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<blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 682733" data-attributes="member: 1225">FWIW, one anecdotal perspective...Yes, though sometimes the bludgeoning weapon was their shield. Absolutely. Every character carries a melee and a ranged weapon, and has since level 1. No. But they all seem to try to have levitate, spider climb, fly, or the like. One party chipped in and bought the sorcerer a wand of spider climb; I expect they'd commission a wand of fly, if they had the money and felt the need (e.g., lots of flying opponents with ranged attacks in outdoor encounters). Of course, fly potions might yet become ubiquitous. No, though many of them do have that or a potion of swimming. OTOH, only one group has really had to deal with unexpected and unavoidable swim-or-die situations. The other groups have been able to rely on clerics with time to prepare water breathing, and/or having time to strip off armor (and sometimes get mage armor from an arcanist).No. They all got magic weapons, so they don't need silver weapons. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Even so, though, I do recall seeing a lot of silver daggers and silver arrows/bolts on character sheets.Note that the above answers are to the best of my recollection, and may be off (for example, I'm not positive the half-orc barbarian/fighter replaced his mace after being shipwrecked; he may be depending on doing ludicrous amounts of raw damage to carry him through battles with skeletons).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="coyote6, post: 682733, member: 1225"] FWIW, one anecdotal perspective... Yes, though sometimes the bludgeoning weapon was their shield. Absolutely. Every [i]character[/i] carries a melee and a ranged weapon, and has since level 1. No. But they all seem to try to have [i]levitate[/i], [i]spider climb[/i], [i]fly[/i], or the like. One party chipped in and bought the sorcerer a [i]wand of spider climb[/i]; I expect they'd commission a [i]wand of fly[/i], if they had the money and felt the need (e.g., lots of flying opponents with ranged attacks in outdoor encounters). Of course, [i]fly[/i] potions might yet become ubiquitous. No, though many of them do have that or a [i]potion of swimming[/i]. OTOH, only one group has really had to deal with unexpected and unavoidable swim-or-die situations. The other groups have been able to rely on clerics with time to prepare [i]water breathing[/i], and/or having time to strip off armor (and sometimes get [i]mage armor[/i] from an arcanist). No. They all got magic weapons, so they don't need silver weapons. :) Even so, though, I do recall seeing a lot of silver daggers and silver arrows/bolts on character sheets. Note that the above answers are to the best of my recollection, and may be off (for example, I'm not positive the half-orc barbarian/fighter replaced his mace after being shipwrecked; he may be depending on doing ludicrous amounts of raw damage to carry him through battles with skeletons). [/QUOTE]

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