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Message: <blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 5341467" data-attributes="member: 1325">You are assuming 1) that the sorcerer's abode was nearby... (from naked in the calling room...to the meeting hall may take more time if traditional travel methods are employed... or you could use another spell to teleport there...)2) but the sorcerer may want to have more than a few spells in reserve, "just in case". Especially if you have a proper RBDM. Because a sorcerer that has run out of spells is just a glorified peasant with a crossbow.3) Taking leadership means missing out on other feats, the sorcerer may prefer / need: metamagic feats, for instance. Especially when considering qualifying for PrC's, which many players do chase. The sorcerer does have fewer feats.4) Precisely because of the speed at which the sorcerer shore's up the defences, actually works against her: everything is perceived as being very easy for her, therefore her contribution is more likely to be taken for granted, and underappreciated. In other words, it is probably better for town morale if the sorcerer doesn't show up and slap up two/three Walls of Stone, and then disappears. 5) The town's spellcasters are probably lurking around in the sorcerer's abode, hoping to catch an eye of all that naked "Charisma". Training them will be more private (not usually done near the market place on a daily basis) and therefore less noticeable, and much more time consuming, for less public reward.6) If the spellcasters are participating in all these other activities, they are hardly doing other activities often undertaken during off-peak time: creating magical items, scribing scrolls, restocking libraries and laboratories, maintaining the same, researching new spells, and acquiring exotic spell components, negiotiating deals between Wizardly Guilds, and maintaining familial and social contacts.The spellcaster's can do all these things, but they can't do them all simultaneously, and have to prioritise. Claiming the sorcerer is powerful because of a few spell(s) that are frequently abused is, well, stating the obvious. In fact, precisely because they could do everything, implies that perhaps they should actually do what they alone can do, and let the other characters do the rest. What I'm saying is, that with proper DM involvement, there is no reason why a fighter, rogue or any other character should feel overshadowed by the spellcasters.</blockquote>

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