I have to agree, and say that I'm very happy with the way that 4th edition has basically tossed aside all the annoyances of Vancian magic. Third edition had a nice try at rendering the wizard viable by making crossbows an option, but then you're not a wizard, you're a crossbowman who knows parlor tricks. I tried several times to fix things by altering the way that scrolls worked and cost, allowing people to become walking libraries (even moreso than before with the '1 page per spell's level' rule and the limitation of 100 pages per spellbook) and then refresh their memories whenever they had a chance to roll one out. Scrolls, I mean.
I'm a little disappointed in the way they did sorcerers, just because they don't seem to have overcome an issue they mentioned pre-release: "Every time we came up with a way to do a sorcerer, it was basically just the Warlock again." But with that known and accepted (and a storm theme in Arcane Power making me giddily happy) I can live with it.
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on 2009-05-14 03:53 pm (UTC)I'm a little disappointed in the way they did sorcerers, just because they don't seem to have overcome an issue they mentioned pre-release: "Every time we came up with a way to do a sorcerer, it was basically just the Warlock again." But with that known and accepted (and a storm theme in Arcane Power making me giddily happy) I can live with it.