each other, just based off the amount of spells in the game alone. But then if you also consider how classes and magic traditions work in SotDL, you're looking at a system that has almost literally infinite possibilities for magic-user builds.
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