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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8592630" data-attributes="member: 19675">I think part of the problem is that D&D has always tried to encompass the broadest possible range of fantasy and mythological tropes…for spellcasters and other mystical heroes. The game has never been so broadly friendly to the “mundane” archetypes.And when people who want to play mundane, gritty heroes alongside near-gods, well…it’s not necessary going to be their cup of tea.OTOH, a lot of people over the history of the game ditched some of the rules that actually limited caster power- less control over spells known/learned (it used to randomized), fewer spell slots, damage being disruptive of casting, casting times, component requirements, etc.- and those rules gradually weakened or disappeared.Disclosure: none of that bugged me, personally. I’ve rarely played single classed full casters, and when I have, they were definitely not optimized game-gods, their spell selections (and later, feat selections, etc.) were idiosyncratic to the character in question.When I really want to run/play in fantasy campaigns where martial and mystic heroes are better balanced, I start looking at point buy systems, especially toolkit systems like HERO, GURPS and the like.</blockquote>