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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7392905" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Ahhh...&quot;this old&nbsp; chestnut&quot;. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'll keep it very short. I promise!With regard to the whole LFQW thing...huh...mmm...hmmm....nope. Never encountered it in all my nigh-40 years of play with ONE exception: 3.5e. That game was borked beyond all recognition unless the DM knew and owned EVERYTHING for it or had fetish for saying &quot;No&quot;.But B/X, BECMI, 1e, 2e, Hackmaster, and now 5e? Nope, glad to say it is and never was a &quot;thing&quot; in any game I played in (and my highest level character is a Grey Elf Magic-User of level 20 from 1st Edition AD&amp;D!). The problem is that some people are looking for a problem, so they only equate &quot;level to level&quot; and &quot;one combat at a time only&quot; with a light covering of &quot;and perfect knowledge of the time before and after said combat&quot;. IMNSHO, it was never about &quot;a level to level&quot; thing. The potential and perceived &quot;power level&quot; of a character was/is determined on a CAMPAIGN LENGTH BASIS.In short:&quot;A Casters true balance is measured over the course of months and years of play. Not over the course of a single combat&quot;.If someone wants to write up a nice novel of one of their 4 or 5 year D&amp;D campaign that covers the PC's going from 1st to 20th level...then I might change my mind. Until then....I have to stand by my experience of playing &quot;D&amp;D&quot; for the last 38+ years. Which is to say, no, there is no real power dependency between Fighter and Magic-User when viewed through the lens it should; a multi-year campaign.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 7392905, member: 45197"] Hiya! Ahhh..."this old chestnut". ;) I'll keep it very short. I promise! With regard to the whole LFQW thing...huh...mmm...hmmm....nope. Never encountered it in all my nigh-40 years of play with ONE exception: 3.5e. That game was borked beyond all recognition unless the DM knew and owned EVERYTHING for it or had fetish for saying "No". But B/X, BECMI, 1e, 2e, Hackmaster, and now 5e? Nope, glad to say it is and never was a "thing" in any game I played in (and my highest level character is a Grey Elf Magic-User of level 20 from 1st Edition AD&D!). The problem is that some people are looking for a problem, so they only equate "level to level" and "one combat at a time only" with a light covering of "and perfect knowledge of the time before and after said combat". IMNSHO, it was [I]never[/I] about "a level to level" thing. The potential and perceived "power level" of a character was/is determined on a CAMPAIGN LENGTH BASIS. In short: [I]"A Casters true balance is measured over the course of months and years of play. Not over the course of a single combat".[/I] If someone wants to write up a nice novel of one of their 4 or 5 year D&D campaign that covers the PC's going from 1st to 20th level...then I might change my mind. Until then....I have to stand by my experience of playing "D&D" for the last 38+ years. Which is to say, no, there is no real power dependency between Fighter and Magic-User when viewed through the lens it should; a multi-year campaign. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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