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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 6421565" data-attributes="member: 63245">I've heard many mention that the Eldritch Knight doesn't feel as "sword magey" as it could have been. I personally don't have any gripes with it but one thing did cross my mind. Would it break the game if you just allowed the  EK to pick 2 schools and call it a day, or atleast be able to switch one out with another school. Instead of being bound to Abjuration and Evocation. I get that those are debatably the most useful for a fighter, but what if you just want a fighter that can fill in a particular hole in your party. It, of course, wouldn't be any where near having a full blown wizard or cleric or whatever, but it could provide some potential support. Especially things like conjuration's ensnare where you can have a bit more control over the battlefield. You could make lesser versions of other classes (by this I mean lesser in magic, but still fill the role of a fighter). For example you could have necromancy and evocation and be a death knight. Again, I'm aware we have these or variants of these already but what if no one in your party is and you wanted to dabble? Unless I'm completely missing something, I don't think it would break the game. In fact many of the choices might be a downgrade in a combat situation but it'd be nice to have the option I think.And to pre-empt the question of "Why do that when you can be X", my answer is "I don't want to be X I want to be an eldritch knight with different access to schools". A Devotion Paladin and an Eldritch Knight with Evocation and Enchantment may play similar to each other but thematically they are very different. Again if the mods feel this needs to be moved to homebrew I completely understand, I figure I'd post here because of the traffic and technically not homebrew more of a question.</blockquote>

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