How Have You Houseruled Wizards in 3.x to Be the Masters of the Universe Once Again?

[Sylrae]

If you want to make wizards be more like the 2e versions, make spells easier to disrupt, (drop the combat cast feat) and give them less spells per day. The biggest reason 3e mages have less power is because they dont need to conserve their resources as much.

Then you could go through and redo the spells to have bigger damage, or what I would do, just use 2e spells. other than the added distinction of spell components and spell focii the spells are set up the same way. its amazingly easy to convert 2e spells to 3e. 3e just has more in the top table that doesnt have to be in the spell description.

So the short of it.
1. Drop Combat Casting;
2. 2e Spell Progression table. its just plug n play;
3. 2e Spells.

Keep the rest of the class as per 3e.

You could easily do the same with clerics to get the specialist priests, with a total of 7 spell levels instead of 9.

The only thing im not sure of is the difference in hit points between 2e and 3e. you may need to up the damage of spells. but this is where i would start

 

[Sylrae]

Quick Thoughts/Revision to my last post.

- Damage on spells seems to be the same as it was in 2e. fireball still has the same damage cap. (Admittedly there were some higher ones in 2e, but I'm just saying that the damage ratio is very similar.)
- Hit points dont increase as much in 2e, thats true. After level 10, in 2e you get a flat 33.3~% of your max on the dice, rounded down, with no con bonus. That does make the lower level spells not scale nearly as much as they used to. you could still do hit points that way if you really want to though, just make sure you adjust monster hp as well.
- 2e spells do hit point damage instead of ability score damage. you may well be already accounting for this.

 

[joethelawyer]

testing out something...nonsense post here...

 

[Sylrae]

so, joethelawyer. what have you decided on? I want to know what you pick, and how it works out.
~Sylrae
P.S. since its been dying to be said since you started this thing and nobody has said it: "By the Power of Grayskull!"