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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 1165734" data-attributes="member: 2011">To each their own.Personally, I would not put the cowardly label on any PC Wizard, even if the player is playing him that way. I would call him prudent.The reason is that it is a real live human being with real feelings and emotions behind that Wizard. If that player is enjoying the game that way, that's totally fine. A DM shouldn't do anything like make fun of the Wizard or give him less experience or whatever, just because the player wants the Wizard to survive long enough to become powerful.I once ran a "non-cowardly Wizard". He was a Dwarven Illusionist and he was more of a fighter than an illusionist because he had many defensive spells. He did quite well for the first 3+ levels. At level 4, we were on a mission where we came to this large (500+ foot) clearing with trees on both ends. At the other end was a band of Orcs, determined to stop us. We did not have horses at the time and the distance was too great to hit the Orcs with arrows or bolts due to cover and concealment, so we eventually decided to rush them.My dwarf had Mirror Image, Shield, Mage Armor, and Expeditious Retreat up and since I was the fastest, I ran to engage them so that they would not shoot arrows at my allies. As it turned out, I got into the midst of them and was doing quite well fighting them all by myself when the Orc Shaman behind them cast Dispel Magic, got lucky, and wiped out all of my spells. Needless to say, I didn't last a round after that.So, who am I to call a Wizard PC cowardly, especially those prudent PCs that managed to get past 4th level whereas my gung ho Wizard died.Food for thought. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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