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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2276539" data-attributes="member: 2067">I think specialist wizards suffer from the same problem as specialty priests, but compounded.Specifically, an Illusionist is it's *own* archetype. It is a trixster, a prankster, a spellcaster and magical creature who is here one minute, gone the next. They are savvy and worldly; more like magical rogues than like scientific wizards...but they are shoehorned into the Wizard archetype, and so made to be just one particular flavor of studious magic....bleh...The Illusionist (like other big-name specialists, like Necromancers, Conjurers and Enchanters) should have her own set of abilities, her own class of skills. She should be able to hide spellcasting, she should be able to overcome true sight, she should be able to pull the wool over the most observant celestial's eyes. She should become invisible with a Hide check, she should be able to levitate items with a Sleight of Hand check, she should be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat and saw a woman in half and make the Statue of Liberty DISSAPPEAR! She should not just be someone who knows an extra Illusion spell. She should be *defined* by the choice of illusion, and the illusions she learns should be just as potent in their own way as any other beings' powers at her level. Not just an illusion-focused wizard, but a magical, mystical master of the unseen and unknown!I've done it IMC by making them more like a cleric, with things like domain powers and a more limited spell list, but with broadened powers related to their focus.That said, the Gnome/Bard thing makes sense once you realize that the Bard is just a mis-named D&D class. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The Bard would ideally be focused on performance magic, instead of all this dabbling and dibbling he's doing....But then again, that's when I rule D&D with an iron fist and command legions of gamers to do my bidding.... <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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