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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 4717148" data-attributes="member: 20239">Unfortunately, casters can make their own magic items (and IME, often did, at least for wands and scrolls). I fail to see how changing the encounter make-up is going to level the playing field. Anything that will challenge the casters more is also going to challenge the non-casters more. My experience was that most non-casters were already on the ragged edge of keeping up when encounters were moderately challenging to casters. Simple making encounters tougher or longer just meant PCs (almost always the frontline melee characters) started dying.&nbsp;I agree with this, although IMO it really comes down to the players who are running the casters rather than the DM unless the DM does some heavy house-ruling regarding what spells and class abilities are allowable. For a while in 3.5, I was playing a Druid with a bear companion. It became obvious that my bear was &quot;stealing&quot; fun from the party's Fighter. The Fighter wanted to kick butt in melee but anything within the realm of challenging (i.e. wouldn't wipe the floor with him the first round) for him was quickly dispatched by my buffed bear companion within a round or two. So, I retired that character and played something else. We all play the game for different reasons, but most people enjoy the rolling dice and killing stuff part of the game to some extent and my Druid character was very simply taking away opportunities from the Fighter's player to do those things and transferring them to me via the animal companion. To me, it was a major flaw that part of the &quot;point&quot; of the Druid class in 3e was the animal companion and the result of it was this unfair transfer of fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 4717148, member: 20239"] Unfortunately, casters can make their own magic items (and IME, often did, at least for wands and scrolls). I fail to see how changing the encounter make-up is going to level the playing field. Anything that will challenge the casters more is also going to challenge the non-casters more. My experience was that most non-casters were already on the ragged edge of keeping up when encounters were moderately challenging to casters. Simple making encounters tougher or longer just meant PCs (almost always the frontline melee characters) started dying. I agree with this, although IMO it really comes down to the players who are running the casters rather than the DM unless the DM does some heavy house-ruling regarding what spells and class abilities are allowable. For a while in 3.5, I was playing a Druid with a bear companion. It became obvious that my bear was "stealing" fun from the party's Fighter. The Fighter wanted to kick butt in melee but anything within the realm of challenging (i.e. wouldn't wipe the floor with him the first round) for him was quickly dispatched by my buffed bear companion within a round or two. So, I retired that character and played something else. We all play the game for different reasons, but most people enjoy the rolling dice and killing stuff part of the game to some extent and my Druid character was very simply taking away opportunities from the Fighter's player to do those things and transferring them to me via the animal companion. To me, it was a major flaw that part of the "point" of the Druid class in 3e was the animal companion and the result of it was this unfair transfer of fun. [/QUOTE]

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