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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6148503" data-attributes="member: 87792">Tabletop roleplaying isn't mainstream and hasn't been for decades.  Given <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/fate-core" target="_blank">that more than 10,000 people were prepared to put down an average of $40 each pre-publication</a> for a game they knew would <a href="http://www.evilhat.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=79&products_id=223" target="_blank">be available for free</a> I'm calling Fate pretty mainstream by RPG standards.  About as mainstream as an Apple as a desktop PC.  (By comparison the recent Exalted v3 Kickstarter had fewer than half that number of people backing - and Exalted was the number 2 RPG for most of the last decade).The big question is what sort of environment you're in.  In 1e the wizard had to find and scavenge spells as loot - and the loot skewed towards the fighter.  In 2e a specialist wizard could give up three schools to get (amongst other things) one spell per level - and the fighter absolutely kicked ass and took names in combat.  An extra attack every odd numbered round?  And a bonus to hit and damage?  And a near monopoly on magic swords (remember Clerics couldn't wield them).  Also in both editions the wizard went down like Jacques Cousteau if anyone actually reached them in combat.Or in other words in 1e all the wizard's narrative control powers were given out by the DM.   In 2e most of them were - and the fighter rocked hard at what they were supposed to do while the wizard could not set foot on the fighter's territory.  In both those situations the fighter doesn't need metagame powers to keep up.Agreed.I'm honestly more worried about fighter/cleric and wizard/rogue balance than I am fighter/wizard.  (Or more accurately if a wizard can duel with a fighter successfully, the game will be a wallbanger).  This is why I'm as worried as I am about things like Tightrope Walking: DC 25 in the current playtest packet.</blockquote>

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