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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6362244" data-attributes="member: 2011">How long does it take to cast a spell in real life? Seriously?And the fighter is not attacking in the same fashion over and over again. He's making different moves, but he's still limited to how powerful of a blow he can get in based on weapon type and his strength, hence, the damage is similar. Some players consider combat to be a fluid thing. Other players consider little plastic miniatures to be sitting on a grid, swinging their plastic swords the same way over and over again.Let me get this straight. A D&D fighter with a starting Str of 16 can carry 240 pounds all day long without getting fatigued (shy of DM intervention, but certainly for the time it takes to explore a dungeon), but the mundane classes are incapable of doing things beyond the real world? Even with the variant encumbrance rules, that same PC can carry 80 pounds non-encumbered, and 160 pounds lightly encumbered.Note: Real soldiers tend to have 80 to 90 pounds of gear, 130 in extreme circumstances, not 160 or 240.A PC might take 3+ rounds (20 seconds) to Dash/Move 100 yards, but he can keep it up for as long as the DM allows. He can do a mile (with gear on) in less than 6 minutes. He can swim a 100 meters in just over 7 rounds (beating the Olympic record by about 14 seconds).The main thing that D&D 5E PCs are limited in is movement in a single round which has historically been because they are not just moving, but observing their surroundings, avoiding enemies, etc. But, this is not a factor of class.</blockquote>

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