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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5536154" data-attributes="member: 54877">Well, it is not as if the wizard (or cleric or druid) dominance exists in a vacuum.  The rules complexity and other factors can certainly factor into who and when it bothers.   Looking back on it, I think the problem for our group was that it was a gradually worsening problem.  If it had been more sudden, we would have been more aware of it at the time, and either fixed it (metagame) or simply stopped.  For us, the wizard dominance started around 7th, but it wasn't a huge problem until sometime around 11th or 12th.  Also, it is rather a challenge for the DM and players to manage this.  Challenges can be fun.  This one was for awhile.  But as it gradually became more of a challenge, it began to dominate the focus of play, to the exclusion of other things. Finally, we don't usually have these kind of issues with our games, because we will quite happily switch campaigns or systems.  But we ran into the circumstance where the players had voted to experience higher level play--explicity.  So I felt obligated to keep trying in the face of the disintegrating play experience.  And I suppose one could say that having muddled through as we did, we are better positioned to try again, but we look at it, and it simply isn't worth it.  Even before the launch of 4E, we had already decided that any future higher level play would either be D&D RC or Fantasy Hero. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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