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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 66702" data-attributes="member: 99">I have pretty open lines of communication with my players and I even discussed this house rule with them.  I can say with a fair degree of conviction that they don't believe it is overpowered.  But they don't tend to be powergamers anyway.As for the advantages/disadvantages of the class, I don't think any of my players would contend that being utterly at my mercy when it comes to what spells they get is not a disadvantage.  My campaign has been a little on the cash poor side so far and there is nowhere to conveniently buy scrolls anyway.  So any Wizard (and like I said, I don't have one in the game right now) would have to just hope that they run into an arcane spell caster who scribes scrolls, hope they defeat him, and hope they defeat him before he uses all his scrolls against the party.At the moment, they are getting their butts kicked by a pack of Kobold Sorcerers and Rogues.  So that doesn't promise a whole lot of scrolls as treasure either.If anything, I would guess that the reason nobody is playing a wizard is not because it wouldn't be a challenge.  It is probably because they think I'm too much of a Rat-Bastard DM (tm) and too stingy with the scrolls.</blockquote>