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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7564766" data-attributes="member: 12377"><p>It really depends on party composition. A smart wizard (or sorcerer) will have a number of tricks up their sleeve to avoid even getting attacked, like <em>misty step</em> and <em>greater invisibility</em> and <em>dimension door</em>. And if you've got good tanks and even halfway-decent healing, they party can usually pull the wizard out of a tight jam.</p><p></p><p>I recently DMed a campaign from 1-20, and during that time, only two characters died, and one was a wizard. At around level 14, the kenku wizard was killed when he was polymorphed into a bird, and the beholder cleric pointed its anti-magic cone at him, and he fell into a disintegration field (like a force field, but it disintegrates you). In contrast, the cleric got slammed into the disintegration field by telekinesis, and the barbarian voluntarily ran across the field to rescue the cleric, and neither died because they both had enough hit points to absorb 10d6 + 40 force damage. The wizard was already hurt, though, and got dusted. In that encounter, the beholder was targeting magic-users, and the sorcerer would have probably died if the beholder had lived another round.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7564766, member: 12377"] It really depends on party composition. A smart wizard (or sorcerer) will have a number of tricks up their sleeve to avoid even getting attacked, like [I]misty step[/I] and [I]greater invisibility[/I] and [I]dimension door[/I]. And if you've got good tanks and even halfway-decent healing, they party can usually pull the wizard out of a tight jam. I recently DMed a campaign from 1-20, and during that time, only two characters died, and one was a wizard. At around level 14, the kenku wizard was killed when he was polymorphed into a bird, and the beholder cleric pointed its anti-magic cone at him, and he fell into a disintegration field (like a force field, but it disintegrates you). In contrast, the cleric got slammed into the disintegration field by telekinesis, and the barbarian voluntarily ran across the field to rescue the cleric, and neither died because they both had enough hit points to absorb 10d6 + 40 force damage. The wizard was already hurt, though, and got dusted. In that encounter, the beholder was targeting magic-users, and the sorcerer would have probably died if the beholder had lived another round. [/QUOTE]
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