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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6267681" data-attributes="member: 1165">I agree. We don't get to see WotC's market research, but I suspect WotC got lots of requests for feeling like a mage all the time. Look at it this way: WotC has gone out of its way to remove a lot of good points from 4e from 5e, but they're keeping at-will magic. There must be some sort of incentive, considering at-will magic isn't really more powerful than options like using crossbows.Requiring wizards to play a resource management game that non-casters don't have to play was at the center of many complaints about wizards (combat balance and otherwise) in pre-4e D&D. WotC doesn't seem like they're a big fan of long-term resource management anymore. 5e wizards have far fewer daily spell slots per day than in 3e and earlier, for instance, and even 4e dropped some daily resource management from martial characters in Essentials.No matter how good the module, if you have a player who wants to play a wizard and feel like a wizard all the time, a balanced option doesn't really work there.</blockquote>