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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thasmodious" data-source="post: 4976307" data-attributes="member: 63272">Allister is right.  3e was quite the different beast (as different from older editions as 4e is from 3e).  Older edition wizards were hard to play and those restrictions imposed a lot of balance against their overall power at higher levels.  The 1e wizard is definitely my favorite iteration of the class.  The 4e wizard, though, let's talk flavor.  The assumptions are a bit different from 1e, the adventurers begin fairly powerful rather than farm hands and wet behind the ears apprentices, but from those assumptions, 4e has the most wizardly wizard since 1e, I would see.  They just ooze arcane power.  The 4e wizard can cast spells all day long and not just some combat spells.  My 4e wizard wakes up in the inn and as he's stretching, a cup of water is poured from the nightstand and brought to him.  While he drinks it, his clothes, stained from travel and wrinkled all to heck, float over and affix themselves to him.  By the time he descends the stairs, they are spotlessly clean and pressed.  He orders breakfast without seeming to speak aloud and feasts hands free while he peruses arcane texts with the aid of a magical light that floats just over his shoulder.  He never opens a door with his own hands, lights candles and campfires from a distance, is equally comfortable on cold or hot days and is a master of the prank if he wants to be.  Cantrips all day long are all about the flavor.</blockquote>

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