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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 50991" data-attributes="member: 2480">Who IS the Wizard?I guess then it comes down to examining the game you play, Bystander. whilst it might be true that the Wizard is the most dangerous element in a party, that requires discipline to ignore the 300 pounds of metal-armoured flesh about to pound you into oblivion. If every tribe of goblins applies military tactics to every combat then of course the Wizard seems like dead meat long before he even has a sniff of 2nd level! Heck, you've even pointed out yourself that the low-level Wizard soon 'wears out' in terms of spells; he may not be your biggest worry, after all!I will add to that that the Wizard doesn't have to be the obvious spellcaster. At first level he has what? A spell component pouch and very little armour? The rogues might well look the same. In other words they might not even be able to spot the Wizard amidst the rag-tag bunch that is a party of PCs! He's in fact an archer, with a crossbow, or maybe he's at the back helping with the fallen.I guess I am saying that cutting them some slack actually makes a lot of sense when they are lower level, because they don't necessarily look like a 'classic' wizard (iconics excepted, of course!). The alternative is, as you have described, a dearth of people willing to play a Wizard or Sorcerer - they might just as well be playing characters who run around naked with targets painted over their hearts, if they are going to be specifically threatened from day 1!</blockquote>

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