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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alaxk Knight of Galt" data-source="post: 5895743" data-attributes="member: 4129">This article, in my mind, is pure win.  But a couple of points 1. The Fighter Is the Best at . . . Fighting!Absolutely required.  The Fighter class (and others in the Warrior sub-class) should be designed to overcome challenges by physical combat.  Magic Users and Priest use magic to overcome problems.  Likewise, Rogue classes use skills, trickery, deceit, stealth, and all sorts of mundane non-combat skills overcome challenges.  Fighting should not be the obvious answer to every problem, but a possible solution.  6. A High-Level Fighter and a High-Level Wizard Are EqualDefine equal.  The problem with a high-level wizard is that they have far more tricks then a high-level fighter.  Take the example given:  defeat an army of orcs.The Fighter might be able to defeat them, but it should be over several rounds of combat.  The fighter should win because he's tougher and has greater skill of arms then the army of orcs.  The fighter should win because he's selected the correct tactics to face the army (heavy armor and a shield, or whatever the situation might demand).That's the direct method.  Unfortunately, that's what the fighter is trained to do.  Sure, they might train the villagers to help or challenge an orc champion to one-on-one combat.  Regardless, the fighter is going to have to defeat the orc army through force of arms.The Wizard has a direct method too: fireball and cone of cold.  However, this is arguably the worst way for the Wizard to defeat the orc army.  What if he rolls poorly on his initiative.  The fighter has a chance to survive the initial orc onslaught but the wizard doesn't have the toughness or skill of arms to last.  However, the Wizard has numerous spells to overcome the problem without ever appearing on the battlefield.  He could raise an army of undead from the town cemetery, he could use invisibility and charm person to befriend the orc commander, he could use illusions to trick and demoralize the orc army.  The wizard has a whole spell book of solutions that don't involve matching the orc army blow for blow.Both characters have the means to defeat the army, but the fighter might expend 90% of his Hit Points to do it while a clever wizard might only expend one or two spells.  The outcome is the same, are they equal?</blockquote>

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