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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 497987" data-attributes="member: 6875">This begs the question: why are the melee twinks wearing mithril chain shirts ... ?  A mithril breastplate, or elven chainmail, or better, full plate armor (mithril or not) would be superior.Mithril Shirt gives +4 AC, and lots of room for dexterity modifiers; the melee "twinks" must not be well TWINKED, if they're relying on Dex-bonus-to-AC at all!!  Full plate, with no extras, is already +5AC  more ... with a 1-point Max Dex Bonus.  That's +10 AC at the highest, so just to TIE that, the Mithril Shirt would have to be worn by someone with a 22 or higher dexterity ... a melee twink should really be pushing for strength, not dexterity!No, a team of specialists is foundational to the genre.  Most, if not all, stories have various characters who each have some special talent, knack, skill, or so on.  You have the great archer, the strength-oriented fighter, the skill-based fighter, the wizard, the healer, the scout, and so on.  These are archetypes for more than just simplicity of game mechanics; they are archetypes because the stories on which fantasy RPGs are based, use them ... and HAVE used them for longer than the written word has existed!Not in the heroic fantasy I ever read.  In the heroic fantasy books I've read, the heroes are usually outnumbered at least two to one by hordes of enemies; the melee fighters' job is to provide an impenetrable "line of death" that the enemy cannot get across, while the ranged fighters (archers, spellcasters, slingers, desperate damsels-in-distress throwing rocks, whatever) thin out the numbers those melee fighters have to face.I still say the problems in your campaign are problems of GM tactics, in regards to the tactics of the encountered foes.  And a BADLY twinked pair of melee specialists trying to compete with WELL twinked ranged specialists only compounds that.</blockquote>

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