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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 5098531" data-attributes="member: 17969">But magic is so versatile and "wizard who casts spells" is so generic, that the situations are not comparable.Instead consider more specific archetypes like "Wizard who summons creatures", or "Rogues that can pick pockets and disarm traps like nobody's business".  Neither of these characters is going to be able to do their thing all the time--in combat, when there's scarcely a pocket to be found, the rogue will have to make do with stabbing people, and when the wizard doesn't have a beastie in his repertoire of summons to solve a particular problem, he might just have to resort to a non-summoning spell instead.  As long at the wizard pulls off impressive summons once or twice a session, and as long as the rogue gets to pull off some astounding skill monkeylizing in situations where stabbing would be uncouth, I think those players will be happy.Similarly, I think the players of mounted characters should be perfectly content to indulge in their mounted badassery only once every few combats.  And in my experience, such players are indeed satisfied with such.</blockquote>