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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 8727932" data-attributes="member: 22424">Ah, two other things have just leapt to mind. Neither is unique to 5e:The Wizard is just too powerful. It's not as bad as 3e, of course, but it does seem to be the best caster, where casters are better than non-casters across the board. Hard to see how to fix this one - the player base seems to object to any and all measures that reduce the power of this class (or even that reduce the power disparity).Clerics (and Druids and Paladins) have too many spells to choose from. This one I think could be resolved reasonably easily - provide a much more limited 'core' set that all Clerics access, but move a lot more spells into the Domain (Circle, Oath) list. Or indeed make many of the spells mysteries that only some Clerics learn, either as quest rewards or from ancient tomes/scrolls/whatever (just like Wizards, in fact).(Incidentally, on the latter point, the Essentials Set rulebook includes a fairly small subset of Cleric spells of the low levels, and I find that set much more manageable than the PHB set. Have I mentioned before that I like that Essentials Set rulebook? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 8727932, member: 22424"] Ah, two other things have just leapt to mind. Neither is unique to 5e: The Wizard is just too powerful. It's not as bad as 3e, of course, but it does seem to be the best caster, where casters are better than non-casters across the board. Hard to see how to fix this one - the player base seems to object to any and all measures that reduce the power of this class (or even that reduce the power disparity). Clerics (and Druids and Paladins) have too many spells to choose from. This one I think could be resolved reasonably easily - provide a much more limited 'core' set that all Clerics access, but move a lot more spells into the Domain (Circle, Oath) list. Or indeed make many of the spells mysteries that only some Clerics learn, either as quest rewards or from ancient tomes/scrolls/whatever (just like Wizards, in fact). (Incidentally, on the latter point, the Essentials Set rulebook includes a fairly small subset of Cleric spells of the low levels, and I find that set much more manageable than the PHB set. Have I mentioned before that I like that Essentials Set rulebook? :) ) [/QUOTE]

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