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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WarlockLord" data-source="post: 5974638" data-attributes="member: 40098">So that puts the fighter squarely back into the wizard lackey corner.  If he cannot meaningfully engage flying foes on his own without the aid of a wizard, there's really no reason to bring him along when you could cast the fly spell on the wizards and clerics who can actually do things?  And the "fly item" goes back to the 3.5 Christmas Tree syndrome people hated where warriors needed to be blinged out in magic crap to do their job, while the wizard,cleric, and druid could give all their loot to the fighter and pick up the slack with their spells.  Yes, you can make everyone groundbound and spout about archery and ranged spells, but the balor and the dragon have superhuman intelligence.  It's really not hard for them to figure out that if they fly out of arrow range and drop giant rocks that they can attack the party with complete impunity.As for your complaining about "fighters having abilities without fail..." well, wizards, clerics, and monsters have all had these kinds of abilities for a while.  Is it too much to ask for the fighter class to step up to the plate for once?Lastly, for your insightful observation of how the DM should fix things rather than claim mechanics are broken, I present <a href="http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19550770/DO_NOT_TRIM:_Dictionary_of_Terminology" target="_blank">the Oberoni fallacy.</a>  Because the DM can change the rules doesn't mean they aren't broken.</blockquote>

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