The wizard is powerful because his slope of vertical increase in background scrolling is faster than any other class right? Note that these posts are missing some small amount of context from folks in the other thread asking me for clarifications. Spent the whole fight sitting in said lawn chair, drinking martinis and occasionally hitting his 'no' button until the balor showed up. Wizard used a scroll of delayed Gate, a protection from evil and the spell to conjure his lawn chair into his bag of holding during this time. Party opted for three rounds of 'buff time'. Hexblade 27: 'It's magic AND melee, man! You can't beat that!' Except the balor did, to the merry tune of the mage drinking martinis.Ĭompwar Ex-Samurai 17/Ronin 10: 'Class flavor and mechanics aren't separate, man! If you wanna be a samurai you should just play one!' Sadly found that even the fighter did better. Called several animals to the battlefield (that couldn't penetrate the wardings) before being taken out by the summoned balor. Fairly competent, was tragically killed by a summoned balor.īard 27: Tried being a buffamancer, got taken out by a warding that turned him to stone when he tried to charge the wizard.Ĭleric 27: Priest of Elhonna, memorized healing spells and summons. Swordsage 20/Master of Nine 5/Rogue 2: Focused on Shadow Hand and Diamond Mind, fought with a greatsword. Didn't understand why blasting is sub-optimal. Wizard 27 (Kratos): Evocation specialist, banned conjuration and abjuration. Espoused that fighters are versatile due to their many feats. Smacked into a violet warding and failed his save, resulting in his transportation to Avernus.įighter 17/Kensai 10 (The Duke of Truth and Loss): TWF, convinced his sheer number of attacks > any enemy. Convinced that Monks were powerful caster-killers due to all-good saves and spell resistance. Monk 27 (The Inscrutable Master Girard): Built for kama use. The wizard spent every single standard action he had for the fight drinking martinis. They fought a 17th level (20th level experience, crafted three levels away) wizard/initiate of the sevenfold veil.

I had my player start at level 27 once, in an effort to visibly demonstrate the tier system to them. In the spoiler below is the saga of The Martini Wizard, and how my players finally learned to believe me about the power levels of Wizards and their place on the Tier System: Lord_Gareth posted: Incidentally, my group kinda has a thing for demonstrating points about class balance and/or power through arenas.

3.5 initiate of the sevenfold veil