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A blasty list, with an eye toward wild magic. 1st character level: fire bolt, minor illusion, mage hand, blade ward; magic missile, shield 2nd level: thunderwave, swap magic missile for chromatic orb if player wants to spend the 50 g 3rd level: quickened and heightened metamagics; mirror image...

Yes, the sorcerer is the better blaster. The laughable part is the idea that the sorcerer "can do . . . little else."

Good one. To answer the question, the wizard's wide variety of spells allows it to fill several roles, including support and DPR. The drawback for its breadth is that it lacks depth in any one role, which is only partly compensated for with subclass.

Man, I wish distant spell worked that way.

Protection crossed with abjuration wizard could be fun.

I've always wanted to do a gravity-themed wizard's tower. The players get to the top expecting to meet the wizard, only to find a switch which reverses gravity. They have to flip the switch (and themselves) and then climb back "up" to the ground floor, where the wizard is waiting in an area that...

I have toyed with the idea of doing a wounds system where 25% of all HP lost become wounds or wound points. PCs could only regain HP up to their max HP minus their wounds, but they could remove the wounds by spending hit dice after a long rest. I haven't had the chance to playtest it at all, so...

If you use a bonus action to cast a spell, the only other spell you can cast on your turn is "a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action" (Player's Basic Rules 79). I would say that that applies even if the bonus-action spell is a cantrip, though other DMs might house rule it.

But you're back to using feats to smooth over shortcomings, which means either variant human or delayed ASIs. No, comparing the absolute value is not a trap. You state that, in the mook case, blur reduces your chance to be hit by 95%, and, once again, you are right but only as far as you...

Quite right. Yup, right again. I must have gone the wrong way with the -1.

@ad_hoc It's not that I necessarily think you're wrong, but you skip over consideration of the attack role and saving throw of fire bolt and vicious mockery respectively. Back of the envelope, it looks to me like you're 10% more likely to hit the hill giant with a spell attack than you are to...

Did Yunru, of all people, just say that?

I see three potential problems. First, you remove a knob that DMs can turn to control access to certain abilities in the story. If you don't want the PCs peeking in on the villains with clairvoyance, say that there's no prosthetics market where they can buy a glass eye in town. If you don't want...

Chromatic orb leaps to mind. Clairvoyance, circle of death, teleportation circle, plane shift, gate. If the demon-summoning spells from UA ever became official, removing their material costs would probably break the game.

*looking up above Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide* Only two? Are you sure? And no.

Is this just your own sentiment, or have polls been taken somewhere? Personally, I find druid, monk, and warlock to be less satisfying, if "satisfying" means having a solid gameplay hook while still allowing a variety of viable approaches to character background, role-play, and combat tactics...

There is a guide: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?479648-Bellator-Arcana-The-Eldritch-Knight-Guide The scaling of cantrips and the war magic feature make booming blade very good; green-flame blade can be good, but that depends on how little you invest in Int.

And the b(l)eat goes on. . . .

Yes, 1 AC at 1st level and 3 AC at 20th are not nothing, but the flip side is that -2 whenever bladesong is not active is also not nothing. The alert feat solves only one of the problems of that -2 AC, and only in games where feats are allowed, and the player has to play variant human to get it...

Now I remember why I stopped getting involved in rules discussions. Magic missile fails the basic test for being attack, and somehow the conversation about whether it is one goes on for eleven pages.