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Was there a mistake with the sorcerer weapons? (sorcerer and simple weapons)
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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 6366117" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>One of the things that has disappointed me the most as a sorcerer player is that they weren't given simple weapons to play with. For those of you that have never touched a sorcerer this might be weird, but this is kind of a big deal, from the very first time a sorcerer was rolled one of the most notable differences with wizards was access to the full suite of simple weapons as oppossed to just "wizard weapons" and both 3.5 and 4e incarnations had it. It is completely baffling that one of the subtlest but key differences got erased -and for the worse- all of my sorcerers have always carried some kind of weapon beyond a dagger/staff, merely axes, spears, sickles and the like, and know they just won't be proficient with any of them. </p><p></p><p>However when perusing a copy of the phb -I will likely buy mine next week- I noticed an oddity when reading the equipment it says something like choose a crossbow with 20 bolts or any simple weapon. In contrast the wizard entry clearly says "staff or dagger". I mean why give you the choice of any simple weapon if you just aren't proficient with them period? And on a second read the block of text containing the basic item proficiencies armor-weapon-tool is verbatim word for word the same as the wizard. Could this be a sign they lazily copypasted it then forgot to check if indeed that was the design intention? I mean there is a historical basis for all simple weapons and the equipment suggested includes any simple weapon but no proficiency? This has to be the only class that receives weapons they aren't proficient with and that is indeed an anomaly.</p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 6366117, member: 6689464"] One of the things that has disappointed me the most as a sorcerer player is that they weren't given simple weapons to play with. For those of you that have never touched a sorcerer this might be weird, but this is kind of a big deal, from the very first time a sorcerer was rolled one of the most notable differences with wizards was access to the full suite of simple weapons as oppossed to just "wizard weapons" and both 3.5 and 4e incarnations had it. It is completely baffling that one of the subtlest but key differences got erased -and for the worse- all of my sorcerers have always carried some kind of weapon beyond a dagger/staff, merely axes, spears, sickles and the like, and know they just won't be proficient with any of them. However when perusing a copy of the phb -I will likely buy mine next week- I noticed an oddity when reading the equipment it says something like choose a crossbow with 20 bolts or any simple weapon. In contrast the wizard entry clearly says "staff or dagger". I mean why give you the choice of any simple weapon if you just aren't proficient with them period? And on a second read the block of text containing the basic item proficiencies armor-weapon-tool is verbatim word for word the same as the wizard. Could this be a sign they lazily copypasted it then forgot to check if indeed that was the design intention? I mean there is a historical basis for all simple weapons and the equipment suggested includes any simple weapon but no proficiency? This has to be the only class that receives weapons they aren't proficient with and that is indeed an anomaly. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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