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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8197741" data-attributes="member: 93670">It depends on how "highly restricted" you are goingCasters other than warlock suffer, wizards especially.  After martials get +2 or +2 equivalent weapons they go from having more hp & generally better defense with roughly equal or better damage to  dealing more damage This is largely because +x mods & +str/+dex is multiplied for each attack & resistant to nonmagical b/p/s has zero effect while +X wands rarely if ever multiply while +int/+wis/+cha is rarely a thing like with weapons.  All of that gets topped off by energy or magic resist/immune is so overused it might as well be standard after a certain point.  Wizards have the extra hurdle of needing to find spell books/spell scrolls & have enough gold to scribe spells which will be difficult if they can't find enough of one or both.  The costs of even a moderate amount of spell scribing are significant enough that martials are soon likely to find a magic weapon affordable if gold is being split even.Martials will be on similar footing to casters other than warlock if they do not have any magic weapons, but even a +0 magic weapon will bypass resistant to nonmagic b/p/s letting them pull even or slightly ahead depending on how nice it is.edit: warlock of course has the benefits of both and drawbacks of neither putting it close to invoking <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DungeonmastersGirlfriend" target="_blank">this</a></blockquote>

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