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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8000979" data-attributes="member: 6988941">It's a team game, and the frontline martial character is about as indispensable as they come. Which is not to say completely indispensable, because this is 5th edition, but still they are there making the wizards look good by keeping them safe, and the wizard should be spending many of their spells making them look good through buffs, debuffs, and other battlefield control. If anything the martials are the ones who get to lay down the hurt round after round whilst the full spellcasters have to divide their attention between moments of glory and support work.Really the only times class imbalances actually bother me or seem to bother people around me are when someone either beats you at your own specialty in some way or has an ability that would just go so good with your character's abilities. One of my very first games my illusionist wizard was definitely jealous when the warlock could disguise self at will (I can't get that option until level 18!). I've definitely seen rogues get envious of people who could cast invisibility (though that particular case has the simple solution of getting them to cast it on the rogue). But at the end of the day, just like in real life, nobody will outclass you at everything so take pride in what you do well.As for magic items, in my experience this already happens on an ad-hoc level because most DMs just don't hand out as many magic items oriented towards spellcasters as they do +X weapons. Certainly not as many that radically boost their overall effectiveness the way a better weapon that a martial character uses every turn does. Maybe your games are filled with staves of the magi, mine haven't been. But yeah, if you have problems with overpowered spellcasters don't give out (or eliminate from the game, or whatever) items that either a) give them lots of extra spells and/or b) increase their spell save DC. The game doesn't seem to be well balanced for the latter in particular. The highest unaugmented spell save they can get is 19, which is exactly the point where any enemy without a negative modifier still has at least some chance of saving. If jealousies are an issue also make a point of not giving out any item that mirrors a major ability of any character at the table.The wonderful thing about magic items balance-wise is that they can be completely tailored to a DMs taste in both abilities and availability.</blockquote>

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