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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dioltach" data-source="post: 5489458" data-attributes="member: 21843">And getting back on topic, instead of endlessly arguing whether or not PCs are better than normal people or not (which might be better discussed in a thread of its own) ...I agree with JoeGK, a lot of heroes are a mix of fighter and wizard (or thief and wizard). Sometimes, though, the wizardly abilities are acquired through items. So this might be another way to look at this discussion: do a fighter's abilities (martial and item-based magical powers) put him on an equal level with a wizard, whose abilities, let's not forget, are also sometimes item-based?In The Rose of the Prophet by Weiss & Hickman, for example, the main protagonist is a wizard. In that setting, however, wizards can only use magic if channelled through scrolls, wands and other items. This makes the protagonist substantially weaker than most other characters in the books most of the time.Gandalf has Glamdring and his Elven Ring, Ged has his staff, Harry Dresden uses a range of paraphernelia. Essentially, many fantasy characters draw their powers from items. It's simply that fighter types have other options and their magical powers tend to have a different focus then those of wizard characters.</blockquote>