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In a single round of combat, a wizard can use a spell to rain fire and bring a max health fighter down to 1 hp.
In comparison, in a single round of combat, a fighter can swing their sword four times and bring a max health wizard down to 1 hp.
So they're both as good as each other in a hypothetical 1v1 combat scenario which is unlikely to ever come up during an actual game. Bravo. Can we stop having this argument? It's been 4 months since this exact meme was posted.
No! We must run the scenario in every system first, then compile the distribution of outcomes.
I think you forgot about the bear barb who takes half damage from everything but psychic. Good luck getting them down to 1 hp in 1 round unless you go first.
Poof and suddenly your barbarian is a turtle. No need to harm them.
Unless it's true polymorph they are gonna get out soon enough.
an hour is plenty of time to prepare some nasty surprises. but once again, this doesn't really matter. dnd doesn't work well for pvp