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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4480606" data-attributes="member: 40961">That was a different flurry of nerd rage.The nerd rage that Remathilis is critiquing is the specific flurry of rage regarding the Golden Wyvern Adept and associated concepts.Look at the Warlock for a moment.  Its the class in the game that probably most clearly links flavor and mechanics.  The infernal pact warlock is full of fire attacks and powers his own person with dark energies ripped from his foes.  The fey pact warlock is a teleporting, mind controlling dynamo.  Each pact has its own set of proclivities that only make sense together because of the basis of flavor that undergirds the class.As far as we can tell, Golden Wyvern Adept was an attempt at crafting a similar superstructure for wizards.  There were three schools of magic, each with two associated energy types, one associated implement, and a set of associated styles of attack.  Interestingly, the wizard has three secondary ability scores- odds are pretty good that these were associated as well.I obviously can't say how well this structure would have worked- I haven't seen it in its final form.  But we know for certain that it did exist, and that it doesn't exist now- and a lot of people feel that when you look at the wizard's class entry you can see the holes where it used to reside.  Like the way only two wizard powers use secondary ability scores in any way, for example, or the way that various energy sources have feat prereqs that reference ability scores that don't seem otherwise related.  It seems very likely that there was a superstructure that brought all of this together, so that a Golden Wyvern Adept might hypothetically focus on constitution as a secondary ability score, have easier access to a certain suite of feats, and have benefits when casting spells from his favored school (ie, benefits to spells that are boosted by a high con score).  But apparently this was pulled out of the game.I am a bit embittered about this loss.  Right after chromatic dragons, I think its second.</blockquote>

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