| Den4quest |
I have had 3 players make pixies in the 35 years I have been running my campaign. So, far only the latest incarnation has been a success.
The first rogue pixie was so annoying to the rest of the party that half way through the adventure a minotaur party member (another race that has so far been attempted a few times to no avail) got so pissed off that the next time the pixie tried a fly by he grabbed the pixie out of the air (since after having a very large bug buzz by you several times eventually you will catch it....with a natural 20) Then tore the pixies wings off. That pretty much ended the pixies career then and there.
The 2nd pixie was a fighter/rogue decked out with all the special bows and arrows and rickita-rackita. Once again a random smack with a large bastard sword after the pixie had taken some other incidental damage was enough to kill that pixie at 1st level.
Finally, the current and most successful pixie character is a female cleric/rogue/wizard. She has finally hit 7th level and is a lot of fun both to travel with and to fight against. Yes, she has a ton of tricks but still with only 30 or so hit points she does have to stay out of everyones (friend and foe alike) lines of fire. I know that this character will be a hoot to play and a great asset to the party until some uber-powered creature which should be coming up shortly at her level like a lich or beholder which will detect her and simply take her out with a death ray or power, word kill. It did almost already happen once just as another person had mentioned. No one knew she was in their fireball radius and she got blasted into unconsciousness (around when she was level 5). An ogre mage picked her body up and was going to keep her as a slave/trophy. Luckily a lizard man party member (who recently has been charmed by a swamp dragon and is no longer with us) was keeping an eye AND A NOSE on the pixie...kicked the crap out of the ogre mage and saved her life.
No, I think that those of you that think pixies are over powered are only looking at their strengths and not their obvious weaknesses.