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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 4098245" data-attributes="member: 1465">It in indeed the safest way to do it. Basically it means not to have any specialization rules.For some reason, D&D rules always assumed that a specialist wizard must have some advantage over generalists, and chose to do it in terms of more spells per day, but really there is no foundation for this assumption. As soon as this benefit is granted, then it is necessary to balance the generalists back, and traditionally it has been done with the horrible (IMHO) idea of forbidden schools.I say horrible because it is the single restriction in the game which cannot be overcome in any way, without being dicated by ethical reasons. Really, no reason for a specialist to be completely unable to learn a certain spell...I don't see any problem in seeing those characters from Harry Potter simply pick up almost only spells from their specialty school: an Illusionist is just someone who ends up knowing more Illusions than anybody else (and maybe has some feats to make them slightly more powerful). More spells per day has nothing to do with specialization.</blockquote>