Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
yeah but they’re like Community Colleges offering majors in Performing Arts, those arent like real serious Academies and Universities
D&D 5E Niche protection: the wizard’s niche
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yeah but they’re like Community Colleges offering majors in Performing Arts, those arent like real serious Academies and Universities
Vaalingrade
Legend
All I'm saying is that it's not the bards that get wasted and make owlbears. Who's really the serious and wise one here?
EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
Clerics.
Becoming a bishop almost always requires a doctor of theology degree, and you know how these religious types are, they're teetotalers.
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Yeah, but all they do there is drink and sing in the student pub. It's not like they ever go to class or anything.
Shadowedeyes
Adventurer
Battlefield controller. 4e wizards filled that role and they were really fun to play. You can spread out the utility spells a bit, with the wizard still getting a good chuck and it would fulfill the main wizard fantasy in my book.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
look I say intellect sage as opposed to wisdom sage is some what core to the wizard experience for no combat situations.
battlefield control is too vague a term to work I need a hard definition.
face is not core to its identity nor is scout so those are out.
past that, we get into the deeply subjective.
honestly, bard being a full caster skill monkey feels like it steps on as many toes.
perhaps if we forced the wizard into more restrictive areas it might be better as well to know what should be part of wizards' sub-entities such as necromancers
battlefield control is too vague a term to work I need a hard definition.
face is not core to its identity nor is scout so those are out.
past that, we get into the deeply subjective.
honestly, bard being a full caster skill monkey feels like it steps on as many toes.
perhaps if we forced the wizard into more restrictive areas it might be better as well to know what should be part of wizards' sub-entities such as necromancers
Shadowedeyes
Adventurer
You're not wrong about needing to pin down a definition for battlefield control. Even 4e wasn't really sure what that entailed when they first started out, IMO. I also think that you need to figure out the niches of everyone else to solidly do that, which is a bit beyond the original scope of the poll.
Scribe
Legend
Yes if each class has a niche, I'd love to see the consensus on what they are.
CreamCloud0
One day, I hope to actually play DnD.
that's the thing that this poll isn't really accounting for though, each class has more than one niche that it serves and can lean into, like the results are very clearly showing people think the wizard should be just as much a controller as a utility caster.
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