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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ratskinner" data-source="post: 5988655" data-attributes="member: 6688937">Combined with dungeons and caverns that rarely include more than a 20ft straight line, your meager light sources are useless...and whenever you do enter an open area or large cavern, your light sources are conveniently not powerful enough to do anything but illuminate you clearly for the dozens of goblin archers that selectively target anyone wearing a robe.Keep in mind, I just said it was a favorite trick, not the only trick. There's plenty more: like never ever running into an enemy wizard who has his spellbook on him (or anywhere, for that matter). Never ever run into monsters that are anything but piles of hp, a weapon, and infravision. Treasure....just keep out all those useless scrolls and wands etc., only put in those that directly benefit the heavies when used. Perhaps most importantly, end all campaigns before 7th level, preferably before 5th.   And remember we're talking about a DM who uses his adjudicative powers to rule heavily in favor of some classes, but not others. So the wizard can't see well enough to target his spell, but the fighter wearing a heavy helm gets no penalty for fighting the same critter. I've even witnessed a wizard being told that he couldn't see past the torchbearer because the flame would blind his vision (possibly accurate, but unique to that DM, IME.) The Ogre just around the corner can be attacked by the fighter, but not targeted by Magic Missile. Even when the mage isn't shut down completely, "Magic is dangerous" so just about every spell that isn't Cure X Wounds has loads of creative unintended consequences. I've only had two such DMs, ever, but one of them came right out and told me that "The first best purpose of a wizard is to stand in the back and chuck flaming oil. Truth be told, that's not even enough, because a cleric can do that and at least heal." (I played a thief in his game, and it wasn't a whole lot better for me, either.) I dunno for sure, but I suspect both of them stayed Old-School. 3e's fairly explicit rules about cover and the like probably didn't sit well with them. (Come to think about it, both were playing "1e" well into the 2e era, so...)Again, I've had it go the other way far more often, although maybe not to the depth that some LFQW warriors seem to experience. However, I think the propensity to favor casters (at least until 3e) is a combination of culture and rules, not strictly a rules question.<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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