UA Domain Wizard

[Eltern]

What the bloody heck is the downside to being a domain wizard? Are they not better, IN EVERY WAY, than a normal wizard? If they're supposed to act as a replacement for specialization, that's fine, but there's no downside whatsoever as printed. I sorta think that's a problem, no?

Eltern

 

[Zerovoid]

What the bloody heck is the downside to being a domain wizard? Are they not better, IN EVERY WAY, than a normal wizard? If they're supposed to act as a replacement for specialization, that's fine, but there's no downside whatsoever as printed. I sorta think that's a problem, no?

Eltern

The downside is choosing your bonus spell from a more restricted list than normal. You only have one possible bonus spell available at each level, but a specialist would have several. Its really not much a disadvantage though, compared with not having forbidden schools.

On the other hand, its not like this will make wizards more powerful than clerics or anything.

 

[MadBlue]

The downside is choosing your bonus spell from a more restricted list than normal. You only have one possible bonus spell available at each level, but a specialist would have several. Its really not much a disadvantage though, compared with not having forbidden schools.

Basically, there is no downside. The implication is that you get a bonus spell slot dedicated to a bonus spell that you cast as one level higher - although, the description doesn't actually say "spell slot". It could be a typo, though.

On the other hand, its not like this will make wizards more powerful than clerics or anything.

No, but it will make Wizards more powerful than Wizards and none of the other class variants in UA grant something for nothing.

IMHO, I think the intention was that you get a bonus spell that you cast as one level higher, but you don't get a bonus spell slot. i.e., you have to use one of your regular spell slots, and that we'll see something to this effect in the errata. It just doesn't seem like WotC to have a variant that grants something for nothing, especially for one class only (and if it was only one class, why the Wizard? It's not like people have been saying it's underpowered).

MadBlue