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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9329298" data-attributes="member: 3400">In the interest of honoring this question, I will post in my nerfing suggestions and why I'd like to see them:Most monsters seem to have just their stats as saves, and that makes them pretty easy targets for spells. That isn't necessarily all that bad since I don't necessarily want to start an arms race between PC save DCs and monster targets, but I think that many monsters are just too squishy in general. This gives them a bit more of a break that I think they deserve to make them a skosh more challenging and less subject to a quick, encounter-ending spell.I think a bit more stylistic division between a wizard who mixes it up in close and from a safer casting distance would be nice. It would also serve to make wands more useful like they were in 1e - giving the ability for a wizard to get a spell off while in close combat rather than extend their non-combat utility like 3e did (and where the wizard got most out of control).Otherwise, there are actually very few nerfs I'd be interested in applying to wizards. Having 2 in my high level game (well, one's a wizard, the other's actually a sorcerer - both currently 18th level), I'm not finding that other PCs (rogue, monk, fighter, ranger) fall behind them at all (with the possible exception of the ranger, but he is plagued by terrible luck no matter what dice he's rolling - physical or electronic - it's enough to make me believe in curses. When he hits things, he does good damage - but rolling above an 8 on his d20s really helps with that.).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 9329298, member: 3400"] In the interest of honoring this question, I will post in my nerfing suggestions and why I'd like to see them: Most monsters seem to have just their stats as saves, and that makes them pretty easy targets for spells. That isn't necessarily all that bad since I don't necessarily want to start an arms race between PC save DCs and monster targets, but I think that many monsters are just too squishy in general. This gives them a bit more of a break that I think they deserve to make them a skosh more challenging and less subject to a quick, encounter-ending spell. I think a bit more stylistic division between a wizard who mixes it up in close and from a safer casting distance would be nice. It would also serve to make wands more useful like they were in 1e - giving the ability for a wizard to get a spell off while in close combat rather than extend their non-combat utility like 3e did (and where the wizard got most out of control). Otherwise, there are actually very few nerfs I'd be interested in applying to wizards. Having 2 in my high level game (well, one's a wizard, the other's actually a sorcerer - both currently 18th level), I'm not finding that other PCs (rogue, monk, fighter, ranger) fall behind them [B]at all[/B] (with the possible exception of the ranger, but he is plagued by terrible luck no matter what dice he's rolling - physical or electronic - it's enough to make me believe in curses. When he hits things, he does good damage - but rolling above an 8 on his d20s really helps with that.). [/QUOTE]

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