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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 3778731" data-attributes="member: 40961"><p>I like this a lot.</p><p></p><p>1) Wizards have always had a mechanical approach to magic. It makes sense to have them use tools.</p><p></p><p>2) It makes wizards mechanically different on the battlefield if they're holding a book in one hand and a gem in the other. They won't be threatening surrounding spaces, for one. I don't know exactly how that will be an issue, but I bet it will. Staff wizards will maybe still threaten.</p><p></p><p>3) This is much cooler than material components everyone ignores.</p><p></p><p>4) If wizards are expected to have one primary focus, and one secondary focus, as I expect they will, this will finally make wizards of different types genuinely different from one another. In the olden days of 3.5, specializations were something you took for the extra spell per day, then basically forgot about. Now it may actually matter.</p><p></p><p>5) The staff granting "big boom" effects as well as teleportation and telekinesis type powers is the unholy matrimony of stereotypical D&D wizardry with Gandalf's duel with the White Wizard. I... think I like it?</p><p></p><p>6) Prediction- items like The Evil Book of Evilness: +3 Tome, +5 for Necromancy spells.</p><p></p><p>7) Finally, enemy wizards don't automatically grant the party's wizard a bunch of free spells from the looted spellbook. Figuring out ways to stop that from happening was annoying. I could do it, sure, but I didn't like having to all the time.</p><p></p><p>8) You will be able to look at an enemy wizard, and know a little about what to expect. I like that.</p><p></p><p>9) I've got no idea whatsoever about what will be happening to the Sorceror and the Psion. These guys entire reason for existing seemed to be that they were alternate mechanical versions if the wizard. The Psion at least had a short nod towards having his own flavor. So he can be reincarnated, perhaps with a new mechanical system? The Sorceror though existed purely as a way of avoiding having to memorize spells in advance. What will his niche be now? If they give him the "customizable, innate magic" type abilities and flavor that the Warlock used to have, what will the Psion get? I'm taking it as a given that the psion won't be getting spell points.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 3778731, member: 40961"] I like this a lot. 1) Wizards have always had a mechanical approach to magic. It makes sense to have them use tools. 2) It makes wizards mechanically different on the battlefield if they're holding a book in one hand and a gem in the other. They won't be threatening surrounding spaces, for one. I don't know exactly how that will be an issue, but I bet it will. Staff wizards will maybe still threaten. 3) This is much cooler than material components everyone ignores. 4) If wizards are expected to have one primary focus, and one secondary focus, as I expect they will, this will finally make wizards of different types genuinely different from one another. In the olden days of 3.5, specializations were something you took for the extra spell per day, then basically forgot about. Now it may actually matter. 5) The staff granting "big boom" effects as well as teleportation and telekinesis type powers is the unholy matrimony of stereotypical D&D wizardry with Gandalf's duel with the White Wizard. I... think I like it? 6) Prediction- items like The Evil Book of Evilness: +3 Tome, +5 for Necromancy spells. 7) Finally, enemy wizards don't automatically grant the party's wizard a bunch of free spells from the looted spellbook. Figuring out ways to stop that from happening was annoying. I could do it, sure, but I didn't like having to all the time. 8) You will be able to look at an enemy wizard, and know a little about what to expect. I like that. 9) I've got no idea whatsoever about what will be happening to the Sorceror and the Psion. These guys entire reason for existing seemed to be that they were alternate mechanical versions if the wizard. The Psion at least had a short nod towards having his own flavor. So he can be reincarnated, perhaps with a new mechanical system? The Sorceror though existed purely as a way of avoiding having to memorize spells in advance. What will his niche be now? If they give him the "customizable, innate magic" type abilities and flavor that the Warlock used to have, what will the Psion get? I'm taking it as a given that the psion won't be getting spell points. [/QUOTE]
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