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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7914769" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Well, preparation is huge. Possibly a bigger deal than most other differences. My wizard can play differently on different days, and prepare for what we know of the challenge ahead, which incentivizes research.My warlock can kill stuff efficiently no matter what, but her only versatility is in rituals and a couple utility invocations.beyond that, the wizard has rituals at all times, while the bard only has what they know and the cleric only what they prepare. In an actual session of play, those are all markedly different.likewise, the spells lists themselves. If you look past meta game structure to what is actually happening, the spells are just as different as different class features. In fact, that is what they are, they’re just a type of class feature packaging.but I can’t imagine any real spell analysis that finds thunderstep and acid arrow to be especially similar. Even more so, the types of spells that clerics have, or druids have, that no one else has. Or the Paladin Aura and smite spells. or the combinations of spells that only bards can have. Etc.Then, even beyond all that, you’ve got bardic inspiration, song of rest, the difference in skills and what stats are likely to be higher and lower, turn undead and destroy undead, extra attack vs Cantrip dependency, every single round of combat, and at every turn out of combat, these classes are doing wildly different things.No wizard can ever throw a single target spell at two targets by spending a resource, and few non-wizards can regain long rest spell slots on a short rest. I can make two characters who in fiction are not at all of the same archetype using the wizard class. A Bladesinger is not the same as an illusionist or enchanter. And that’s with all the same base class features.</blockquote>

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