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I don't find it particularly useful, but don't really mind it being around as it is.

As long as they have the same major goals and will work with the party, I don't see an issue. If anything, it's good to have a character who's willing to do the more shady stuff, sometimes stealing an item, or assassinating a rival, or making a lil' deal with the devil makes things easier.

It should be silver coins in case to help with resistances anyway.

By level 11 a Wizard can cast Animate Objects four times per day, so Fighter boi might be in for a challenge.

Fighters don't do too great against a horde of low CR creatures, even weak ones usually have enough hp to not be one-shot, at least. Say, CR 2 Ogres have 59 HP, so they'd need 2-3 attacks to kill one, even with GWM. Fireball can't one-shot either, but it's good enough to take a chunk of their...

That's fair, but I'm talking mainly on the assumption of the 6-8 stuff people keep saying all the time, if it's short they can just nova all the time and not make a difference, which is where the Fighter gets overshadowed pretty easily, and they can spend the spare lower level ones on utility...

If a long adventuring day with multiple encounters is supposed to reign in the wizard by making them spend their slots, then not having to cast it again is saving you slots and making you effective for longer. It also matters for stuff like Hypnotic Pattern, if you lose concentration they're all...

Warcaster or Resilient Constitution improve their concentration greatly, letting their spells stay up for longer. Alert gives higher init, letting them throw their spells first to incapacitate the big threats or throw a good Fireball before the enemies can move, and stops surprise so they can't...

Also worth adding that "frontline" is a bit misleading due to how easy it is to just get past the martials at the front if you're willing to take the attack of opportunity, unless they have something like Sentinel. Even then, it's still one guy at best, if a bunch just run past a Fighter to murk...

Wizards also greatly benefit from feats, magic items and stat increases. AC and HP are also pretty important for them, optimizing a wizard is pretty much just picking the right spells and multiclassing to get armor (or get a race that grants armor prof).

There was this from UA. In Tasha's it was changed to changing a cantrip or metamagic when you gain an ASI.

A thing I noticed some time ago, Rogues vs Druids in stealth and scouting. The former is usually regarded as the stealthy boy that can explore ahead for the party, but Druids are just better from what I can tell. At level 3 with the Pass Without Trace spell, they can give themselves and the...

They can probably get by with average stats. The issue is casters coming to bully them, martials can't really handle that without some other casters willing to work for them.

For the whole spell thing, I think it's fair to look at Wildshape. It's ridiculously versatile, letting you use it to fight, adapt to different terrains, fly, increase your travel speed, easily infiltrate places, blend with groups of animals, etc, and each subclass can gain ways to spend it...

I find that this type of dicussion usually defaults to Fighter vs Wizard, but something like Barbarian vs Druid is about as bad in terms of out of combat stuff, and without the extra feats to try and compensate.

Kinda reminds me of this, from Exalted.

John McClane fought an F-35 fighter jet and won. He'd find a way to beat those dragons, I'm telling ya.

Fighters are already magic due to being able to survive stuff like being crushed by thousand ton boulders, being struck by meteors, and bitten by moons. They can also regenerate from near death to completely fine in one hour, and kill building-sized monsters with a kitchen knife. I could see...

For a level 20 Fighter, if they're really optimized, then I'd say 16 Wizard at most. Once Wizard has True Polymorph and Wish at level 17, you just can't reasonably compete.

A few minutes of jogging will kill an average character of exhaustion if you use the chase rules, so there's definitely some stuff just for game mechanics that makes no sense at all.