On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Ryan Honeyman wrote:

>
> > ...The wizard is much more difficult to play than the bard.
>
> It's only as hard as you make it.
>
> Still, saying that a wizard is much harder, when the wizards
> I've started all say low difficulty seems to contradict your
> opinion (in the designer's mind). The wizard has two goals in life:
>
> 1) Stay alive.
> 2) Nuke the crap out of things.
>
> Wizards have no technicalities to deal with, no decisions to
> make on the fly. They wait til X mob is at a certain health

I think that's what he was getting at. They have so few
options, that there are only a narrow range of situations
where they can really do well. Bards and enchanters OTOH are
so flexible they can (given enough intelligence) usually turn
any situation into their favor. It boils down to what you
mean by "difficult." Do you enjoy solving problems with just
a few tools, or do you enjoy having a wide assortment of weak
tools and puzzling over which will work best to solve the
problem at hand.

Of course, one could argue that not-so-intelligent players
would prefer the few-tools approach since it involves fewer
permutations per situation.

--
John H. Kim
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