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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gloombunny" data-source="post: 3795741" data-attributes="member: 54916">I'd be more worried about this if the beguiler and dread necromancer weren't so freakin' cool.  Better casting of the same spells the generalist wizard gets is boring.  Exclusive access to spells is better, but still not that cool.  But making them into distinct classes in their own right opens the door to flavorful abilities beyond spell selection.  Stuff like the beguiler's sneak-casting, or the dread necromancer's gradual transformation into a lich.  It also means that their abilities and spell selection can be organized around an interesting theme rather than sticking tightly to an arbitrarily-defined school of magic.  Like how the beguiler uses both illusion and enchantment spells, plus some additional stuff along the lines of glitterdust and undetectable alignment, because he's not just an illusion guy, but a more general trickery-and-deception mage.Yeah, if this means they're going to expand on what they started to do with beguiler and dread necro, I'm all kinds of pleased about it.</blockquote>