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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ultimatecalibur" data-source="post: 5501411" data-attributes="member: 59539">That's a bit wrong. Using some mostly 4e terms: Neo, Trinity and Morpheus started out in the Heroic power tier. The Agents were Paragon tier. After the Lobby battle, in the fight on the roof Neo was also Paragon. In the final confrontation with Smith and the other agents Neo entered the Epic power tier.Nope. Narrative only says that the protagonist overcomes the antagonist unless narrative conventions are being subverted. If an overwhelmingly powerful warrior was the antagonist facing a lowly wizard protagonist, narrative conventions would have the wizard win in the end. The computer game Zork: Grand Inquisitor is a good example of this.Each of these have problems and are not really answers. The problem with this is that by giving warriors control over the narrative of the campaign you effectively makes players playing warriors sub-GMs.Restricting what types of magic are available does not change anything. What is important is how powerful magic is. If a wizard can charm a thousand men at a time and can do so 10 times a day and a warrior can only cut trough 100 men in an hour, its not balanced.  This doesn't really help either. If the weakness is in play: warrior eats wizard and wizard player is not happy. If the weakness is not in play: wizard eats warrior and warrior player isn't happy.Having "magic" and "not having magic" isn't the problem. Its in the balance of power. If a wizard can blow up 5 guys once an encounter and a warrior can carve through 1 guy a round at will then if an encounter last ~5 rounds things are balanced. If a wizard can blow up only 2 guys a round once per encounter and a warrior can carve through 1 guy a round at will and encounters last ~5 rounds then its imbalanced in the warrior's favor.It basically comes down to the two having roughly equal in power. If a wizard can create demiplanes then warriors should be able to cut mountains in half with their ability alone.</blockquote>

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