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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3558548" data-attributes="member: 13966">Not so much.  Should a 17th-level Wizard be considered balanced with having 1 Wish/Gate/Meteor Swarm/Wail of the Banshee/Power Word Kill/Summon Monster IX per encounter, and as such 4 such spells per day when multiplying that to account for a typical adventuring day?  Whereas a normal 17th-level Wizard actually only has maybe 1, 2, or at best (assuming obscene Int and school specialization) 3 such spells per day?And really, getting in 1 PWK or similar in every encounter would probably, in and of itself, overshadow the warriors pretty badly, unless the encounters were rather long and drawn out.  And then what about the 20th-level Wizard's allotment of 9th-level awesomeness per encounter/per day?  I think Meteor Swarm kicks Strike of Perfect Clarity's butt, don't it?Going with purely/primarily encounter-based balancing would either diminish the power or amount of cool for mages (who actually give up physical power and survivability) by weakening their spells, or overpower them by maintaining the same level of power but with inifnite reuseability each day.Possible example: High-level evil wizard flies over a town, casts Time Stop, then releases several Delayed Blast Fireballs or similar.  TS ends, and he flies back out of the town, massive explosions blooming behind him after a few seconds.  Wizard flies off to rest a few minutes, recouping his arcane energies.  Then flies back and does it again, and again, and again.  Town is a smoking heap of rubble one hour later, and high-level wizard continues his rampage until someone similarly high-level finds him and stops him, despite the wizard's access to mucho Teleportation magic, especially on an encounter-based mechanic.In normal D&D, any wizard who tries such a thing will run out of real nasty explosions after the first big town or two that he obliterates, and will run low on teleports shortly afterward when escaping pursuers.  Then he gets scry-buff-teleport-killed after he's used up most of his best mojo, assuming nobody managed to stop him earlier, since he'd have limited battle magic to bring to bear.Also, how would you balance healing magic this way?  If it's per encounter, the healers would probably be able to fully heal the group after every battle, and the group would be unstoppable.  That doesn't really create any dramatic tension, either.</blockquote>

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