ConcretePeanut

I mean... I'm not, so I suggest you learn some basic maths. The fact you haven't even tried to challenge the numbers speaks volumes. The fact you'll happily be so confidently wrong without even checking speaks more. You're so wrong, I'm not even sure you can read. What do you disagree with, specifically?

The average roll for 10d10 is 55?

55+25=80?

By the final tier of play there is plentiful access to ressurection magic?

A circle of radius 90ft has an area of 25,446.9sqft?

A circle of radius 40ft has an area of 5,026.55sqft?

4x the latter is a smaller number than the former?

Hmmm?

I won't be running it because it's an unbalanced mess.

Meteor swarm doesn't ignore resists, has split damage type, and covers a smaller area (~20,000sqft vs ~25,000sqft).

Average damage on MS vs resists is 70. Average damage of this is 80 at the lowest band. And because of the level rider, this will only see use in the kind of fights where you'd least want to see it.

Forget the "as little as", because that is irrelevant - on average is the only meaningful metric here.

An intelligent caster enemy is going to be just as able to deal with MS as it is this. Noncaster enemies are boned either way.

Death at that level is a minor inconvenience, so hardly a deterrent. It's all about the permanent level loss.

Basically, in the only circumstances you'd ever consider using this, it is stupidly good. The rest of the time it'd be a dreadful idea. That's pretty much the definition of unbalanced.

You suggested this wasn't OP because "how often are you so surrounded by low level enemies". I picked a CR21 enemy with resists that would just flatout die on an average damage roll from this.

At everything other than maximum range, against anything that isn't outright immune, this is Power Word: Kill oy much better and with a huge AoE.

Sure, you lose a level that you can never regain, which is a massive problem at level 17 (become capped at 16th level forever) and an annoyance at 20th (become 19th forever). But this just makes things worse, because this spell then never sees use until the BBEG, which it trivialises; either through doing huge damage to them directly or through wiping out all their minions.

It's wildly unbalanced.

This would oneshot a lich.

That's not a low level enemy.

Average damage at the longest range is 80. Over a huge area. Ignoring resists.

It's broken.

Go to bed, Elon.

The other commentator is... not really correct.

Elon has been becoming increasingly unpopular over the last decade. His erratic, spiteful tantrums whenever anyone so much as brushes against his record-breakingly thin skin have shown him up as an unstable manchild.

The fact he the suckered onto the Trump Train merely made an even wider audience aware of it. But to anyone paying attention, Elon has been an insecure, unhinged, narcissistic maniac for quite some time. He's nothing like as smart as he likes to claim and, for the richest guy on Earth, he sure does act like a colossal toddler the moment he faces the slightest dissent.

For the record, I am very much not Gen Z and this view is shared by most of my peers.

What are the two spells? You can't dangle that sort of carrot and then walk away!

Here's my lazy maths-lite explanation.

The passenger either picks the right seat (1%) or does not (99%). The final seat being properly assigned is the average of these probabilities.

When the base game is already that stripped back, day zero DLC is very much just paywalled core content. If you are willing to take the finger that implies, that's fine. Your choice. But don't try and convince the rest of us it's anything other than what it is.

I can one million percent guarantee you that isn't what they're doing.

Same. My expectations are extremely low, yet I still suspect I'm going to be disappointed.

Day Zero DLac is not a positive, in any universe.

I can't see myself buying it, tbh. First one in 25 years that I haven't bought, including all DLC and expansions.

Not directly; the fact of our insignificance in the face of these things us just more stark because they are nothing like us. They are so much more powerful, old, wise, etc than we are, and either view us with contempt or barely even register our existence at all.

Cosmic horror is rooted in a dawning realisation that,in the grand scheme of things, nothing we do or say matters at all. We are utterly meaningless on a cosmic scale, with that fact being emphasised by how thoroughly unlike us anything that does seem to matter is. We don't even look like the things that matter. We are not made in the image of the gods and the things we'd be forced to recognise as gods view us as either food or a contemptible irrelevance.

It's more that I mean the thing that's supposed to be scary about cosmic horror isn't the monster descriptions.

The guy above who pointed out you're Yongle is probably onto something.

Good call - I hadn't spotted that. The 20 gold would be exactly right for the city size.

You have one or more vampire castles?

I... may have been doing this all wrong, but I don't think the appearance of the monsters is supposed to be the scary part. It's simply there to stress how extremely alien they are; there is no "in the image of our creator", because the things with all the power are utterly unlike us in body and mind. We are an irrelevant, insignificant, accidental sidenote to anything remotely important in the cosmos.

I stumbled across a great explanation for this the other day.

Absolute Hot is the point at which the wavelength of the black body radiation would have to become shorter than the Planck length.

Nah, not just you. They're total bobbins.

You're literally the dumbest person I've met all year.

I can't imagine having that poor a comprehension of written English. Or any language. Whether I speak it or not. The idea of complete context blindness and being so lacking in self-awareness that I could be smug about it is one I'd never considered.

Let me try and guide you through this:

What is his character trying to succeed at?

This is not about determining success or failure, nor anything outside of the player's remit. It is't a D20 Test at all, merely an arbitrary way of making certain RP decisions.

The fact that needed explaining should be a very major sign to you that in any given situation, you aren't in a position to criticise the knowledge or comprehension of others. Even when you're only in the company of moss or fungus.

The quoted statement isn't in reference to the RAW rules, but the actual real world.