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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cross ofth carpenter" data-source="post: 6186018" data-attributes="member: 6750279">On Forums on 3.5, usually the topic of fighters and spellcasters (more narrowly wizards) with the most people saying that fighters are low tierand don't do as well while magic-users dominate etc.I think that is debatable and a good case could be made for fightersand more narrowly against wizards but balancing the perceived powersome magic-users may have.Now some aspects of this that are not considered are thatwizards in particular, perhaps due to their ego and power areusually semi-antisocial and most likely to be feared and distrustedby the community and society.Whereas fighters, provided they have the same religionas the community and are not a source of disorder are likely to have the support and faith of the communityand society.In addition wizards are physically not as strong,which does have a major impact on survivability,particularly in the levels to 10.Another factor is the pyramid shaped scarcity of wizards by level.The number of wizards of a given level is largely shaped like apyramid so that the higher the level, the less number ofwizards of that level exist so a 10th lvl wizard might existin a medium sized town but a 15th lvl wizard might onlyexist in a much larger area and likely very few of themwould exist what to say of anything beyond that.The scarcity of wizards is governed by another factor,since the wizard is a knowledge based class and aseveryone knows in the D&D world of the middle agesknowledge and learning were restricted to a few, thewizard will most likely need an aristocratic background tobe able to acquire that knowledge and learning andadvance. Not something available to most people, butonly a select few individuals of aristocratic background.Now different rule systems regard magic and spell castingmay exist, but it is not the case that a wizard isable to use all of his spells at one, and the needfor scarce use of his prepared spells in a dayfurther limits his ability to be the dominant forceall the time or even most of the time.That is why I think a good case can be madefor fighters and also the other non-magicalclasses and against over-appraisal of spell-casters which seems to be the case.</blockquote>

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