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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5711173" data-attributes="member: 9037">I have noticed a big difference between what I see in my gaming real life community and what I see on the internet.  For example in my 30 some years of gaming with groups and conventions I have never once met a Drizzit clone. I have seen some drow characters but not the type I read about in forums.I have also met some fans of Forgotten Realms who read all the books and know all the little things about the world I have played with them but I never seen them derail a game or get pissy if the DM changes things. I have never really talked to or played with anyone who feels that magic users are so over powered that they stomp and suck the fun out of the game for everyone else. Usually the complaints about magic are that is hard to play a low magic game with the RAW. About the only thing I have seen is the idea that fighters suck a lot when it comes to having anything to do outside of combat and some people find them a bore to play.I am not saying that any of those things are not true for other groups and players just that I have not encountered them. I also think that when things happen in a group a person starts thinking that it happens a lot and that every group has these issues and if you don't well you must not be playing by the RAW. My roommate is an avid gamer but she rarely reads the boards because they drive her crazy. One of her pet peeves is magic debates where someone uses a scenario to try and prove a point. Like the wizard is 11 level and has these spells and these magic items and the fighter has these feats and weapons and so that proves that the wizard is going to win every time. And that is why magic is over powered. She is always saying that it is all just theoretical and does not really represent what happens in actual play with dice, players and the GM. That there are to many variables involved. I kind of agree.Her favorite class is the monk and she has never found it unplayable or weak yet on gaming boards she was being told she was wrong. In her experience playing one and playing with others who play them this has not been her experience .</blockquote>

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