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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 3343552" data-attributes="member: 7859">Of course a Windwall spell, Gusting Wind and other magical defensive measures can render Archery absolutely ineffectual.As for attacking a monster at extreme long range.  Wizards quite honestly do it better, as there are no range increments for spells.  Standard D&D math says 13 1/2 encounters of CR = to Party level to go up to the next character level.  How many encounters are you running in a day?  3-5 would be a standard guess.Most Wizards can hang with 3-4 encounters w/o much of a problem.  Also I would point out that the most limiting factor against the lonewolf attack at extreme range is the size of people's Battlemats.  Spot and Listen penalties stack up so quickly it is not unreasonable for a monster with a modicum of sneakiness to be able to just appear at the edge of the battlemat, especially if terrain is implied, like forest, hills, etc.  Most battlemats I have seen are not more than 200' long in D&D terms, which is not that extreme of range, many characters can run the length of a Battlemat in 1-2 rounds.  Likewise it would also make sense that if the party is doing a massive overland travel trek, they would be on horses...the cars of the medieval world....</blockquote>