This is not a pen and paper RPG. It is a computer RPG. The source material is adapted to the medium. Changes happen.
Every change from P&P on D&D history was to the worst. Warlocks on NWN2 are unplayable without warlock reworked mod. Pale masters on NWN1 giving no +caster level and being limited to one summon are also useless.
Originally Posted by Madscientist
(...) Enemies with longbows stand on a mountain and shoot at everything in a wide area below. The game expects you to disable them with a long range spell or you sneak up and shove them down the cliff. Oh, you created a char that cannot cast AoE spells or is extremely good in sneaking? You are an idiot who deserves to die. Everybody knows that it doesn´t work to fight archers when you are good in using swords.(...)
Except that the game is a PARTY based game. And even if you are a solo warrior, there are scrolls that can cast invisibility, darkness, mirror image, etc. Also, most archers at least on 3.5e had good reflex saves, most rogues also can have evasion and improved evasion feats so fireballs aren't the best way to deal with then. Not mentioning that while casting it, you are subjected to attacks of opportunity. A solid fog would be the best spell for that situation https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/solidFog.htm
And that is another problem of nerfing range of spells/bows/crossbows/etc; it renders some spells useless.
Maybe i an wrong, i never played much with martial classes but every martial soloing video that i saw end up using magic in some point, just like i had to use melee as a sorcerer in some point(tenser's transformation + BBoD) on my solo baldur's gate 2 run. Or slayer form. On 2e, among those who wanna solo, multiclass is extremely common, few people do pure martial or pure arcane or pure divine runs because they are very hard
edit - here is a video of myself dealing with enemy with very high magical resistance. I could use spells to lower his resistance, but i rather used slayer form + stop time + summons and killed him on melee.
