JacktheRabbit
Explorer
Spellcasters! They are everywhere.
Unless you run a straight barbarian and never multiclass you will get the option to become some degree of spellchucker in 5th edition. One thing I liked about 3.x was that an non-spellcaster had to chose some pretty specific things and develop in a specific way to join a prestige class (at the DMs approval) to become a spellcaster.
Now everyone can chose a class option and become a spellcaster and even the barbarian if he wants to can take the Mage Initiate feat and gain a some magic to throw around.
It is certainly not game breaking by any means but it is telling that every single new class that has been added since DnD was created way back when is some sort of spellcaster. Maybe it is just the easy way out compared to developing interesting and effective non-spell abilities in sufficient quantities for more non-magic classes.
Oh and to be fair I am a bit of a hypocrite. I loved 3.x psionics and wish they would hurry up and implement it properly in 5e.
Unless you run a straight barbarian and never multiclass you will get the option to become some degree of spellchucker in 5th edition. One thing I liked about 3.x was that an non-spellcaster had to chose some pretty specific things and develop in a specific way to join a prestige class (at the DMs approval) to become a spellcaster.
Now everyone can chose a class option and become a spellcaster and even the barbarian if he wants to can take the Mage Initiate feat and gain a some magic to throw around.
It is certainly not game breaking by any means but it is telling that every single new class that has been added since DnD was created way back when is some sort of spellcaster. Maybe it is just the easy way out compared to developing interesting and effective non-spell abilities in sufficient quantities for more non-magic classes.
Oh and to be fair I am a bit of a hypocrite. I loved 3.x psionics and wish they would hurry up and implement it properly in 5e.