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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 938293" data-attributes="member: 3146">My own prediction about this particular 3.5e change is as follows:You'll see very very few abjuration or divination specialists. Those schools offered decent benefits in 3e at the cost of one school (2 if you're an abjurer and picked divination and necromancy as prohibited). However, this usually amounted to selecting as a specialty school something that wasn't your primary spell list. An Abjurer, for instance might use transmutation for most of his offense--the difference between him and a transmuter was that he always had a bunch of abjurations on hand and the transmuter might not. Similarly, a diviner might use mostly evocations but he would always have a bunch of divinations handy which few evokers would.In 3.5e, the cost of two schools will outweigh the benefits of having a good selection of abjurations or divinations.You'll also see very few people select Evocation, Transmutation, or Conjuration as their opposition schools. In 3e, this was a solid mechanical choice--it was a high cost but often more acceptable than losing 2 or 3 other schools--for characters who wanted to specialize in one of the big three and also offered a lot of flavor (I've seen quite a lot of Evocation barred conjurers and transmuters and some conjuration barred evokers). Evocation was also a viable banned school for enchanters and illusionists who wanted to avoid the "artillery mage" stereotype.In 3.5e, there is no benefit to selecting a more important school as an opposition school and it is therefore less likely to be done. Furthermore, since two schools will always have to be selected as opposition schools, it will be a more pressing matter for wizards to pick the schools least useful to them. (Since the absolute costs will often be higher, minimizing them will be of less importance. Just like people are much more likely to min/max their purchase of a car than their purchase of toilet paper at least in part because the associated costs are much higher).So, 3.5e will see a drastic reduction in both the variety and flavor of specialist wizards. I predict no more evocation banned wizards and no more abjuration specialists.</blockquote>

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