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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9161310" data-attributes="member: 86653">As long as you force 6-8 encounters per day all against solo monsters then it will be fine. That's a huge constraint that most referees do not conform to, hence why so many people have a problem with the balance of 5E. Because they don't play the way the game was designed. If you only have one encounter per day, it's effectively meaningless and casters will nova, aka 5MWD. If you have multiple monsters per encounter the casters will utterly dominate with their AoE spells. And unless you have those 6-8 encounters per day the casters will be sitting on a pile of spell slots that they can use to trample all over the other class's role or niche. Why bother with stealth when the wizard can cast invisibility? Why bother with persuasion when the wizard can charm?D&amp;D needs to bring back niche protection. And the do everything casters need to be reined in.ETA: Part of the problem is the typical response. “Well, the X class can do it all day and the wizard can’t.” While yes, that’s very true, it also utterly fails at understanding the problem. There is no situation where the non-caster will ever have to “do it all day.” You will never have the all-day sneak or the all-day charm or the all-day combat. You’ll only ever have small, self-contained snippets of situations where those things are relevant. So the caster can drop a spell and be done with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9161310, member: 86653"] As long as you force 6-8 encounters per day all against solo monsters then it will be fine. That's a huge constraint that most referees do not conform to, hence why so many people have a problem with the balance of 5E. Because they don't play the way the game was designed. If you only have one encounter per day, it's effectively meaningless and casters will nova, aka 5MWD. If you have multiple monsters per encounter the casters will utterly dominate with their AoE spells. And unless you have those 6-8 encounters per day the casters will be sitting on a pile of spell slots that they can use to trample all over the other class's role or niche. Why bother with stealth when the wizard can cast invisibility? Why bother with persuasion when the wizard can charm? D&D needs to bring back niche protection. And the do everything casters need to be reined in. ETA: Part of the problem is the typical response. “Well, the X class can do it all day and the wizard can’t.” While yes, that’s very true, it also utterly fails at understanding the problem. [I][B]There is no situation where the non-caster will ever have to “do it all day.”[/B][/I] You will never have the all-day sneak or the all-day charm or the all-day combat. You’ll only ever have small, self-contained snippets of situations where those things are relevant. So the caster can drop a spell and be done with it. [/QUOTE]

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