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<blockquote data-quote="Barcode" data-source="post: 722779" data-attributes="member: 3165">I'll second that.&nbsp; We are about one year into a Dark Age era campaign.&nbsp; I designed it to be low wealth, med-low magic.&nbsp; The problem was that 5/6 characters were spellcasters of some ilk - wiz, ftr/wiz, clr, brd, dru and the straight fighter.The fighter was complaining for a long time how the spellcasters (even the bard!) consistently did more damage than he did, and were generally &quot;cooler&quot;.&nbsp; I ended up having to throw a couple of poorly defended barbarian chiefs with big magic swords at them so he would end up with an equalizing weapon.And as an aside design note - the fighter ended up going the bow specialist route - leading to a very frustrating party dynamic.&nbsp; Specifically, since they always, always, always attack from a distance whenever possible (and on a giant plain that is almost always), you never get to deliver any cool villain soliloquys.Undead Wizard bad guy:&nbsp; Ha, ha, ha!&nbsp; Puny mortal, I will use your bloated corpse to make a bath pillow for my dark master!Party (110ft away):&nbsp; Huh?&nbsp; We can't hear you over the whistling wind and pyrotechnics!&nbsp; (Keep shooting!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barcode, post: 722779, member: 3165"] I'll second that. We are about one year into a Dark Age era campaign. I designed it to be low wealth, med-low magic. The problem was that 5/6 characters were spellcasters of some ilk - wiz, ftr/wiz, clr, brd, dru and the straight fighter. The fighter was complaining for a long time how the spellcasters (even the bard!) consistently did more damage than he did, and were generally "cooler". I ended up having to throw a couple of poorly defended barbarian chiefs with big magic swords at them so he would end up with an equalizing weapon. And as an aside design note - the fighter ended up going the bow specialist route - leading to a very frustrating party dynamic. Specifically, since they always, always, always attack from a distance whenever possible (and on a giant plain that is almost always), you never get to deliver any cool villain soliloquys. Undead Wizard bad guy: Ha, ha, ha! Puny mortal, I will use your bloated corpse to make a bath pillow for my dark master! Party (110ft away): Huh? We can't hear you over the whistling wind and pyrotechnics! (Keep shooting!) [/QUOTE]

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