>>96333032
You seem extremely focused on DnD Wizards specifically instead of the actual topic.
>Like if someone at least listed Mage Hand or Acid Splash from D&D as examples of a wizard can be creative, I could maybe have accepted it.
If you already knew you were wrong, why act as if you weren't? Seems disingenuous.
>Going "magic is just better in every instance" is a copout, since it denies the possibility that a mage can ever be outsmarted, outwitted, or even be just unprepared for a particular situation
This isn't really a challenge to the statement in any way.
It's easier to outsmart them if you have magic, because magic expands your options.
It's easier to outwit them if you have magic, because ditto.
It's easier to catch them unprepared if you have magic, because...
And so on and so forth. You're basically laboring under the assumption that all magic is specifically and exclusively DnD magic, and specifically and exclusively DnD wizard magic at that. It's not, not even close.
>only to be run through with a sword because they didn't expect their foe to run into melee and thus forgot to wear armor under their robes
He'd be a 'tard in my setting because magic users wear armor and still use melee because why wouldn't they.
>Or shot through the eye by an arrow from a foe they couldn't see
He failed to learn and uphold a number of basic spells if this happens, so again the issue is being retarded.
>Or even just the off-chance they use up all their spells taking out the enemy arch-mage and his army
They don't "use up spells" in my setting.
>only to have nothing in reserve to handle the one goblin with a knife using his comrade's dead bodies
Also a non issue, even in DnD as a wizard high enough leveled for that could beat ten goblins to death with his bare hands.
>>96333068
Try not replying to obvious troll posts.
