Hussar
Legend
Why should wizards be flashy? I don't recall Gandalf or Merlin throwing around fireballs. They should be mysterious and sagely.
In fact, why do wizards have fireball in the first place, and why is everyone saying "Wizards should throw fireballs"? Fireballs aren't very magical, and mechanically they aren't even all that effective. Heck I even remember some D&D novels bemoaning fireballs as something wizards shouldn't be using as a matter of habit.
Who's saying fireballs besides you?
What is being said is that wizards should do the big, blasty effects. That could be fireball, could be cloudkill, could be magic missile, could be meteor storm. Not that they should do that exclusively. But, it is the distinction that separates clerics from wizards that D&D has made for forty years. It's not like this is a new idea.
Is Zedd from Legend of the Seeker really a bizarre archetype for a wizard?
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