D&D 5E Mike Mearls Dungeons & Dragons 5e interview, 6/26/14

[Remathilis]

This makes me very sad, so the only choices for a sorcerer are going to be overpowering monstrous flavour (with hopefully non intrusive mechanics) or negligible flavour with highly intrusive mechanics. What happened to simple flavour with simple mechanics? Why do I have to be forced to play an extra minigame just because I don't like wizards?

1.) The wizard and sorcerer have the same spells per day.
2.) The wizard and sorcerer both spontaneously cast from their pool of "prepped" spells.

Generic sorcerers would be different from wizards how?

 

[thalmin]

1.) The wizard and sorcerer have the same spells per day.
2.) The wizard and sorcerer both spontaneously cast from their pool of "prepped" spells.

Is this confirmed?

 

[Kobold Avenger]

1. There's a single unified spell-casting progression table. This is for multi-classing.
2. Wizards, Clerics and Druids can cast spontaneously from the spells they've prepped for a day. Other classes get spells known when gaining levels, and can cast spontaneously from them.

What sorcerers get is sorcery points, they can use those to do things which we've haven't been shown yet. What distinguishes Wizards from Sorcerers are class abilities, just like how Fighters and Rangers are different.

 

[TerraDave]

In fact, with cantrips, the mechanics of sorcerers, wizards, and warlocks have all been combined.

 

[JamesonCourage]

Generic sorcerers would be different from wizards how?

Spellbook? That doesn't matter to a lot of people ("don't touch the Wizard's spellbook"), but it would matter for a lot of groups, I imagine.

 

[GravyFingerz]

Good for you, glad you can play your wild WIZARD homage, but it is bad for me it was at the cost of a versatile SORCERER.

YES IT IS GOOD FOR ME THANK YOU FOR NOTICING! I AM SORRY THAT IT ISNT WHAT YOU WANTED! I HOPE THERE IS A FIX SO THAT YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT AND WE CAN BOTH BE HAPPY!

 

[Thaumaturge]

ARE WE YELLING NOW? I ASSUME WITH JOY!

YAY!

THAUMATURGE.

 

[Mistwell]

[video=youtube_share;7pdWAcK6Eh8]http://youtu.be/7pdWAcK6Eh8[/video]

 

[thalmin]

shhh. i'm trying to sleep.

 

[GravyFingerz]

This is the kind of derailing that I like