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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7851575" data-attributes="member: 996">There's no standard wealth/level in 5e, like there was in 3e & 5e, and no de-facto correlation of treasure and level from XP-for-gp like in earlier versions.  One of the cool things about 5e is that you can, in theory, find a horde of treasure at low level and be rich the rest of your careers, or struggle through a hard-scrabble, hand-to-mouth existence into the highest levels.So the Wizards' scribing extra spells, let alone buying them, along with other spells linked to specific gp costs, are factors that will float widely based on the campaign, and it wouldn't be entirely valid to factor them into comparisons of classes - in some campaigns, they'll be trivially available, in other they'd be out of reach, and everything in between, as there's no base or standard.d4 HD?Know spell %?AoOs for casting in melee?Old-school Vancian "memorization?"Hard restrictions on armor & weapons?Needing more exp to reach 2nd level than everyone else?It seems like a lotta things are missing from the 5e wizard!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Yes, because they're both things you might or might not get to do depending on how profligate your DM is with treasure.The STR based fighter (or Paladin, or Cleric) with heavy armor proficiency only gains the full benefit of that with enough gp.  The wizard is not alone in needing some gold to take fullest advantage of a class perk.  But it's a bonus in campaigns that happen to be flush, not a necessary ability.  The class should be fine without it.  And, frankly, a wizard with "just" the 44 spells in his book he gets for 'free' is a lot better off, than a STR-based fighter or Paladin in a poverty-stricken campaign who can never afford armor better than Ring'mail' (down 3 AC from the max DEX PC in 'studded' leather).</blockquote>

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