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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 9240088" data-attributes="member: 8863">I think the writers of the splats didn't think a great many things through.&nbsp; And given the high turnover rate of people at WotC during 3e it's not too surprising that some designers didn't quite understand what they were working with.&nbsp; The rapid pace of releases didn't help either.Honestly, it's okay if a fighter has a lot of cool combat feats, because that's supposed to be his benefit in the first place.&nbsp; He's the combat expert.&nbsp; The barbarian has rage, the paladin and ranger have their special abilities and spells, and the monk just sucks.&nbsp; The get feats too, but where they get to be good at maybe one aspect of combat, the fighter can do multiple styles and that's fine.&nbsp; Some powerful feats should have prerequisites (and prerequisites that actually make sense) so PC's can't front load them. Counterspelling is a nice flavorful option even if it doesn't come up too often.&nbsp; Dispel magic can act as a universal counterspell and some spells are paired as counters to each other such as haste and slow.&nbsp; I think the idea was there to let wizards have something like spell duels in combat every so often, but the type of spells prepped by players didn't lend themselves to the concept very well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 9240088, member: 8863"] I think the writers of the splats didn't think a great many things through. And given the high turnover rate of people at WotC during 3e it's not too surprising that some designers didn't quite understand what they were working with. The rapid pace of releases didn't help either. Honestly, it's okay if a fighter has a lot of cool combat feats, because [B]that's supposed to be his benefit in the first place.[/B] He's the combat expert. The barbarian has rage, the paladin and ranger have their special abilities and spells, and the monk just sucks. The get feats too, but where they get to be good at maybe one aspect of combat, the fighter can do multiple styles and that's fine. Some powerful feats should have prerequisites (and prerequisites that actually make sense) so PC's can't front load them. Counterspelling is a nice flavorful option even if it doesn't come up too often. [I]Dispel magic [/I]can act as a universal counterspell and some spells are paired as counters to each other such as [I]haste [/I]and [I]slow. [/I]I think the idea was there to let wizards have something like spell duels in combat every so often, but the type of spells prepped by players didn't lend themselves to the concept very well. [/QUOTE]

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