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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3752782" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'd agree with that.  In fact, I'd say it didn't really start getting fun until 7th level or so when you were likely to get through most of the day without running out of spells.  About fifth was just the first level were you got a chance to really play a big role on the team.I think 3rd fixed that to some extent, but it still quite admittedly has problems.Let me do a full confession.  I always hated DMing low level wizards because they were so dull mechanically even in the hands of the better players, and because they are so fragile that its hard for me to avoid killing them.  (In 3rd edition, I got so notorious about killing off wizards that my players who wanted to be wizards took level 1 in fighter and the accompanying end game power loss just to be durable enough to survive.)  Whenever it  happened in long term campaigns that a player wanted to be a wizard, I confess that I've been cheating since about age 14.  I always borrowed a page from Dragonlance and either had the character start with or quickly find some highly useful magical device that let them play a bigger role right from the start.  I do it so often that I'm not going to mind if 'journeyman Wizard's apprenticeship gift inherited from his mentor' becomes a class feature.  Typically, it was a ring or staff that would increase the number of minor per day features that the class could do.  In modern terms, it would give the character say 3-6 more cantrips per day and maybe some other small bonuses.  At low levels this would give the character something to do and wouldn't matter at high levels.So to a certain extent, I am comfortable with the notion of wizards killing the warlock and taking his stuff while losing some of thier phenomenal cosmic power at high levels.  If a 1st level wizard could do 'Ray of Frost' as a standard action, and 10th level one could fire a single 'Scorching Ray' as a standard action, I don't think its going to hurt and it might help the game.*  But I just don't see 'per encounter' balancing as the way to go here, because I can think of only a very small number of things for a wizard to do 'per encounter' that are interesting and mostly they don't involve spells per se.*On the other hand, given how rapidly 3.X levelling is by default, such a system of 'at will blasts' is not very different than simply assuming that a Wizard will equip themselves with an affordable wand at all times.  I've never seen a 3.X edition wand actually run out of charges, unless it was a wand of CLWs or such.</blockquote>

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