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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 7955748" data-attributes="member: 87792">If you were careful you could make metamagic into a wizard speciality - so instead of playing an illusionist, diviner, or bladesinger you played a metamagus whose thing was a metamagic pool.You could also use the main historical metamagic wizards have had - which is not the ability to metamagic on the fly the way a sorcerer could, but the ability to prepare metamagicked spells. So if you wanted an acid ball you'd have to prepare it rather than a fireball for the whole day (or you could prepare both).But the fundamental fact about wizard casting is that they are magical diletantes who, unlike other casting classes, do not actually master their spells (at least until 18th level). This is why they need to prepare them out of their spellbook every morning rather than actually having learned the spells. It's the very flexibility and "a mile wide and an inch deep" approach to their magic that prevents them from mastering their spells enough to be able to make minor tweaks to them on the fly.Meanwhile sorcerers go in hard on what they know and they have actually mastered those spells. They know their spells well enough that they don't have to refer to the notes every morning; they've worked with those spells and those specific spells enough to be able to adjust them on the fly. The benefit of the narrower specialisation sorcerers have is a greater mastery of those spells, which includes not having to refer to the notes on the base spell every morning. Wizards get breadth by getting more spells; sorcerers get breadth by adapting the spells that they have mastered.And the idea that just because they got their power from a different place means that they put less work in when their lives are on the line in a regular basis is IMO risible.Sorcerers and even bards have a better claim to metamagic than wizards do. Adjusting your spell list is an alternative to metamagic.</blockquote>

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