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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8854365" data-attributes="member: 907">The biggest problem I have with the wizard is that they can do All The Magic. Not each individual wizard, but if it's something you can do with magic, the wizard can probably do it (except healing). This eats up humongous amount of design space that could instead be used for more narrow casters, ideally with good theming. For example, I'm fairly certain that one of the reasons they haven't given us a proper psion for 5e is that there's pretty much nothing you could do with a psion that you couldn't do with a wizard, and now that wizards have neo-Vancian casting that doesn't really give power points much of an advantage.Come to think of it, I think the 3.5e psion is a pretty good model for a genericish caster. There's a central list of powers that all psions have access to, but the juicy stuff is exclusive to psions focusing on that discipline. For example, any psion can learn energy bolt (the equivalent of lightning bolt, but any energy type), but only kineticists can learn energy ball (same for fireball). Any psion can learn various mind-effery like cloud mind, mental disruption, or mindwipe, but only telepaths can delve into proper mind control like charm or dominate, or read someone's mind with read thoughts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8854365, member: 907"] The biggest problem I have with the wizard is that they can do All The Magic. Not each individual wizard, but if it's something you can do with magic, the wizard can probably do it (except healing). This eats up humongous amount of design space that could instead be used for more narrow casters, ideally with good theming. For example, I'm fairly certain that one of the reasons they haven't given us a proper psion for 5e is that there's pretty much nothing you could do with a psion that you couldn't do with a wizard, and now that wizards have neo-Vancian casting that doesn't really give power points much of an advantage. Come to think of it, I think the 3.5e psion is a pretty good model for a genericish caster. There's a central list of powers that all psions have access to, but the juicy stuff is exclusive to psions focusing on that discipline. For example, any psion can learn [I]energy bolt[/I] (the equivalent of [I]lightning bolt[/I], but any energy type), but only kineticists can learn [I]energy ball[/I] (same for [I]fireball[/I]). Any psion can learn various mind-effery like [I]cloud mind[/I], [I]mental disruption[/I], or [I]mindwipe[/I], but only telepaths can delve into proper mind control like [I]charm[/I] or [I]dominate[/I], or read someone's mind with [I]read thoughts[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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