If I was making a high magic fantasy setting, instead of trying to worry about balancing casters against non casters I would just make everyone a caster and then build society around that. I consider that to be one of D&D's greatest flaws. You are making a tabletop ruleset - which is supposed to be played by people, which means it needs to be balanced - and then you are trying to tell me that someone who can manipulate time and bend reality is supposed to be balanced in comparison to someone who can't? I almost feel like its a bad joke. From my PoV, if you want to keep immersion, you either need to have a world where everyone is a caster and then a "fighter" is just a caster who uses melee spells, then you can make a balanced world, or you throw balance out of the window and tell people, "if you want to play a fighter, just know you will suck."
Last edited by Sharp; 21/11/20 01:48 AM.
