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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClaytonCross" data-source="post: 7953228" data-attributes="member: 6880599">It your doing a Bladesinging wizard school of X it works. Lets also remember that Elric and the majority of sources like this the wizards/sorcerers were also skilled martial fighters. Even Gandalf in Lord of the Rings used magic sparingly but then wielded a sword in combat most of the time. School of Adjuration, School of Divination, and School of Illusion would need a multi-class or something to function. However, there rest could work as they are as ether damage or crowd control builds based on sub-class abilities and spell lists but all suffer from poor defense without Adjuration spells. I might suggest with no changes Adjuration + one other school of spells and up to 3 cantrips from a third school, then your good to go without any other tweaking. Even if you your Adjuration / Divination you can survive and once you hit level 2 you get mind spike so your not unarmed. If your just Adjuration and the 4 cantrips in any school is a little over the line but cantrips represent the lowest form of magic so while your not "skilled" in but 1 or 2 schools you have just enough to a couple of cantrips.If you want to hold it to one school and not use Bladesinging, you have to homebrew some more cantrips because there just are not enough to even have 5 with each school and on top of that since offensive and defensive cantrips tend to be on different schools you end up short a "functional character".  Not looking for optimal here you should have some defense and some offense. Even one school and your choice of cantrips solves some of both problems.</blockquote>

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