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<blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 5522841" data-attributes="member: 11300">I think there's a spectrum here that is not as black and white as you present. What's wrong with the middle ground? What's wrong with a mix of encounters that provide challenges as well as time to shine, as well as times for the entire team to have a field day? I thought this was DMing 101? Know your PCs strengths and weaknesses and look for the things in different encounters that emphasize both.Re: Color Spray - yes it is occasionally a highly effective spell. That is useless against mindless opponents or opponents immune to mind-affecting effects, that requires the wizard to get within proximity of their targets (thus being useless at range), is difficult to cast when your allies are in the range of the spell, is a spell and thus with a readied action a wizard's casting can be interrupted (pertinent here due to the range of the spell), and as a 1st level spell will have a lower DC anyway. There's enough here that it should not be difficult to get the wizard to choose alternative spell tactics without needing to spam color spray as a solution to everything. Occasionally it is really effective, other times less so. Let it work sometimes and challenge it at others. There are bigger fish to fry in my opinion re: wizard versus fighter in 3e.Best RegardsHerremann the Wise</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herremann the Wise, post: 5522841, member: 11300"] I think there's a spectrum here that is not as black and white as you present. What's wrong with the middle ground? What's wrong with a mix of encounters that provide challenges as well as time to shine, as well as times for the entire team to have a field day? I thought this was DMing 101? Know your PCs strengths and weaknesses and look for the things in different encounters that emphasize both. Re: Color Spray - yes it is occasionally a highly effective spell. That is useless against mindless opponents or opponents immune to mind-affecting effects, that requires the wizard to get within proximity of their targets (thus being useless at range), is difficult to cast when your allies are in the range of the spell, is a spell and thus with a readied action a wizard's casting can be interrupted (pertinent here due to the range of the spell), and as a 1st level spell will have a lower DC anyway. There's enough here that it should not be difficult to get the wizard to choose alternative spell tactics without needing to spam color spray as a solution to everything. Occasionally it is really effective, other times less so. Let it work sometimes and challenge it at others. There are bigger fish to fry in my opinion re: wizard versus fighter in 3e. Best Regards Herremann the Wise [/QUOTE]

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