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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 8588865" data-attributes="member: 6689464">Mechanically? It is over the place and that is ok. Thematically, the sorcerer is needed as a yang to wizard's yin. The Mage/MU/Wizard is both rigid and iconic. It can't be changed without D&D losing something D&D, but it can only cover so many character concepts and backstories. The sorcerer is needed to fill the gaps (which at times are more than what the wizard can fill). To be emotional where the wizard is logical, to be unwilling and reluctant where the wizard is driven, to be nature to wizard's nurture. It also covers a lot of how magic users function in popular fiction and folklore of certain places.   To date no single implementation has achieved that theme to the fullest, so it is best that the mechanics remain fluid.Even the existence of other casting classes doesn't negate the need for the sorcerer, because the sorcerer is the only caster class that isn't the character's choice. All other casters require their members took actions to become their class -study, train with a mentor, join the church, do forbidden rituals,...- the sorcerer is unique in this regard, nobody chooses nor can choose to be a sorcerer. That alone provides for a wealth of character concepts that are impossible otherwise. And as somebody once told in these forums, sorcerers are the Xmen of D&D.</blockquote>