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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8251452" data-attributes="member: 87792">Who's looking in detail and conducting this census to check that all wizards operate the same way? Even if we have a wizarding school and exams then the odds are the warlock can pass most of the wizarding exams - after all they can cast spells and most of the wizard's ritual.I'd have said this census and ensuring that everyone was cookie cutter clones so wizards who swap spell books are almost functionally identical to each other with only a little study was just weird and creepy myself. (And yes I'm aware this was improved by the way 4e/5e handles specialisations).I'm not even sure that a Partisan and a Ranseur are different weapons but they've had different rules.&nbsp; Clearly D&amp;D has historically had different rules where the distinctions were trivial. And the difference between two people is not.Well, yes. But two named bugbears can also have different rules.And Elminster and Tasha are different sorts of casters therefore they get different rules. The idea that just because they prepare spells from books two people must do so using the exact same mechanics irrespective of e.g. individual study patterns is something I find weird. This is a non-trivial difference, especially when you are supposed to be all about studying and casting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8251452, member: 87792"] Who's looking in detail and conducting this census to check that all wizards operate the same way? Even if we have a wizarding school and exams then the odds are the warlock can pass most of the wizarding exams - after all they can cast spells and most of the wizard's ritual. I'd have said this census and ensuring that everyone was cookie cutter clones so wizards who swap spell books are almost functionally identical to each other with only a little study was just weird and creepy myself. (And yes I'm aware this was improved by the way 4e/5e handles specialisations). I'm not even sure that a Partisan and a Ranseur are different weapons but they've had different rules. Clearly D&D has historically had different rules where the distinctions were trivial. And the difference between two people is not. Well, yes. But two named bugbears can [I]also[/I] have different rules. And Elminster and Tasha are different sorts of casters therefore they get different rules. The idea that just because they prepare spells from books two people must do so using the exact same mechanics irrespective of e.g. individual study patterns is something I find weird. This is a non-trivial difference, especially when you are supposed to be all about studying and casting. [/QUOTE]

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