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<blockquote data-quote="Appleseeth" data-source="post: 4593585" data-attributes="member: 72496">I've been a bit annoyed with the party's wizard lately. I've been sending them through a sizeable dungeon, with doors and every combat, he simply sits behind the door and attacks from there, while the rest of the part moves in and actually engages the enemy. I know this is part of the wizard's job, but I was wondering if I'm missing something in my encounter design that could improve upon that might get the wizard to move into the actual encounter area. Should I use more lurkers? I don't use many as it is. The entire party also has taken Improved Initiative, so the start of every combat usually goes like so:1. Wizard: blow up everyone in the room.2. Everyone in the party attacks the monsters and blocks the path to the wizard.3. Monster go.I like to go with some simulationism in my game, and some things to just make the game better. I use unrealistically large encounter areas, but not every room can have a 10-20 foot wide doorway. I also like to keep the encounters in theme, which kinda prohibits me from say, attaching say, vine horror to a gnoll encounter group.Any suggestions?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Appleseeth, post: 4593585, member: 72496"] I've been a bit annoyed with the party's wizard lately. I've been sending them through a sizeable dungeon, with doors and every combat, he simply sits behind the door and attacks from there, while the rest of the part moves in and actually engages the enemy. I know this is part of the wizard's job, but I was wondering if I'm missing something in my encounter design that could improve upon that might get the wizard to move into the actual encounter area. Should I use more lurkers? I don't use many as it is. The entire party also has taken Improved Initiative, so the start of every combat usually goes like so: 1. Wizard: blow up everyone in the room. 2. Everyone in the party attacks the monsters and blocks the path to the wizard. 3. Monster go. I like to go with some simulationism in my game, and some things to just make the game better. I use unrealistically large encounter areas, but not every room can have a 10-20 foot wide doorway. I also like to keep the encounters in theme, which kinda prohibits me from say, attaching say, vine horror to a gnoll encounter group. Any suggestions? [/QUOTE]

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