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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6633733" data-attributes="member: 5834">The first major module WotC made was a module with a ton of dragon fights. Sort of forces you to analyze the mechanics in terms of dragon fights as that was what we did often. Nearly every other encounter was a major dragon fight. It required the same tactics. The melee, str-based martial's weaknesses stood out like a sore thumb in those fights. The casters could not stand up to even a couple of rounds of the dragon hammering on them. So you sort of wanted to get the melee martials into the fight if only to get the dragon attacking them. We did learn that dex-based fighters are superior during that module. If we had ranged strikers in the Tyranny of Dragons module, the DM probably would have had to make encounters stronger. The ability of ranged fighters to move and attack from full cover is ridiculously powerful. It frees up casters to use concentration slots on more powerful spells that boost damage rather than eliminate weaknesses. I don't recommend str-based martials if you don't want to be a liability in many encounters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 6633733, member: 5834"] The first major module WotC made was a module with a ton of dragon fights. Sort of forces you to analyze the mechanics in terms of dragon fights as that was what we did often. Nearly every other encounter was a major dragon fight. It required the same tactics. The melee, str-based martial's weaknesses stood out like a sore thumb in those fights. The casters could not stand up to even a couple of rounds of the dragon hammering on them. So you sort of wanted to get the melee martials into the fight if only to get the dragon attacking them. We did learn that dex-based fighters are superior during that module. If we had ranged strikers in the Tyranny of Dragons module, the DM probably would have had to make encounters stronger. The ability of ranged fighters to move and attack from full cover is ridiculously powerful. It frees up casters to use concentration slots on more powerful spells that boost damage rather than eliminate weaknesses. I don't recommend str-based martials if you don't want to be a liability in many encounters. [/QUOTE]

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