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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7396031" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, there are a few things I did. One is I made armor into DR, which means that a fighter decked out in scale is likely to withstand a lot more punishment than a wizard in cloth! It doesn't even really take much. I think 'scale' in my system is DR4 (and you can get one more from a shield). That's a LOT, basically half damage from level 1 foes for at-will attacks. Fighters also have less outright need to use their VPs for stuff besides healing. Wizards OTOH power a lot of their more significant attacks with VP. The upshot of this is that your average wizard is going to be in trouble if he's getting chewed on. He takes full damage (DR 0) and he's either going to have to live with it and try to avoid hits, or else shut down using his most effective powers and stick with at-wills (which is OK, he can still get stuff done). You could, of course, play a 'staff wizard' type of build that sticks to short-range at-will attacks (which will do more damage, being short range blasts and such) and maybe get some DR, plus a high CON.The other consequence of this is that there are only 3 defenses (no AC). They work just like in 4e, so its quite possible to make your character 'tough' by proper allocation of ability bonuses. It isn't going to make a GIANT difference, but there are of course boons that will help (particularly neck type items, though I am not so set on the rigid slot idea). Thus you could easily have a 3 or maybe even 4 point higher defenses than the other PCs (though each of them will probably have one 'hard' defense).Now, by a more consistent approach to what types of attacks apply against which defenses, I can set things up so that the players will easily be able to decide which characters are more likely to work in which tactical situations. If you are trying to run and dodge missile fire, you need REF, and standing toe-to-toe with the big ogre, that's going to be a good job for a high FORT guy! Thus a 'melee wizard' can concentrate more on those defenses as well and there's actually not so much need for mixing in elements of other classes and whatnot. A wizard can be a decent 'gish'</blockquote>

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