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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scadgrad" data-source="post: 241027" data-attributes="member: 766">Does anyone play Mages or Sorcerers?Well here's one DM w/ 24 years of experience that thinks this is just bunk.  Your DM is just being obstinate.Assuming a 1st level Fighter w/ Chain Shirt & Long Sword starts combat beside the unlucky 1st level Wizard.  The Fighter wins initiative & most likely slays the Wizard outright (probably hitting on a '7' or so) before the 1st Level Wiz even gets a chance.Assuming the 1st level Wiz wins initiative he could move off 30' or so and cast Sleep & totally neutralizes the Fighter.So, it really depends on who wins intitiative (thus making Improved Initiative almost a requirement...or so it seems in my games) & thus balances the two classes.It's really that simple.This notion of I'm standing 5' away from you in Tank Armor with a Long Sword so you can't cast any spells at me is just ludicrous.  Why should you be all but immune to spellcasting just because you're standing beside the guy & have a melee weapon?Your DM seems to think that the mere fact that some brute waving a sword in front of you should be able to prevent you from doing anything other than dying.  His notion of 'disrupting a spell' is locked in 1E & 2E logic.  3E does not work that way & his house rule seems to seriously cripple the effectivness of spellcasting.  Why he fails to see the tradeoff for wearing Med to Hvy armor rather than Light armor (in terms of Readied Actions) totally escapes me .Surely no one in your group is masochistic enough to actually play a Wizard or Sorcerer are they?   I'd wager your chances of making it past 1st or 2nd level are pretty damn slim.  But if he wants his world to be similar to 'Conan World'  or whatever, I guess it makes perfect sense.  Still that's a campaign rule & not an adjustment to some perceived flaw in the Core Rules.To each his own I guess...</blockquote>

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