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Xanathar's War Mage is Gandalf, Dr Strange, and Elric
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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7726541" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p><span style="color: #ff80dd"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff80dd"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff80dd"><strong>On the contrary, this selection of subclasses has convinced me they still care. (And maybe that they are out of ideas for wizard subclasses). They choose a safe token wizard subclass for a reason. Other casters may dabble in another class schtick, because it is resource intensive for them, -A sorcerer can twin a cure wounds, but it evens out with Life Cleric bonus, cleric can still memorize more spells than sorcerer gets to know- but wizard is just too flexible, and wizard subclasses need to compete with the existing ones, so they have to go overboard without enraging other classes players. Hell broke loose after the Theurge was put on UA... As popular as wizards are, they are also potentially divisive so designers need to be careful with them.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff80dd"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff80dd"><strong>Edit: and maybe someday they'll come with a good idea for a generalist wizard, and the Theurge might see the print in the future once they've made their money back on Xanathar's and Sorcerer and Warlock players get to enjoy doing something wizards can't for a while. Not today though, but this isn't the last time we see new Archetypes in print.</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7726541, member: 6689464"] [COLOR=#ff80dd][B] On the contrary, this selection of subclasses has convinced me they still care. (And maybe that they are out of ideas for wizard subclasses). They choose a safe token wizard subclass for a reason. Other casters may dabble in another class schtick, because it is resource intensive for them, -A sorcerer can twin a cure wounds, but it evens out with Life Cleric bonus, cleric can still memorize more spells than sorcerer gets to know- but wizard is just too flexible, and wizard subclasses need to compete with the existing ones, so they have to go overboard without enraging other classes players. Hell broke loose after the Theurge was put on UA... As popular as wizards are, they are also potentially divisive so designers need to be careful with them. Edit: and maybe someday they'll come with a good idea for a generalist wizard, and the Theurge might see the print in the future once they've made their money back on Xanathar's and Sorcerer and Warlock players get to enjoy doing something wizards can't for a while. Not today though, but this isn't the last time we see new Archetypes in print.[/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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