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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZSutherland" data-source="post: 1907181" data-attributes="member: 7638">As a contributer to some of the threads Sammael mentioned, I thought I'd chime in.  Yes, the schools need some work.  No, I don't think they're necessarily going about it the right way by over-powering some schools with things that probably belong elsewhere.  However, coming from a strictly PHB standpoint, most of the spells are assigned to the appropriate school.  You've got your oddballs, like Etherealness that are hard to place properly, and some are obviously in the wrong place.  Telekinesis should be an evocation.  Honestly, what aspect of the target object are you transmuting here?  You're lifting and manipulating the object (requiring some sort of force) via magic.  You are evoking kinetic force.  They just didn't want to do that because it would require a descriptor, the obvious choice would have been Force, and then people would want to know how to disintegrate someone's telekinesis effect.What WotC needs to do, and what they may be doing for all I know (since I'm not going to shell out hundreds of dollars to get the new, complete edition piecemeal), is create some more versatile spells that fit appropriately into the context of each school.  Why is it that most evocations are all about damage?  Is that all you can do with various types of force?  Enchantment is one of the richest schools out there, imho, because of the diverse effects that you can create with its spells, but nearly all the schools can be this versatile.  WotC needs to stop being afraid, especially since they're trying to pretty up specialist wizards, of creating multiple spells with similar end results in different schools.  Transmutation gets water walking, why not give evocation a spell that freezes the water into a bridge?  Things like that.  Honestly, how many spells in any new supplement are damaging spells?  Do they sell well?  Yes, because players like diversity and options in their spell-casters.Z</blockquote>

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