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Magness · 01-03-2001, 04:07 PM

One ANGRY lil man was right on.

D&D is about putting together a group (a squad, if you will) of people whose skills compliment each other to build a greater whole. Sure, you can probably build some good jack-of-all-trades versatile characters that will be useful, but it really defeats the role-playing intent of D&D.
No one class in D&D is meant to be able to deal with every situation. Even a multiclass fighter/thief/mage (the ultimate swiss army knife character, I suppose) will be a great deal of trouble in many situations where his lack of experience in any specific skill set hurt him. I'd really suggest learning how to manage your party of NPC's.

If you're having trouble with your NPC's in battle, then I'd suggest that you turn off the party AI and control their actions yourself. I never let the party AI control my NPC's.

01-03-2001, 04:07 PM	#7
Magness Quintesson Join Date: January 7, 2001 Location: Manchester, NH, USA Posts: 1,025	One ANGRY lil man was right on. D&D is about putting together a group (a squad, if you will) of people whose skills compliment each other to build a greater whole. Sure, you can probably build some good jack-of-all-trades versatile characters that will be useful, but it really defeats the role-playing intent of D&D. No one class in D&D is meant to be able to deal with every situation. Even a multiclass fighter/thief/mage (the ultimate swiss army knife character, I suppose) will be a great deal of trouble in many situations where his lack of experience in any specific skill set hurt him. I'd really suggest learning how to manage your party of NPC's. If you're having trouble with your NPC's in battle, then I'd suggest that you turn off the party AI and control their actions yourself. I never let the party AI control my NPC's.