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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8299234" data-attributes="member: 7015698">I didn't do any DEEP thinking on the queston. I suggested a Swordmage just because there's already multiple subclasses in the PHB that do the 'multiclass lite' thing like how the College of Valor bard has fightery stuff in it, the Eldtrich Knight has wizardy stuff in it and the Oath of the Ancient Paladin has druidy stuff in it... but it's not a necessity. As for Xanathar and Tashas? I guess Xanathar could have a PROPER Necromancer as a Pet Class with a big chunk of class feature dedicated to summoning one or more skeleton minions even at early level. A Beguiler that got some Bard in it. Maybe a Transmuter who has his own take on the Druid's Wild Shape but more unnatural... Basically, the Scholar Wizard is the one who would basically be to the Wizard what the Champion and Thief are to the Fighter and Rogue ya know? A sort of basic representation with straight forward features, but with enough flexibility that you could just about represent any of the school specialists.But a proper Necromancer wouldn't bother with the whole 'scribes spells for cheap', they'd just HAVE those spells at appropriate levels and they'd have class features more in line with the more popular 'summoner' image of the Necromancer instead of the life siphoning thing that's the first feature the current subclass gets. Maybe those subclasses would be barred from certain taking spells of certain school past Spell Level X in exchange for more powers? I dunno, like I said, I'm spitballing not designing.Basically, Xanathar and Tasha would just have version of the specialists that had more advanced design, for lack of a better term. Am I making sense?My 4e Warforged Star Pact Warlock would disagree <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" /> and CON was even better back then!</blockquote>

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