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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5909756" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>Basic and AD&D: We saw some higher level dominance of wizards, but this tended not to bother us then because we were playing some variation of Fantasy Vietnam, and any player that lost a character had to "start over" at whatever point we agreed was the starting level of the campaign. Since characters rarely cracked 15th, and most of the time were in the 5th to 9th range, the default "balance over time" worked well enough for us then. At 11th or so, wizards were dominant, but we didn't mind, since the poor guys had to put up with so much flak the rest of the time.</p><p> </p><p>3E: Only played it with my current group, who are uniformly careful and nice with social contract to not overshadow other players. Our objection to 3E on these grounds was not that we couldn't make it work for us, but that it takes too much work to avoid caster dominance at higher levels. Could solve 75% of caster issues by the simple expedient of forced multiclassing limiting caster spell progressions to no better than what the bard gets. If that was the only objection to 3E, would quite enjoy that. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p> </p><p>4E: Haven't played enough high level 4E to comment. In the upper ends of the heroic tier, have not experienced the beginnings of caster dominance that we would typically see in 3E, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5909756, member: 54877"] Basic and AD&D: We saw some higher level dominance of wizards, but this tended not to bother us then because we were playing some variation of Fantasy Vietnam, and any player that lost a character had to "start over" at whatever point we agreed was the starting level of the campaign. Since characters rarely cracked 15th, and most of the time were in the 5th to 9th range, the default "balance over time" worked well enough for us then. At 11th or so, wizards were dominant, but we didn't mind, since the poor guys had to put up with so much flak the rest of the time. 3E: Only played it with my current group, who are uniformly careful and nice with social contract to not overshadow other players. Our objection to 3E on these grounds was not that we couldn't make it work for us, but that it takes too much work to avoid caster dominance at higher levels. Could solve 75% of caster issues by the simple expedient of forced multiclassing limiting caster spell progressions to no better than what the bard gets. If that was the only objection to 3E, would quite enjoy that. :D 4E: Haven't played enough high level 4E to comment. In the upper ends of the heroic tier, have not experienced the beginnings of caster dominance that we would typically see in 3E, though. [/QUOTE]
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