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I'll see this and raise it another level: Make Passive Perception DCs low enough for your players to find the hidden traps. Whether...

Yup. Because every fight starts with the Wizard attacking from stealth somewhere in the next county over, far away from the rest of the...

Yay! The Wizard casts Haste! And then... does... what? 'Cause the fight typically doesn't end in 1 round. Round two, Fireball. Or Cone...

I like how you qualified Haste as the most damaging 3rd level spell -besides- Fireball. And hey, Levitate -can- shut down a single...

Hypnotic Pattern is great 'til someone pokes the Wizard with a pointy stick and breaks the effect on everyone who failed. Same with most...

In truth, neither am I. But it would give Wizardly types a tradeoff of being utility-focused with some AoE damage ability and lesser...

I disagree. I think Wizards and Sorcerers and such should be able to do really crazy wild cool stuff. I think their strict damage...

Drastically nerfed their spell casting damage ability. That's it. That's the whole thing. Make fireball deal a lot less damage, do...

No. My point was that having a game based on roles that are mechanical rather than exclusively narrative requires those roles to be good...

Cadence just mentioned that, too! Thank you, Micah! It's good information to know!

Cool to know! Thank you, Cadence!

No, it isn't. But it -tries- in the most disturbing ways possible. Still the only system I know of where you can die in character creation.

I meeeeeeeean... Tome of Battle: Book of the Nine Swords. 2 full years before 4e dropped. And that's just the first example off the...

Do you accept that a Fighter can run 30ft make a total of 6 effective attacks with two weapons and repeat it every 6 seconds...