New Posts For Thread: Strange love: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Wizardhttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29066243/Strange_love:_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_WizardSo... there's a lot of hate for the wizard out there... The atombomb of previous editions ot so it's said.A few of us have played for decades without having issues with that class, so here I give the view I have of the wizard and why it doesn't botheThe scry & teleport thing isn't much different than the Star Trek transporter. Now, I haven't played the Star Trek rpg, but I would imagine it works fine within the context of the modules created for it. I guess in that case it's just a case of dhttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29066243/Strange_love:_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Wizard?post_id=518806491#518806491The scry & teleport thing isn't much different than the Star Trek transporter. Now, I haven't played the Star Trek rpg, but I would imagine it works fine within the context of the modules created for it. I guess in that case it's just a case of dThu, 19 Apr 2012 16:00:49 -0500A friend of mine discouraged that kind of thing by having reinforcements outside the room of the scried enemy, and using dimensional lock once the PCs ported in. Nearly wiped the party with that.http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29066243/Strange_love:_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Wizard?post_id=518780043#518780043A friend of mine discouraged that kind of thing by having reinforcements outside the room of the scried enemy, and using dimensional lock once the PCs ported in. Nearly wiped the party with that.Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:00:49 -0500Biggest grudge with 3.5e i had is that our high level gameplay often degenerated into scry-teleport missions.Scry, usually on a known minion of a bad guy, teleport in fully buffed, nuke, teleport away.If scouting was needed, there was a druid in thehttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29066243/Strange_love:_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Wizard?post_id=518779317#518779317Biggest grudge with 3.5e i had is that our high level gameplay often degenerated into scry-teleport missions.Scry, usually on a known minion of a bad guy, teleport in fully buffed, nuke, teleport away.If scouting was needed, there was a druid in theThu, 19 Apr 2012 03:10:18 -0500Now fully evil level 15 red wizard enters a tavern looking for trouble - tavern is more like a stronghold for the enemy.DM has two 20 level NPCs in wait ready to take the red wizard down... cleric and monk.Wizard casts maximized horrid wilting on thehttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29066243/Strange_love:_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Wizard?post_id=518779183#518779183Now fully evil level 15 red wizard enters a tavern looking for trouble - tavern is more like a stronghold for the enemy.DM has two 20 level NPCs in wait ready to take the red wizard down... cleric and monk.Wizard casts maximized horrid wilting on theThu, 19 Apr 2012 03:00:17 -0500Thanks for trying to help, but:a) I already told the DM that I was going to be much more powerful (and I don't mean it in a damage-dealing way) than anyone else in the party. I warned him about the problems with the edition, he still wanted to use thhttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29066243/Strange_love:_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Wizard?post_id=518778925#518778925Thanks for trying to help, but:a) I already told the DM that I was going to be much more powerful (and I don't mean it in a damage-dealing way) than anyone else in the party. I warned him about the problems with the edition, he still wanted to use thThu, 19 Apr 2012 02:30:38 -0500