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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GM Dave" data-source="post: 5914327" data-attributes="member: 6687992">Now, while I did post that a Wizard could easily in 1e and 2e dominate at low levels with a couple of spells like Charm Person and Sleep; it usually didn't happen.The reason?The random spell book.A wizard used to start with 3 first level random spells along with Read Magic.The three spells came from three different tables labeled Offensive, Defensive, and Miscellaneous.You could be the Great and Powerful Magic-User that started their career with Push or Light as their Offensive spell.  You might have Affect Normal Fires or Feather Fall as your Defensive spell.  You might have Erase or Mending as your Miscellaneous spell.If you could pick your spell then their were clear differences in power (a mean DM could have you level 9 or 10 before you ever found a copy of sleep or charm person).One of the advantages of 2e specialist was that at least you could sort of control the spell that you got because you were guaranteed to know one spell connected to your specialty.---------------------Now in 3e it was different in that you could choose which 1st level and Cantrip spells that you had been taught (You actually got All 0-level and 3+Int bonus level 1 spells).You also started with Scribe Scroll as a feat.A wizard that was not putting some of their beginning cash into having a few extra spells on scrolls was not working the system.I also would make use of the rules on the time needed to study a spell in 3e.  You needed 8 hours of rest and then separately you needed time to study and prepare.  A wise wizard did not use up all their spell slots on prepared spells but kept one or two slots open for a lunch hour preparation period if it turned out a switch in the spell pool was a useful idea (like a little used utility spell or finding that you were in a dungeon full of plants and undead).</blockquote>

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