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13 months ago ::
Jun 05, 2012 - 1:42AM
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Date Joined:
Sep 26, 2001
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If the vancian wizard's spells were as limitted in number as the magician's of Jack Vance's Dying Earth, they might be less of a problem.
The playtest wizard's at-wills seemed pretty adequate for the caliber of foe they were facing. The 3-level advancement chart got the wizard up to 4 1st and 2nd level spells, for a total of 6. That ties Vance's Mizirian the Magician, one of the greatest wizards of his time.
The 4e wizard, who topped out at 4 or so dailies was actually closer to 'Vancian' in that sense than 3e and earlier wizards, or the 5e playtest wizard. :shrug:
While radically restricting spells/day could theoretically balance quite powerful spells or quite large/varied spells-known lists, it still runs into the same problem that all daily powers do. They skew encounter balance, and destroy class balance if all classes aren't given comparable daily resources.
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13 months ago ::
Jun 05, 2012 - 2:03AM
#12
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Date Joined:
Jan 15, 2009
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If the vancian wizard's spells were as limitted in number as the magician's of Jack Vance's Dying Earth, they might be less of a problem.
And if they were like the magicians of the dying earth you could probably rememorize them after each fight, ie they could be encounter powers.
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