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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dkyle" data-source="post: 5882184" data-attributes="member: 70707">The flexibility and options are often cited, but I have no problem with having those things; the AEDU system could easily allow greater flexibility.  In fact, 4E Wizards can gain quite a bit of flexibility in spell choice.  What really limits them is the lack of flexibility of the spells themselves, and limited reasons to favor one over the other on a given day, not the AEDU system.What ruins Vancian for me is its the emphasis on Daily resources.  I think those are fundamentally bad game mechanics, and make it nearly impossible to have balance with classes based on at-will abilities.  Class balance becomes extremely unstable, and highly dependent on how aggressively DMs push day-length.  There should be no more than a smattering of them; even 4E has too many of them, I feel.</blockquote>