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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 6829567" data-attributes="member: 53980">I disagree with your conclusion. I've played a wizard in 5e and there were definitely scenes that I owned (full disclosure - I dipped one level of cleric for Heavy Armor).In one encounter we were facing an entire hive of Giant Wasps that could turn people into zombie slaves with their poison. About 50 wasps came at us in waves over the course of several rounds. I simply waited for them to group up and threw a few fireballs at them. The rest of the party cleaned up the handful of critically injured wasps that survived, and just like that an encounter that had a high chance of TPK (IMO) was a cakewalk.In another encounter, we were ambushed by several stone giants while traveling through a chasm. The giants were up at the top of the cliff walls, and most of the party was better at melee than range. I first Shattered the cliff under one of the giant's feet to give our melee something to beat on. Then I occupied another giant with Tasha's Hideous Laughter. After this, the giants decided to focus on me so I lead them on a merry chase using teleporation spells and Shield to make them waste their time trying to attack at me. Finally, one of our melee was dangerously low on health, so I polymorphed him into a Giant Ape which allowed him to finish the fight very effectively.In both those fights, if I'd been playing another fighter (or some such) we would have most probably TPK'd. It's fair to say that there's more scene sharing in 5e than AD&D, but that isn't to say that you can't still have your moments in the spotlight.</blockquote>

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