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Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Discussion / Re: Are AD&D magic users implausibly weak?
« Last post by yosemitemike on Today at 05:08:36 AM »It seems like you're picturing an adventuring party like a SEAL team --
We don't have to wonder what he was picturing. He said it straight out several times and it was not an elite Special Operations team. It was a normal rifleman aka everyone in the Marine Corps. Pretending that he is talking about an adventuring group that's like a SEAL team when he clearly said what he was talking about is highly disingenuous.
As someone else has already pointed out, there is a very large excluded middle ground between people who would be an active liability because they can't walk on one hand and super elite soldiers on the other. This middle ground is where the large majority of D&D characters are. The wizard isn't as physically capable as the barbarian but he can still keep up or he wouldn't be there. Going from one extreme directly to the opposite extreme is highly disingenuous.
I suspect that this entire topic was started in bad faith. I think you are trying to get someone to say something that you can then use to justify wheelchair bound characters going adventuring. You are fishing for a gotcha in an argument in another thread. Something like this
People would bring physically incapable wizards because they bring other utility.
Oh yeah well a character wheelchair bound character can also bring other utility. Touche bigot.
People just aren't playing ball.