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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5528479" data-attributes="member: 18280">Paper tends to be easier to damage than steel.However, given a humid environment, a fighter needs to worry about his metal rusting.&nbsp; And given a shipboard environment, wearing plate mail can be a bad idea indeed.Not at all.&nbsp; It's more like:This problem can arise as the result of how your playstyle interacts with the ruleset you are using.&nbsp; AFAICT and IMHO, changes made in 3e make achieving balance between warriors and wizards more difficult to achieve for some (perhaps even for many), but certainly not for all.Using scrolls, esp. in TSR-D&amp;D, is less of a problem because (1) scrolls are much harder to come by (let alone the specific scrolls you want) and (2) there is always a strategic tension between keeping said scrolls handy and keeping them safe.&nbsp; I.e., the more you do to keep your scrolls safe, the less handy they are when needed quickly.I fully accept that there are people who had problems with the warrior/magic-user divide in TSR-D&amp;D, but I would also argue that (1) these were probably a smaller percentage of groups, because (2) TSR-D&amp;D provided more tools to deal with the problem should it arise and/or prevent the problem from ever arising in the first place.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 5528479, member: 18280"] Paper tends to be easier to damage than steel. However, given a humid environment, a fighter needs to worry about his metal rusting. And given a shipboard environment, wearing plate mail can be a bad idea indeed. Not at all. It's more like: [indent]This problem can arise as the result of how your playstyle interacts with the ruleset you are using. AFAICT and IMHO, changes made in 3e make achieving balance between warriors and wizards more difficult to achieve for some (perhaps even for many), but certainly not for all.[/indent] Using scrolls, esp. in TSR-D&D, is less of a problem because (1) scrolls are much harder to come by (let alone the specific scrolls you want) and (2) there is always a strategic tension between keeping said scrolls handy and keeping them safe. I.e., the more you do to keep your scrolls safe, the less handy they are when needed quickly. I fully accept that there are people who had problems with the warrior/magic-user divide in TSR-D&D, but I would also argue that (1) these were probably a smaller percentage of groups, because (2) TSR-D&D provided more tools to deal with the problem should it arise and/or prevent the problem from ever arising in the first place. RC [/QUOTE]

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