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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 7157064" data-attributes="member: 58416">I'd be open to hearing how you've handled certain things over the years.  With those success rates over that length of time, it sounds as though I could learn how to improve what I'm doing.I remember being in 3.5 games in which the guy playing the wizard would intentionally not do anything during the first round of combat; he'd do so as a courtesy to the rest of us so that other people would get a chance to play the game.  Outside of combat?  The same character easily handled problems in other pillars as well.  I also remember my first 4th Edition campaign.  I played an Orb Wizard.  Being new to the edition, I wasn't aware of how ridiculously good my character would be (prior to errata which changed the class).  Starting at level 1, I could cast Sleep and make it unlikely that the targets would ever wake up.  Not many levels after that, I could literally make it impossible for my targets to ever save against what I was casting.  I actually stopped playing the character because it was so ridiculously broken that it wasn't even fun for me to play.  I know not everyone is familiar with 4th, so I'll explain the basic idea behind why it was broken.  In 4th, saving against something was a d20 roll and getting above a 10.  The orb wizard had an ability which gave penalties to that roll.  It was easily possible (without putting in a lot of effort) to make those penalties bad enough that the target would never save.  Combined with something like Sleep, it was possible to make everything in an encounter become Unconscious/Helpless without any chance of waking up.  If you really wanted to make things ridiculous, there was an item called Orb of Ultimate Imposition.  It gave you the ability to decide that -if you actually missed with the initial attack or somehow a creature miraculously did save- a target took the effect of a power regardless of hitting.  So, in theory, after around level 12 or so (and maybe sooner) my character could have fought some of the gods and demon lords (who were near level 30 or beyond) and had a somewhat reasonable chance of winning.  "Oh?  I missed my attack against Orcus?  Well, I've decided he needs to save against my power anyway, and he has penalties out the wahzoo to the save.  Errata later changed how the orb wizard worked, but I feel that how it was right out of the PHB1 is an example of what I'd consider to be broken. In 5th Edition, there isn't anything I'd consider to be broken in that context.  However, there are some options which I feel are significantly stronger than others and stronger in multiple pillars of play.</blockquote>

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