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<blockquote data-quote="Knight_Errant" data-source="post: 1341452" data-attributes="member: 6995">I think this is the key to the debate of spontaneous caster vs. prepared caster. Sorcerers are much more capable of dealing with threats on a tactical level than wizards are. In your example had your party simply headed into the lair of the Black Dragon at the time it was discovered; your sorcerer would have been as prepared as he would have in any other situation where the wizard and druid might not have been. This is not to say that the spells you had available were usefulagainst the Black Dragon but perhaps more so than the wizard who had all of his &quot;information&quot; gathering spells memorized for that day.Exactly.&nbsp; And this is one of the weaknesses I see in the Sorcerer class. I have seen many positive suggestions of what could be done to tweak the sorcerer here and elsewhere. I voted that it is underpowered mostly because I dont feel the &quot;fluff&quot; of the class description is translated into the mechanics of the class. For instance, why do sorcerers need Spellcraft? From the description I would guess that they arent casting spells so much as they are releasing arcane energy. I think WotC lost it when they attempted to apply the arcane spellcasting rules to the sorcerer class; that is to say, the same rules set that wizards use. I think they could have come up with an alternate version of how magic worked for the sorcerer without writing another set of magic rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Knight_Errant, post: 1341452, member: 6995"] I think this is the key to the debate of spontaneous caster vs. prepared caster. Sorcerers are much more capable of dealing with threats on a tactical level than wizards are. In your example had your party simply headed into the lair of the Black Dragon at the time it was discovered; your sorcerer would have been [b]as prepared [/b] as he would have in any other situation where the wizard and druid might not have been. This is not to say that the spells you had available were [i]useful[/i]against the Black Dragon but perhaps more so than the wizard who had all of his "information" gathering spells memorized for that day. Exactly. And this is one of the weaknesses I see in the Sorcerer class. I have seen many positive suggestions of what could be done to tweak the sorcerer here and elsewhere. I voted that it is underpowered mostly because I dont feel the "fluff" of the class description is translated into the mechanics of the class. For instance, why do sorcerers need Spellcraft? From the description I would guess that they arent [i]casting[/i] spells so much as they are releasing arcane energy. I think WotC lost it when they attempted to apply the arcane spellcasting rules to the sorcerer class; that is to say, the same rules set that wizards use. I think they could have come up with an alternate version of how magic worked for the sorcerer without writing another set of magic rules. [/QUOTE]

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