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And his name is ...?Nah, that's the Swashbuckler.
And his name is ...?Nah, that's the Swashbuckler.
No, I got that part.And his name is ...?
Tied with the school of blowing stuff up.notice that Bladesinger was the most popular Wizard followed by the War Mage
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.Tied with the school of blowing stuff up.
Hmmmm, we don't have this sort of info post-Tasha's...but WotC does, do it will be interesting to see where they go.While I do think the Bladesinger is a shoo-in, what would also imply that the Order of Scribes is going in too.
It’s the school of blowing stuff up, so … if it ain’t broke, break it.If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The core problem is the way spell schools work with a second problem being that Nethermancy (shadow magic/debuffs) covers far far more of the "Necromancy" school than anything to do with the actual dead does.The problem is that right now, there aren't enough spells to make dedicated specialists. I mean, have you tried to make a caster who focuses on something like summons, necromancy, or fire magic? At best you get one spell per level and a lot of redundant effects. You'd have to add I'd say a good 50 to 100 more spells to the game to make that work. It is still a struggle to get simple concepts like elementalists or shadow mages to work without having to dip into the Top 20 Best Wizard spells to round them out.
I couldn't disagree more. The 5e mages being better at their specialist school and the spells in it is far more evocative and meaningful for a specialist than being a cookie cutter mage with just extra spells from a field (especially when the 3.5 wizards could choose divination and drop evocation that had about three good spells that couldn't be roughly matched by conjuration).As much as I like the schools of magic, I think they were better in 2e/3e where you specialised gaining bonus spells and losing access to others.
No more Portent - my favorite (as a player) class featureDivination - 14 spells (one cantrip (true strike), so few spells overall, no 6th or 7th level spells) - Nope.