Incenjucar
Legend
Thief had a similar issue in our group. I usually played a ranger, though my favorite character was a pyromaniac ninja because they had skills AND durability AND fun alchemical tricks (my avatar is a distant reference to them!). Still kind of sucked how completely I was outclassed by the wizard, though. I spent a bunch of gold and effort to plant lamp oil in wine skins, they just used web + fireball.I mean, try playing a 2e Thief where even optimizing gives you at best a 50/50 to find or deal with a trap, lol. But ok, I'll chalk it up to different play experiences; the people I played 2e with were quite happy to play melee combat machines with tons of hit points. I was the only person to really play Wizards because you do a whole lot of nothing for quite some time, and can die to a stiff breeze.