If 5e brings the hobby back to days [or, rather, into a "new age"] of groups with 6-8-10 people being a norm, and it has more than enough makings/variety to make that happen, imho, that is nothing but a good thing.
If 5e brings the hobby back to days [or, rather, into a "new age"] of groups with 6-8-10 people being a norm, and it has more than enough makings/variety to make that happen, imho, that is nothing but a good thing.
It's great. With multiple casters, you can stack up concentration effects, and pull off one-two punches like cloudkill/forcecage. (CK/FC is theoretically possible with just one caster, but in practice the enemy is likely to move out of the cloudkill before you can forcecage it. With two of you, it doesn't get that chance.)How do you all feel about 2 wizards in a party together? What is your experience with this?
That ain't cool. But you should bring it up with the DM, not us.Also, how do you feel about the DM inviting player after player without first talking to the players?
I'm not sure I get the "one person playing 2 characters" push back/irritation. That seems to me to be the least of the issues here...assuming a player wants to play 2 characters and is experienced/"good" enough as a player to make that work. In this case, it doesn't sound like they do want to play 2 PCs...so I would drop one and give the other to the DM to NPC or "write out" of the story as they see fit.
It's certainly not necessary to play 2 PCs (regardless of what a party "needs"/doesn't have niche-wise). But if it happens, I don't understand why that would matter to anyone else at the table. More characters = more chances for success...No? Or how someone have 1 PC but still running a secondary follower/"NPC" [which, I would submit, the DM would/should be controlling anyway] is any different than someone running 2 PCs.
I mean, it certainly wasn't a common occurrence bitd, most players definitely had their single/primary PC that was their favorite/they loved to play in a given campaign and that's all they played. But it happens/happened. Especially with somewhat flexible/amorphous groups with players coming and going.
Any insights there for a slightly confused 'Dragon? Is this another "spotlight/special snowflake" issue that I just don't get/have experience with?
If 5e brings the hobby back to days [or, rather, into a "new age"] of groups with 6-8-10 people being a norm, and it has more than enough makings/variety to make that happen, imho, that is nothing but a good thing.
I think you are looking at the two wizard situation all wrong. A second wizard in the party is an opportunity for all kinds of amusing shenanigans. Having a single wizard in the party is like being an only child. When something magically mischievous occurs, you KNOW who did it. A pair of wizards can have great fun with prestidigitation, pantsing the fighter and pointing to the other wizard to shift blame.
Remember that no matter what classes are in the party, you are a team. Wizards gotta stick together.
Two players with the same class have never been allowed at our table, unless the players wanted it. It's bad mojo in terms of spotlight stealing. The negative reaction you had is the exact kind if situation a policy like this addresses. And this isn't about math, it's about feeling like a badass.
In a game where you aspire to be the best wizard in the world, one of you will end up being the second best wizard in the room. Which is lame.