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Not by mid-level he can't. The party can go "Ok" and do without by sacrificing more power to that encounter. The fighter is approximately 1/N of the standard combat capability where N is the number of PCs. That's much easier to handle.

As I wrote above. it'd be nice if D&D offered stronger support whether via items, NPCs, factional support, non-magical equivalents, or publicly available magical access to turn magical necessities into conveniences.

OK, Wizard 1 and 2 suggest the first mooks should crank while wizard 3 drops a web to keep more undesirables out. Or 2 enlarges after laying down web and grease. Or... I can go on.

Yeah, the DM can throw the players a bone.

Summon 2 earth elementasl to turn and a wall of stone to keep out the mooks.

It may be team-based, but he who can, will call the tune. If people want to explore the shipwreck, but the caster doesn't want to prep/cast waterbreathing then the group will do something else! If the caster wants to go home and moral suasion cannot convince him otherwise then either the group...

Oh! The party fought in its entire. That said, the Wizard was something of a paranoid and wasted a lot of power keeping defensive spells up when they probably weren't necessary. Do Fighters and Rogues have value? Of course, I never meant to imply they don't. It's just that they literally...

Assuming you are asking why the group didn't kill their Wizard -- for the same reason they left when he wanted to. He was their only known route home. Can one or more PCs of any class kill a PC? Sure! Combat-wise, most of the classes are decently balanced in DPR and resiliency. Can one or...

ff Here's a quick anecdote from a 3.5 game I ran: The group has cleared an ancient monastery of bandits and are doing a final pass to clean up/check for secrets before heading out. They notice via the Druid's Detect Magic that one of the mosaics in the living areas is a magic item. The...

Obviously, he got better. How is a mystery for the players to solve! (next session. After I've had a chance to find a solution).

Perhaps they might have! I wouldn't know. I stopped attending that session and the game wound up shortly thereafter.

I have no objection to weird jaunts; they can be a lot of fun especially around session #xxx when people's interest is flagging. These were one-way trips early in the campaigns without player input. The universe was explicitly destroyed and we were the only survivors in one going from the Hero...

G'day Folks, I understand if it was intentional, but I just thought I'd ask. I was just about to post a reply in the Consent in Gaming thread and couldn't because it is closed. There isn't a closing message so I thought I'd ask if this is deliberate?

3 separate GMs. Average experience when pulling those stunts was well over a decade of running. There seemed to be a fad of "well the players think they know what's going to happen and have built characters to deal with it. Let's Gilligan Island them and see how the fish out of water do in...

Still better than... Session 0: Hey, guys! I've got a cool campaign that I want to run, blah blah blah... Sessions 1 through 4 or so: Exciting stuff happens... Session 5 And in an amazing plot twist the world is not what you thought it was! You find the access port to the main starship/you...

Oh, it is fine, it's just a trade off. For example, Here are the 11 first-level spells one of my magic-users knows: Charm Person Comprehend Language Dancing Lights Detect Magic Detect Secret Doors Feather Fall Identify Magic Missile Mending Read Magic Unseen Servant He had tried and failed...

Yep, that's the one. Maximum number of spells known limits the number of spells a magic-user can ever learn (creating new spells excepted) for each spell level. A magic-user got one chance to learn a spell using the chance to know percentage, and no ability to erase that knowledge -- even if...

Two types of slots in 1e: (a) spells known and (b) spells memorized (or prepared in more modern parlance) Knowing sleep eats a known spells slot. Is this likely to be a problem at 1st level? No., but if your Int is merely 16, you've already consumed about a quarter of the total 1st level...

Once a day for a limited opposition types. And one of your 9 to 18 1st level slots was now locked in something that will have degrading value over time. It was a big trade off. Often one a player liked, but a trade off.

If the adventure is raiding a ship on the sea bottom, the group of fighters and rogues are completely SOL unless and until the DM throws them a bone.. If the adventure is on a timer and the fastest ship can only get there 2 days after the evil ritual completes, the group is stuck unless it can...