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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6749833" data-attributes="member: 25818">Originally posted by rampant:Prototype was garbage, Infuse arcane device is what I'm talking about. Basically I just don't want Artificers to be maintaining a tons of buffs at a time, the ability to maintain 1 or two extra buffs, especially specific buffs, isn't a huge deal but I want to avoid letting it get out of hand. Nuking the number of buffs a mage could have running at once is one of the things 5e did right. My last wizard? I assume you don't mean 4e because they had sensibly bounded spell books, so it's been a while (was not a fan of 3e caster classes prior to the warlock to be honest), hmmmmm that's probably the rogue-wizard MC, He started off with a level in or two in rogue and had so much fun with use magic device that he decided to be a real wizard. So he picked up his first level in wizard and began filching spells and scrolls left and right, by the time he reached 5th level effective wizard (he eventually went arcane trickster) he was getting close to needing another spell book, besides the extra copy he kept in case someone jacked his main tome, it would have been more but back in 3e you had other stuff to spend gold on. To say nothing of how in parties with multiple wizards they always choose different spells on level up and traded, thus doubling their spells known. Simply put it doesn't matter that not every wizard can get a huge number of extra spells known this way. The fact that the class allows them to gain additional powers known without paying an opportunity cost is broken as hell. Not as bad as most of your divine casters mind you, but still busted and requires DM enforcement to balance, which is the same as being unbalanced. The Artificer is multiple times worse since he's not just picking off a specific list but any spell in the game.</blockquote>

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