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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 9478104" data-attributes="member: 1465">I agree that Wizard subclasses could be more imaginative than just the 8 traditional schools, but bundling all schools in a single subclass would very probably end up being like 3ed wizard specializations: standardized and unimaginative. A mere set of bonuses, discounts or numeric adjustments. At least the 2014 subclasses had each something unique.In theory, the design space for wizard (and sorcerer, and cleric) subclasses is huge. They could have taken inspiration from 3ed prestige classes to find some unique character concept. Instead, I found the War Mage and Bladesinger a lot more boring than the traditional 8 specializations. Frankly, to me any &quot;combat mage&quot; variant is boring, it doesn't matter if one is about &quot;wizard with a sword&quot; and another &quot;wizard with bombs&quot;, they all feel samey for me when they are just about offensive abilities, which the base wizard class doesn't lack since the start anyway.So I'd rather have diviners, illusionists, enchanters and such at the end.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 9478104, member: 1465"] I agree that Wizard subclasses could be more imaginative than just the 8 traditional schools, but bundling all schools in a single subclass would very probably end up being like 3ed wizard specializations: standardized and unimaginative. A mere set of bonuses, discounts or numeric adjustments. At least the 2014 subclasses had each something unique. In theory, the design space for wizard (and sorcerer, and cleric) subclasses is huge. They could have taken inspiration from 3ed prestige classes to find some unique character concept. Instead, I found the War Mage and Bladesinger a lot more boring than the traditional 8 specializations. Frankly, to me any "combat mage" variant is boring, it doesn't matter if one is about "wizard with a sword" and another "wizard with bombs", they all feel samey for me when they are just about offensive abilities, which the base wizard class doesn't lack since the start anyway. So I'd rather have diviners, illusionists, enchanters and such at the end. [/QUOTE]

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