KanzarisKelshen posted...
From: Lopen | #042
Man you can make physical classes plenty viable in 3.5. Especially at level 15, before casters have stupid level 9 spell slots. You just have to use the right items and the right prestige classes and the right feats. It's more work relatively speaking, and requires you to think more as you play at times, but doable (and arguably more difficult to hose than a caster).
I think the discrepancy is worse if you have less control over what items you get, if you don't get enough items, or don't control your stats, because physical characters just need more stats and items than spellcasters who gain relatively less from both.
Yeah, basically this. The only thing that absolutely, positively breaks the game by default are ninth-level spells. Everything else a caster can do, I can build a fighting man who can work around it (barring Opal Gaze-level shenanigans). With proper splatting it's remarkably hard to keep a meleer down.
Uh what about Limited Wish?
And can't a wizard, like, travel to another plane and then launch attacks from it? What're you gonna do then?
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