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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hatchling Dragon" data-source="post: 328723" data-attributes="member: 580">[Sarcasm]Bah!  Wizards are the only sane choice!  Being able to choose from a potentially limitless selection of spells, making your own Scrolls as whim or circumstance dictates, all that extra knowledge gained while you study (ie: bonus feats), it's obvious which is the better choice!  Why anyone would 'sink' to playing a crippled caster, sometimes called a Sorcerer, is just plain beyond me...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />[/Sarcasm]  (ps: if you don't know what Sarcasm is, I was kidding! )Acutally it's been rather tempting to give up my Wizardly ways (nearly all my characters to date) for the carefree style of a Spontanious Caster.  While being a Wizard's all that I ever wanted or hoped for, see the above for my main reasons for choosing this class so often, I seem to still have the same old problem of never choosing the right spells.I'd say to anyone wanting to play an Arcane Caster for the first time;  Play a Wizard.  I know conventional wisdom says try the Sorcerer, but with the trouble of never knowing what spells to have the Wizard's the best for the simple fact that he can concievably have every spell he knows on-hand at all times though Scrolls.  Granted this will soak up large sums of cash and/or Exp, but if it's the choice of writing up another (non-caster, ptui!) character or having the spell you need on-hand I'd go with the exp/gp hit.Hatchling Dragon</blockquote>

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