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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 399067" data-attributes="member: 3087">For some reason I can't remember I was thnking about specialist wizards.Two wizards, we'll call them El and Mer are hanging out. They grew up together and studied Divination under the same master (they're both diviners).Mer was a wise sort of guy and didn't really see the need in making things explode. He can't cast evocation spells. he can't even look at an evocation school and understand it.El's a Diviner but he loves blowing things up. He's got no knack for enchantment spells. He says its because he's honest  For whatever reason Enchantment/Charm spells are Greek to him.Now, this doesn't make too much sense to me as a story. But it happens all the time in D&D. I'm morally opposed to changing rules unessessarily but I had to wonder if there wasn't a better way that didn't involve a lot of new mechanics.What if specialization worked like this: specialists get the same number of spells as wizards of the same level (no bonus spells) however spells of your specialization were easier for you to understand.A specialist memorizes (& casts) a spell of his/her school as if they were one level lower (1st level spells don't move down, neither do cantrips). Spells of their 'prohibited' school are treated as two levels higher.[In addition each caster gets the feat heighten spell for their school only. so they can always choose to improve their spell to its normal level for DCs and so forth.][edit: remembered why]I recently had a near TPK from an 8th level PC  Evoker who suddenly had an involuntary change of heart after hasting himself. The whole party went down in 1 round (two fireballs DC 24). Except the monk, he couldn't get through the wizard's sheild to grapple and played 'catch the magic missile & go to negative hit points' the following round.A 3d6 fireball from a specialist at 3rd level doesn't really bother me but I could see how it could upset others.Comments?</blockquote>

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