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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6272792" data-attributes="member: 42582">Spies are in Gygax's DMG too. I can't remember now whether they use their own table or the assassination table for success chances.But the rules for spies (and assassins) in the DMG at least do have something of an implication that they will be resolved more granularly than casting a Divination spell - especialy if it is the PC doing it him-/herself. (Sages, in Gygax's DMG, don't have such an implication - you just roll. I like that better.)I was thinking of 4e, which balances fighters et al against casters by giving them baked-in "drama points" for combat via encounter and daily powers.That's not going to cause any headaches, I agree - it's a version of [MENTION=23935]Nagol[/MENTION]'s suggestion of having a caster as a friend/henchman.It's the purely martial solutions - searching houses, walking long distances without getting tired or killed, etc - that I think are desirable but are hard to do within the received framework of D&D tradition.</blockquote>