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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ubermeister Kevguy" data-source="post: 1133662" data-attributes="member: 14378">Hey everyone,I just wanted to thank Alkabong (Dungeon Master and Master Player) for all his work on balancing out the merger of the two arcane classes so evenly.  I for one have had need of such a system, and it has provided much more flexibility and variety amongst the Magi running around in my campaign.I know from reading over this lengthy string that some of you simply just don't follow it, and that's okay.  The main points for me were that: a fundamental split between the two styles of magic was artificial and contradictory to how magic has functioned in my Aeiranor campaign since it's inception back in 1988, and that it limited the types of Magi one might encounter.  For example, with this as a base class you could very easily play either a Wizard or a Sorcerer STRAIGHT OUT OF THE CORE RULES with absolutely NO alterations, and have it be completely consistent with this class - both of those two core classes are PARTICULAR expressions of the "arcane feats" - though these are best thought of (I think we've agreed) as exclusive class skills.One can also, however, create a variety of other magi, no more or less powerful, but different; For example, at Mage20, with all the "feats" mentioned in Alkabong's presentation, a Mage will have forgone item creation feats and other metamagic feats to enable a flexibility of casting.  For the rare adventuring mage, this might become a matter of life or death - imagine being on adventure, separated from one's spell books and having to rely upon one's Mastered spells instead!It also solves some of the metamagic "problems" some of us have ferreted out in our playtesting/playing...such as Sorcerers and Quickened Spells.Thanks Again AlKabong!PS - If you can't see the balance for what it is, you should probably consider playing a Fighter or something less complicated for awhile...sorry.</blockquote>

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