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Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Discussion / Re: Are AD&D magic users implausibly weak?
« Last post by Ratman_tf on Today at 08:00:31 AM »Yes and no. If you use the modern 4 person adventuring party, one is probably going to be useless except for that one fight where he uses sleep.
But back in the day if you had 6 to 12 people in the party, he could hide in the back throwing darts or whatnot until sleep was needed.
This was my experience as well. A clutch sleep or charm person was the main contribution. The secondary contribution was as a pack mule.
Our usual approach was for a wizard to find* a wand of magic missiles pretty early in their career, and give them something to do/use when their big spells would be wasted.
*GM discretion when placing treasure.