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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 2754276" data-attributes="member: 17012">I agree with everything that has been said here so far.My own two cents:I play a fighter/paladin in a party of mostly casters (two cleric/wizards, a psion, an artificer, and a bard), and up until our last session, I was feeling a bit like the cleanup crew.  My Dex was low, my movement rate was low, so I went last and took forever to reach the enemy.  Even when I went first, the other PCs asked me to hold my action so they could blast the enemy with fireballs and scorching rays to soften them up.  Usually, by the time I actually reach the enemy, they only had a couple of hit points left; a real waste for a powerhouse melee combatant.This last session, however, something was introduced which had not been used in the campaign before - spell resistance.  We were facing a single bone devil whose SR was higher than normal due to the area we were fighting in.  Suddenly, all thoughts turned to buffing the fighter/paladin as he charged in.So spell resistance, counterspells, silence, antimagic zones, archers holding their actions to disrupt spellcasting, all of these things can make a difference in combat.  Against non-casting ranged combatants, there are plenty of spells which render ranged attacks impossible: wind wall, protection from normal missiles, obscuring mist, etc.  Even natural terrain such as a forest can prevent effective ranged attacks.</blockquote>