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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 3548723" data-attributes="member: 3424">I'll simply re-post what I said in <a href="http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/showthread.php?t=23622" target="_blank">this thread</a>:To be frank, I've never really liked the way that the rules handle school specialization. In my view, they are at the same time too restrictive (you can't ever learn spells from your prohibited schools) and too lenient (apart from your one bonus spell per spell level, you can prepare any spell in your spell book; apart from the one spell of your school you must learn at each level, you can scribe any spell from any non-prohibited school into your spellbook). Because wizards tend to choose the best spells in their non-prohibited schools, the most distinctive thing about a specialist is what schools he gives up. Assuming they gave up the same schools, an evocation specialist and an abjuration specialist may end up with very similar spells known and prepared. It seems rather perverse to me that a specialist is better defined by what he doesn't know than by what he does.</blockquote>