A simple fix to balance fighters vs. casters ?

[Dandu]

and as for the druids and clerics, I was referring to the fact that if the wanted to become combat orientated, they would not have any room for meta magic feats

Clerics become combat focused through the feats Extend Spell, Persist Spell, and Divine Metamagic: Persist Spell. I'm pretty sure these are metamagic feats.

they have no init bonus

Too bad Contingency works regardless of Int bonus. What is your plan to defeat a contingent Dimension Door?

and they are usually not hard to find considering their size, but for circumstantial sake, we were informed of it's location by our guild leader or whoever your boss is, it was an extermination mission, we needed its moneis!

Was the dragon just sitting on the ground waiting to be impaled, or was it flying overhead, or what?

 

[CrazyNinjabeast]

guarding it's treasure in it's cave like many dragons tend to do

 

[Dandu]

Does the terrain prevent you from charging?

 

[CrazyNinjabeast]

no it's a smooth floor

 

[Dandu]

What if it has a contingent Dimension Door to evade you?

Also, how are you evading its Blindsense 60 ft in such close quarters so as to surprise it?

 

[CrazyNinjabeast]

not surprising it, beating it's init, once it senses me, my movement speed on a mount is say 240, using a cavalier Ex ability. which would leave it 1.5 seconds to react, not even long enough to use a standard action

 

[Dandu]

Are you aware of how Contingency works?

 

[CrazyNinjabeast]

yes, and in this case it works out to my favor

 

[Dandu]

So what you are saying is that even if the dragon had a Contingency set for a Dimension Door in the event that someone attacks him, you would hit the dragon anyways.

 

[CrazyNinjabeast]

why would a red dragon have a dimensional door prepared?!?! They hardly ever scrutinize the intruder prior to attacking, due to the fact that they are proud beasts, therefore, it is highly unlikely that one would have such anti measures (btw heck yes I would hit it! I have dimensionally anchoring boots as previously mentioned)