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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3880015" data-attributes="member: 158">I understand his hyperbole, though. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Wizards, in stories from which D&amp;D was inspired, were the only one of the two dabbling in wondrous forces that made the story special by dint of its sparing usage. Someone using magic was someone to be feared; Gary Gygax made magic special by making it a very limited resource. They were balanced by that limitation. Now, with magic being increasingly more common over the editions, Wizards have had to be dialed back from what they were - or at least the preview playtests suggest that very thing. It's just a shock to different people at different times. In terms of the power of wizards versus non-wizards, we're moving away from the &quot;Ars Magica&quot; end of the spectrum and more towards the &quot;Feng Shui&quot; side of the spectrum.(And for those who take offense at that, I'm not talking about &quot;D&amp;D is becoming anime&quot; or any such thing. In Ars Magica, Fighters are literally the grunts that accompany the Mighty Wizards; in Feng Shui, Wizards have just as much &quot;combat coolness&quot; as the Brawler, the Average Joe, the Medic, the Cybernetic Abomination or any other PC concept.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 3880015, member: 158"] I understand his hyperbole, though. :) Wizards, in stories from which D&D was inspired, were the only one of the two dabbling in wondrous forces that made the story special by dint of its sparing usage. Someone using magic was someone to be feared; Gary Gygax made magic special by making it a very limited resource. They were balanced by that limitation. Now, with magic being increasingly more common over the editions, Wizards have had to be dialed back from what they were - or at least the preview playtests suggest that very thing. It's just a shock to different people at different times. In terms of the power of wizards versus non-wizards, we're moving away from the "Ars Magica" end of the spectrum and more towards the "Feng Shui" side of the spectrum. (And for those who take offense at that, I'm not talking about "D&D is becoming anime" or any such thing. In Ars Magica, Fighters are literally the grunts that accompany the Mighty Wizards; in Feng Shui, Wizards have just as much "combat coolness" as the Brawler, the Average Joe, the Medic, the Cybernetic Abomination or any other PC concept.) [/QUOTE]

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