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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gweinel" data-source="post: 6019076" data-attributes="member: 2165">I don't like where wizards tradition are going for a couple of reasons. I don't like the idea and the fluff behind it. "If you are illusionist you can cast more often invisibility (or any other illusion spell)". A specialist is compared to the general wizard only by the number and the frequency of the spells? That is that makes you special? For me is not enough. I would love to see each tradition to have more unique things to do. Exclusive spells and maybe powers. A summoner is the person who has contacts to other planes, he knows names of monsters and unique beings and the secrets behind these names. He knows its strength and weakness and can bind a creature until that creature complete his quest. For a summoner to call a creature is not only to dispatch enemies in combat as the limited knowledge of a generalist wizard might be. For a summoner the summoned creature could help in all three pillars of the game from the 1st lvl.  I know my example is not perfect, but i think this kind approach would make a tradition more unique and not just a simple (bad imho) mechanic to rise or low the frequency and number of spells.Another issue that bothers me in this kind of approach is that if you want to have both the 4e and 1-3e players happy you will have augmented versions of each spell. I don't know if this is exactly a good design approach. Too many infos for different mechanics in the same text will cause a good amount of confusion. Having said that i would like to say that i don't mind at will and encounter based spells, but i don't want em in my game. This playstyle is not for me and probably for any low magic campaign. The long awaited wizards tradition go to this kind of play style. I hope at least to present some different options for ppl who don't like high magic and high fantasy games. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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