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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5911523" data-attributes="member: 2067">The problem being that the L&L article doesn't imply this will be an option, it implies that this is the way Wizards work.Look, people have their own preferences and they can be as arbitrary or insane as they really want. No one here can tell anyone else that their preferences for the way they like to pretend to be a magical elf are wrong. That's not really at issue, here. Even if some folks detest it as an option, that's something they're free to do. At issue is that there is a playstyle that the old-school "a few powerful spells is all you get" embodies that isn't embodied by this vision of a 5e wizard.But that's the thing: this isn't necessary for balance. You can balance even "Vancian" wizards by giving them a hard limit on spells per day. You don't need to add cantrips to low-level casters.Wizards don't need to have at-will magic powers to be balanced. It's unnecessary. Some folks like having that, and that's cool, and I think they should have that option, but this column doesn't describe it as an option, it describes it as the way things are. If that is the case, then this is 5e failing on modularity, failing on replicating the feel of early editions, and possibly failing to understand player psychology on a pretty fundamental level. It's a playtest, so we can certainly tell them that and see them change it. But it's a legit beef to have.And I think that, as petty as some players can be about stuff like this, if it's presented in the right way, the vast majority can find it acceptable -- as an option. Not-the-right-way includes not really understanding the gameplay effects of the game you're designing, but it's also not even a playstest yet, so making mistakes is forgivable. Anyway, folks need to calm the frig down. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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