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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6030478" data-attributes="member: 6668292">The character may object to wearing armor for a number of reasons; he's against fighting, he values freedom of movement over protection, or the like. A wizard not adding spells is peculiar, unless the extra spells do start to explore a realm he objects to (like combat). It can be analogous, but seems like it begs to be explored more than the person not wearing armor. The Wizard, after all, is defined by spellcasting, and the same is not true of armor.In-character reason? There can definitely be some, obviously (you don't believe in combat). But this is what I'm speaking of.My point is that you can make them more knowledgeable than those who use magic, or better than those who wear armor. And you don't need to water down those other archetypes to do it.It seems, to me, that you don't think feats like Linguist should exist, then. It's knowledge over a feat that would increase spell-casting, after all. Again, I do think that trade-offs should optionally exist for those who want them. If you don't want them, awesome; stick to your 3/3/3 default.Two things, here. One, that sage won't exist if you stick to 3/3/3 (again, problem solved). Two, the game can still make magical knowledge the pinnacle of knowledge; it simply has to outpace Lore skills. It's not my preference, but it could still easily be designed that way.Again, how does the sage upset your game, even fictionally, if you stick to 3/3/3 builds? How does the option upset it?This is something that doesn't relate to the 3/3/3 default and the opt-out. It could all be 3/3/3 and have the same scene-framing and action resolution you don't like.They can support this, still, even with the opt-out. Just explain in the opt-out how it will change the game. You stick to 3/3/3 and a wide variety of PCs, and get the game you like. Done. As always, play what you like <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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