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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9320378" data-attributes="member: 58172">Fixing the Wizard is part of fixing the Sorcerer.First reorganize the spell schools thematically, so each school is a clear salient flavor.• Abjuration (healing)• Conjuration (planar magic, multiverse, summoning)• Divination (spacetime, prescience, teleportation)• Dunomancy (force, fly)• Enchantment (mind magic)• Evocation (elemental magic) − pick two elements from Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Primordial (Elemental Chaos)• Illusion (quasi-real objects)• Necromancy (darkside)• Transmutation (shapeshifting, animal, plant)Every caster gets the Universal school (Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, etcetera, also Wish)The base class of the Wizard only needs the spells from three spell schools, the ones that best characterize the traditional Wizard flavor:• Dunomancy (force): Mage Hand, Magic Missile, Shield, Mage Armor, Fly, etcetera.• Evocation (elemental magic): Fireball, etcetera.• Divination (spacetime, prescience, teleportation)Wizard subclasses can add an other spell school, such as Illusion or Transmutation, even a generalist scholar.Then, decide on which schools best characterize the Sorcerer base class concept.Currently, the Sorcerer flavor schools are mostly:• Evocation (elemental magic) − pick two elements from Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Primordial (Elemental Chaos)• Illusion (quasi-real objects)• Enchantment (mind magic)But should these be the main Sorcerer flavor?Maybe the Sorcerer should mainly focus on:• Evocation (energy and affinity)• Conjuration (planar magic, multiverse, summoning)• Enchantment (mind magic)Then the Sorcerer subclasses can add an other spell school:• Draconic: maybe Martial features to become more gish• Wild: all five of the Evocation elements (not just two)• Clockwork: Abjuration (healing)• Aberrant: Necromancy (including Aberration spells)</blockquote>

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