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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 918578" data-attributes="member: 3146">Sure. I don't think anyone here would argue that 3e wizards can be very effective if they're well designed. And from your description of the character, it would probably be quite hard to make a wizard more effective than he is. (Although, I wouldn't call the damage from the arcs of a chain lightning spell a "quibble." If you were giving them full damage instead of half, then the example doesn't work at all).However, I think it's possible to make an equally effective (at least in as far as the example was rules-compliant) fighter-type character in 3e--and probably in 3.5e too. I don't think that it will be possible to make a wizard character even close to that effective under 3.5e.I'll admit I've been pretty thin-skinned and abrasive on this thread. I tell myself it's reacting to a hostile environment. Hmmm. I actually think I was right about the example being applicable to your home game but not the realm of D&D core rules balance although I could certainly have said so with less hyperbole.</blockquote>