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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charles Rampant" data-source="post: 6927150" data-attributes="member: 32659">I'm pretty sure that all of this got hashed out before. Remember there was that guy who declared that Bladesong was broken, and when people cited the Evoker's ability in return, he said that he ignored it because, "It's a twinky ability that didn't exist in 1st edition"? Good times. I thought that was so funny, I shared it with my players.Anyway, yeah, Bladesingers are cool. Their main benefit, from what I've seen, is offering a different 'flavour' of wizard. While an Evoker and a Illusionist might feel relatively similar a lot of the time, the Bladesinger definitely feels a step removed into the Gish camp. The fact that most of the time it will be doing roughly the same sorts of things doesn't impair that, and it gives the Wizard class a lot more appeal to some people who really don't want to play Gandalf, but instead something closer to a swashbuckling clever lad with a magical rapier in one hand and a spellbook in the other. 5e is pretty good at serving that particular niche, between Arcane Trickster, Valor Bard, Eldritch Knight and Bladesinger. As for balance, if we're being honest I tend not to have my monsters attack the wizard all that often anyway. I like to let the Tank feel special by having the monsters crush his/her skull in every third fight... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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