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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5523059" data-attributes="member: 19675">In 34 years of gaming, I've never seen it in person.Just looking at my current main gaming group- together since 1998- I can't say if its because of conscious effort or not, but everyone is playing the PC they want to the way they want to.Personally, I play a lot of casters, but I design them to be consistent with the PC's own internal drives; they research and learn the spells that have elements that speak to them in particular.&nbsp; This means my PCs look a lot different from the &quot;optimized&quot; PCs you see on the boards.&nbsp; For example, I've only designed one caster in all these years who had Magic Missile on his list, and he was &quot;specialized&quot; in Force spells.Contrast that to my buddy who nearly always plays Wizards- 80+% of his D&amp;D characters are of that class.&nbsp; Up until his 4Ed cold-themed mage, you would find the spell list of his casters not only interchangeable from one to the other, but damn close to the lists you'll find online.&nbsp; Even so, though, he doesn't overshadow other players the way some might expect because of his playstyle.&nbsp; An old-school gamer like me, he always holds power in reserve, much like a RW military commander, because he knows spells are precious resources and often the key to victory.&nbsp; So instead of casting every round, he casts only enough to tip the combat irrevocably in the party's favor, then waits.&nbsp; This isn't out of some sense of letting others shine, but rather out of recognition that a serious challenge can arise at any moment...and if he's out of spells, &quot;serious&quot; could become &quot;terminal.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5523059, member: 19675"] In 34 years of gaming, I've never seen it in person. Just looking at my current main gaming group- together since 1998- I can't say if its because of conscious effort or not, but everyone is playing the PC they want to the way they want to. Personally, I play a lot of casters, but I design them to be consistent with the PC's own internal drives; they research and learn the spells that have elements that speak to them in particular. This means my PCs look a lot different from the "optimized" PCs you see on the boards. For example, I've only designed one caster in all these years who had Magic Missile on his list, and he was "specialized" in Force spells. Contrast that to my buddy who nearly always plays Wizards- 80+% of his D&D characters are of that class. Up until his 4Ed cold-themed mage, you would find the spell list of his casters not only interchangeable from one to the other, but damn close to the lists you'll find online. Even so, though, he doesn't overshadow other players the way some might expect because of his playstyle. An old-school gamer like me, he always holds power in reserve, much like a RW military commander, because he knows spells are precious resources and often the key to victory. So instead of casting every round, he casts only enough to tip the combat irrevocably in the party's favor, then waits. This isn't out of some sense of letting others shine, but rather out of recognition that a serious challenge can arise at any moment...and if he's out of spells, "serious" could become "terminal." [/QUOTE]

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