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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simia Saturnalia" data-source="post: 3911122" data-attributes="member: 53692">Had to vote the fourth. Ultimately, for my defense of the new gamer and the new edition, my feelings about it are selfish. I'm such a picky game omnivore that I -assume- I'll hate parts of a game while loving others before I ever pick it up, and I only ever play with my own group anyway.I find "Golden Wyvern Adept relates to making 'holes' in your area spells" much less intrusive on my world-building efforts than the "Magic that doesn't come from the gods comes in the form of discreet and specific spells which the caster memorizes from texts written with special expensive inks, then forgets in their entirety upon casting", or "Warriors who live and work in the wilderness fight with two weapons" that 2e gave us.My current thought for those feats? Tradition. When a wizard shows an aptitude for leaving blank spaces in spells with an area effect, he is commonly addressed by other wizards as a 'Golden Wyvern Adept'. No-one actually knows why save that it's always been that way, though prominent wizards and sages have long, rambling, contradictory explanations.If the players care enough to have the PCs investigate, I'll make something up. Wizard magic always felt like "leftovers from those awesome wizards of legend' anyhow.</blockquote>