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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Musing Mage" data-source="post: 8426017" data-attributes="member: 7025552">When I was prepping my 5e 'Hardcore Old School' mode, I wanted to nerf this. The idea that Wizards have full control over what they choose without drawback is the main bone of contention. In old school games they had to roll to learn their magic, and failure meant you couldn't learn those spells. So I added a house rule along those lines - before you can learn a spell you had to make a DC 13+ spell level Intelligence check. Failure meaning that spell is barred to you until your proficiency modifier goes up and you can try again.At level 2 when you choose your school, you can make rolls to learn spells from your school at advantage.My player who loves the power-game mode of RAW 5e absolutely HATED this rule, so I knew it was the right way to go. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f608.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":devilish:" title="Devil    :devilish:"  data-smilie="29"data-shortname=":devilish:" />Oh, and regarding this thread... I loathe Artificers. They do not show up in my games, and players who suggest that I let them play one get flogged.</blockquote>