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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 4365930" data-attributes="member: 18">What is this "1E/2E wizards were all blasters!" gibberish?What?!Nonsense. 1E/2E Wizards had access an insane array of bizarre and powerful non-blasting-type spells, and, in my experience, took very good advantage of that. Summoning, mind-controlling, illusions, polymorphing (themselves and others) and making huge use of "utility"-type abilities was practically the hallmark of the Wizard, Fireball and Lightning Bolt be damned. I mean, Wizards nuked when appropriate, but very often, it was best to use a Summoning spell or the like unless you knew you could hit a lot of fairly weak enemies with a blast-type ability, or try to one-shot some dangerous thing with a one-shot-type spell.Whilst I'm fine with the 4E "Harry Dresden"-type Wizard, the idea that well-played Wizards in previous editions were "all blasters" is utter heresy.</blockquote>