Narf: Actually, the prestidigitation description says that it can be used to flavor things - as scent is 90% of flavor, they DO smell like meat.
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Imperator Fyron said:
Erm... those are some absurdly wealthy 1st level characters! 8-O
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While granted platemail is a little much to expect, differing armor sets still can easily leave the fighter with a higher AC - suppose they both have 100 gp in their armor budget:
Fighter: Scale Mail (50), Tower Shield (30) (total 80)
Rouge: Chain Shirt (100)
Give the rouge 18 Dex, the rouge has 10 (base) + 4 (dex) + 4 (armor) = 18.
Give the fighter 14 dex (or more, but the armor limits the dex bonus to that), and then the fighter has 10 (base) + 2 (dex) + 4 (tower shield) + 4 (armor) = 20.
Fighter still has the advantage in AC, it's just been reduced from an advantage of 5 to an advantage of 2. However, you did say they could "easily" have as high of an AC, which isn't really the case, at least starting out. Sufficently later on, the rouge's AC can continue to climb for as long as the rouge can find some way to increase dexterity, while the fighter is left with trying to find, make, or enchant better armor. Which has the more difficult task ultimately depends on the campaign.
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Imperator Fyron said:
Note that never once did I say that a rogue could be a direct comparison to a fighter in combat... that would defeat the purpose of the Fighter class.
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Not directly, no. However, you did say "rogues can have as high of an AC as a fighter decked in plate mail can, easily" which was
making a direct comparison to a fighter in combat. Sure, you didn't
say you could do that, you just did (at least once) in a context where it was fairly easy to come to the conclusion that you meant to say rouges were better than fighters in combat.
Likewise, note that I never once said the rouge was a pansy in combat - just (and I'm quoting here) "In combat, a rouge's options are more limitied than those of a spellcaster (no spells to choose from), and they are less effective than a fighter of equivalent level", yet you jumped on me as though I had said the rouge was worthless in combat.