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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 3810122" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>Oh, as the person who brought up the &quot;wizard attacks platemailed knight&quot; element (before the wizard became 20th level, naked, and weaponless) I wanted to emphasize the &quot;wizard out of spells fires his crossbow&quot; element of low-level D&amp;D. The wizard, even at low levels, has a chance to attack the knight and roll a 20, doing damage. The original point was that since the chance of hitting is sooo low (5%) that its hard to hit the knight, would ANY DM be so crass as to say &quot;Sorry Bob, you cannot hit the knight with that crossbow since you're too feeble to do so.&quot; The quote I was referring to discussed how some &quot;non-combat&quot; abilities should be flatly denied by the DM. I was asking the question &quot;So, with that mindset, why not disallow combat elements as well?&quot; Stupid barbarians always fail will saves, feeble wizards cannot ever hit a man in platemail, clumsy clerics in half-plate automatically fail reflex saves, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 3810122, member: 7635"] Oh, as the person who brought up the "wizard attacks platemailed knight" element (before the wizard became 20th level, naked, and weaponless) I wanted to emphasize the "wizard out of spells fires his crossbow" element of low-level D&D. The wizard, even at low levels, has a chance to attack the knight and roll a 20, doing damage. The original point was that since the chance of hitting is sooo low (5%) that its hard to hit the knight, would ANY DM be so crass as to say "Sorry Bob, you cannot hit the knight with that crossbow since you're too feeble to do so." The quote I was referring to discussed how some "non-combat" abilities should be flatly denied by the DM. I was asking the question "So, with that mindset, why not disallow combat elements as well?" Stupid barbarians always fail will saves, feeble wizards cannot ever hit a man in platemail, clumsy clerics in half-plate automatically fail reflex saves, etc. [/QUOTE]

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