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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6999994" data-attributes="member: 7006">The more I think about it and the more of the various thematic ways people keep wishing they could be sorcerers (Genies! Angels! Golems! Reptiles! Storms! The Cosmos! The Feywild! The Shadowfell! The Machine! It just happens!)... the more I realize that I wish Sorcerers were only 1/2 casters like Paladins and Rangers.The reason?  If there are meant to be these dozens and dozens of different ways a person just can just find themselves having magic within them all along... it makes all the Clerics, Wizards, Warlocks and Druids look like chumps.  THEY just weren't lucky enough to be one of the myriad of different types of people who just have a magical wellspring inside of them from hundreds of different thematic fonts.  Those unfortunate souls have to give themselves over to a god, or make a secretive pact with some ultrapowerful otherworldly deity, or study and work reeeeeeeeeallllly hard through experiments and trial and error to learn to manipulate magic.  Those poor saps.The fifty-seven different off-brand Sorcerers?  Hey, good on them!  Sometimes being the Chosen people works out!  They get to be just as powerful as the stupid nerds who had to work at it, throwing 9th level spells around just like them.At least had Sorcerers been 1/2 casters... the other full casters could say "Okay, sure... they just had magic manipulation handed to them through a birth quirk of fate.  They're born mutants and just rolled well in the genetic lottery.  But at least they can't be AS POWERFUL a manipulator of magic as those of us who actually had to put in a bit of effort to gain our abilities."Doing it that way at least makes devoting yourself to a deity or striking a deal or studying hard a long time seem somewhat worthwhile in the end.  You get 9th level spells, while the jock can only reach 5th.</blockquote>

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