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<blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 9104989" data-attributes="member: 7034710"><p>This is a thought prompted by discussions in some of the other wizard threads that have been around but what spells are the most wizardy spells out there? <u>if you had to distil their massive arcane spell list into The Most Fundamentals Thematically 'Wizard' Spell List There Ever Was, what would be on it?</u> and i'm not just talking about picking spells for 'the wizard class' or that have always been on the wizard's spell list for a long time/many editions, i'm talking about the core idea of the intelectual who masters their control of the arcane through study, careful experimentation and research.</p><p></p><p>Oh sure spells like charm person, mage armour and leomund's tiny hut might be <em>good spells</em> but are they <em>good wizardy spells?</em> (by that same token just because a spell is a bad spell doesn't mean that it's a bad wizardy spell) now i'm not saying those spells couldn't be 'wizard spells' i'm just posing the question and asking you to think about if they are, like, charm person obviously falls much more into the bard's themes, mage armour feels like something that might be more along the sorcerer's alley? an informally taught mage who learns to channel their natural magic around their body to protect themselves, and tiny hut feel like it'd fit right in with the ranger's bunch of spells that simulate survival skills being able to create safe protected haven for the party to rest in in any environent.</p><p></p><p>Now i'm aware there's more than just one kind of wizard so if you want to divide up some of your picks into different spell list suggestions feel free to do something like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CreamCloud0, post: 9104989, member: 7034710"] This is a thought prompted by discussions in some of the other wizard threads that have been around but what spells are the most wizardy spells out there? [U]if you had to distil their massive arcane spell list into The Most Fundamentals Thematically 'Wizard' Spell List There Ever Was, what would be on it?[/U] and i'm not just talking about picking spells for 'the wizard class' or that have always been on the wizard's spell list for a long time/many editions, i'm talking about the core idea of the intelectual who masters their control of the arcane through study, careful experimentation and research. Oh sure spells like charm person, mage armour and leomund's tiny hut might be [I]good spells[/I] but are they [I]good wizardy spells?[/I] (by that same token just because a spell is a bad spell doesn't mean that it's a bad wizardy spell) now i'm not saying those spells couldn't be 'wizard spells' i'm just posing the question and asking you to think about if they are, like, charm person obviously falls much more into the bard's themes, mage armour feels like something that might be more along the sorcerer's alley? an informally taught mage who learns to channel their natural magic around their body to protect themselves, and tiny hut feel like it'd fit right in with the ranger's bunch of spells that simulate survival skills being able to create safe protected haven for the party to rest in in any environent. Now i'm aware there's more than just one kind of wizard so if you want to divide up some of your picks into different spell list suggestions feel free to do something like that. [/QUOTE]
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