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While wizard is casting a spell the fighter can throw him half-dozen of axes, or a stone with a explosive rune.

Jan 25, 2013 -- 11:58PM, CCS wrote:

..."window.parent.tinyMCE.get('post_content').onLoad.dispatch();" contenteditable="true" />The problem doesn't really lie with the wizards being over-powered at ___ LV.  Or the druids.  Or the clerics.  Or whatever other caster class you want to complain about that week.
No, the real culprit in all of these "x is over-powered" sob stories has pretty much always been the DM. 
And always will be.

Of course it because using the system as written is JUST PLAIN WRONG!  And all us GMs who believe that the game system will be built along the lines of fairness are stupid and should be banned from GMing ever again.

Jan 25, 2013 -- 11:58PM, CCS wrote:

Because no matter what the designers write?  It's the DMs that are actually responsible for virtually everthing that happens throughout a campaign.  Including:
Allowing wich spells are in the game they're running. 
Determining the effects of those spells. 
How much/what types of treasure get found. 
For allowing wich magic items exist, are found/bought, & crafted.
Wich types & how many foes to include per encounter.
Even when to stick with RAW or changing something.

Other than this is the 'Oberani Fallacy', do you know what Wil Wheaton says?  "Don't be a dick."  And you know what I have to BE when I restrict ONE CLASS, JUST ONE CLASS, so that everyone can play nice in the sandbox?  A dick.  A jerk.  Because I have to make ONE PLAYER SUFFER because he wants to play a Caster type (typically a wizard.)

And do you know what is hilarious?  YOU ARE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YES, THERE IS A SYSTEM PROBLEM WITH MAGIC!  "But, no," you'll say.  And I point out the fact that you are suggesting TAKING AWAY BROKEN MECHANICS under the guise of 'house rules/fixing'.

So you KNOW full well that Magic IS indeed broken and is indeed in dire need of fixing.  Because if it didn't need fixing, there'd be no need to restrict or remove.

Thank you very much for proving, once again, that Magic IS broken in D&D.

Wizards weren't underpowered at low level, they just weren't able to spam their overpowered spells (I'm not talking about damaging spells, of course).

The problem is the wizard being Master-of-all trades, even if it's once per day.
The specialist wizard should be the default, and generalists should loose something for their lack of focus.

Balancing the generalist vs the other classes and then adding features to reward specilization is a nonsense. 

Why does everyone seem to think that having "balanced" classes is all that important?
if wizards were really overpowered we would see all-wizards parties, yet we don't.
could it be that being fun to play is a more important balancing factor than simple threat elimination ?

People run around praising "balance" as if it's the most important thing for this game to be fun, yet what proof do we have that it is really something that's desirable?

And what is balance anyway?
Being able to do as much damage in the same amount of time? is that it?
how long are we talking? 1 round? (where the rogue is the clear winner) an encounter? a string of 10 encounters? (when those vancian spells begin to pale in comparison with the at-will goodness of the sharpened stick)
What about the risks? do they factor in ? (i'm talking about the no-armor clause and poor HD) If your "unballanced" wizard is dead, is he still more powerfull than the very-much-still-alive fighter?
what about what happends OUTSIDE combat? does that stuff matters to anyone?

Dnd is about a team, each with his own DIFFERENT capacities, working togetter to overcome obstacles.

I think it would be far more simple to just learn to live with the fact that a guy who bends the laws of physics to his will should be able to do stuff that is impossible for a guy who's top ability is "being good at swinging a blunt object."


I, for one,  would like the design team to try and work more on making each class as UNIQUE and FUN as possible, and less on trying to achieve a sort of artificial balance that wouldn't satisfy most players anyway.