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<blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 2231637" data-attributes="member: 5890">I don't think it's about denying the wizard. I think it's about making the player of the high-hit dice class (which is inevitably supposed to be a front-line fighter and therefore capable of taking the hits) useless. ALL a barbarian can really do is take hits. If he consistantly rolls 1s and 2s, then he's liable to end up not being able to do that.He could end up at 10th level with only 58 hitpoints. That's 2 hits before he's dead, and surviving is the main draw of the class.It's like if you made a wizard somehow roll for whether he could do his next level of casting. &quot;when you gain a new level of available spells, you must make a check with your casting stat vs a DC of 15&quot;.Usually he'll make it. But occasionally he won't. If he gets unlucky, he could potentially be a 10th level wizard with only 1st level spell available. Are you saying that character would be fun to play? Or would you just scrap him and start with something else?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saeviomagy, post: 2231637, member: 5890"] I don't think it's about denying the wizard. I think it's about making the player of the high-hit dice class (which is inevitably supposed to be a front-line fighter and therefore capable of taking the hits) useless. ALL a barbarian can really do is take hits. If he consistantly rolls 1s and 2s, then he's liable to end up not being able to do that.He could end up at 10th level with only 58 hitpoints. That's 2 hits before he's dead, and surviving is the main draw of the class. It's like if you made a wizard somehow roll for whether he could do his next level of casting. "when you gain a new level of available spells, you must make a check with your casting stat vs a DC of 15". Usually he'll make it. But occasionally he won't. If he gets unlucky, he could potentially be a 10th level wizard with only 1st level spell available. Are you saying that character would be fun to play? Or would you just scrap him and start with something else? [/QUOTE]

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