Sometimes I feel that sorcerors beat wizards in D&D 3.5. Maybe my next campaign will have the following house-rule:
1. There are no wizards.
2. Sorcerors can have spellbooks.
3. Spells can be scribed out of spellbooks.
What does that mean? Some sorcerors will transcripe scrolls into their spellbook, and scribe scrolls not based on the spells they know but based on their spellbook. All the wizard spells will still be around, but only from scrolls.
Maybe that gets rid of the long spell-picking process at the table?
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Yep. I like sorcerers, a lot, and so do players as there’s none of that Vancian memorization silliness to mess with. Give them spellbooks as essential hand luggage, and you’re done.
– GreyWulf 2008-06-18 15:45 UTC
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Interesting idea of getting rid of wizards, and having sorcerers basically be **the** arcane spellcasting class. However, you still have clerics or druids that have long spell lists and need to choose spells – wizards aren’t the only culprits.
– Adrian 2008-06-19 05:23 UTC
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That’s true. But in our Monday group we have a Mystic Theurge – twice the spell list to look through.
– Alex Schroeder 2008-06-19 08:41 UTC
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Suggestion: remember the magister from the AE playtest I ran? They have access to a long spell list (like the cleric), but they can only ready X spells per day, but then can freely choose what spells to cast off this spell list (kind of like the sorcerer).
What if a wizard had a spellbook, and each day could select a subset of spells (greater than the number of spell slots he has) to prepare/ready. From that point forward, he casts spells like a sorcerer.
– Adrian 2008-06-19 13:25 UTC
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The Magister is a step in the right direction, but as a player I can still ponder and change my spell list every in-game day. Making it easy to have utility spells available but have the lengthy spell picking happen when you gain levels – that’s the kind of compromise I’m looking at.
The problem as far as I can tell is that in my Monday group, five people sit around talking while the Mystic Theurge prepares his spells. If you’re a sorceror, you only ever consider your spells when you level up. That’s the kind of simplification I’m looking for. I’ve also never found the use of scrolls to be a problem – maybe because they still cost money to scribe and thus people don’t have many of them. It would be interesting to test this...
– Alex Schroeder 2008-06-19 16:02 UTC