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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5783671" data-attributes="member: 19675">Well, it's not purely about balance or me, it's also about fluff/mechanical sim.As a kid, I played soccer in the same league as some of Germany's great players of the 1990s.  I mainly played fullback (and a bit of goalie), and I shut down my portion of the field.  Even as late as college, I was playing at a very high level of competence- high enough to be recruited for my college's team.  But I didn't live, breathe and eat the game, so I passed on it.  I turned to things like art, philosophy, and economics.Meanwhile, the guys I played against as a kid learned to do things I simply could not do.  OTOH, there are things I can do they cannot even hope to match.Similarly, the warrior and the wizard represent 2 kinds of extreme specialization, and the more you specialize in something, the more other things suffer.As the wizard learns the deeper mysteries of the arcane world, the understanding comes harder; it takes more time and effort to truly grasp what is being revealed to his mind.  While the warrior may understand a creature is vulnerable to a spear made of hawthorne, the wizard understands why, and may be able use that knowledge to find a more efficient way of killing it.And while he's poring over the tomes, the warrior is learning the finer points of combat.  He'll be mastering feints, thrusts and parries that a casually trained combatant will never see until its too late.  And that's for starters.  From there he'll learn how to shift his weight to gain leverage, head & body fakes that seem to suggest a vulnerable opening which will disappear as soon as a foe commits to strike there.  And more besides...IOW, the gap should increase in the game because the gap would increase IRL given analogous dedication to a specialized field of study.</blockquote>

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