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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9103513" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>It's because Wizards in D&D are just incredibly boring and lack a niche.</p><p></p><p>"I can cast alllllllllllllllllll the different arcane spells!!!!" isn't a niche. It's barely an idea.</p><p></p><p>It's not something players actually care about.</p><p></p><p>Basically you have two kinds of players playing Wizards at this point:</p><p></p><p>1) Super-strategic types who really love analyzing the hell out of spells and situations, and coming up with cunning plans relying on various OP Wizard spells. These guys have been around since 1E, probably earlier. But they're very rare now, because very few people enjoy playing this way, and the 5E Wizard doesn't support it well, because you can't memorize the wild breadth of spells you could in 1-3E.</p><p></p><p>2) People who want to be Harry Potter-types and heard this was the book-caster. They are almost inevitably disappointed with how extremely boring and featureless D&D magic. Basically nothing Harry Potter-ish is going on. Even 4E, 4E the supposedly Wizard-hating edition, which supposedly "ruined" Wizards with AEDU, had way cool and more distinctive Wizards who actually felt like Wizards from a fantasy story.</p><p></p><p>And WotC just profoundly doesn't get it.</p><p></p><p>They're in the process of changing the entire spell list design (and probably spell design) of 2024, simply in order to make it so Wizards are still defined solely and entirely by their spell list, and are still a deeply featureless and boring class that doesn't really match with any kind of inspiring or exciting vision of spellcaster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9103513, member: 18"] It's because Wizards in D&D are just incredibly boring and lack a niche. "I can cast alllllllllllllllllll the different arcane spells!!!!" isn't a niche. It's barely an idea. It's not something players actually care about. Basically you have two kinds of players playing Wizards at this point: 1) Super-strategic types who really love analyzing the hell out of spells and situations, and coming up with cunning plans relying on various OP Wizard spells. These guys have been around since 1E, probably earlier. But they're very rare now, because very few people enjoy playing this way, and the 5E Wizard doesn't support it well, because you can't memorize the wild breadth of spells you could in 1-3E. 2) People who want to be Harry Potter-types and heard this was the book-caster. They are almost inevitably disappointed with how extremely boring and featureless D&D magic. Basically nothing Harry Potter-ish is going on. Even 4E, 4E the supposedly Wizard-hating edition, which supposedly "ruined" Wizards with AEDU, had way cool and more distinctive Wizards who actually felt like Wizards from a fantasy story. And WotC just profoundly doesn't get it. They're in the process of changing the entire spell list design (and probably spell design) of 2024, simply in order to make it so Wizards are still defined solely and entirely by their spell list, and are still a deeply featureless and boring class that doesn't really match with any kind of inspiring or exciting vision of spellcaster. [/QUOTE]
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