Quote Originally Posted by Cazero View Post
About wizards adaptability.
Can V blast the treants by hirself? No. All that arcane might, absolutely useless. Not adaptable.
Yet V definitely knows hir stuff. Here, Z has the exact same adaptability problem.

There is no doubt that in both case, a wizard could have the right spell to solve the problem prepared, because they are versatile. Too bad they need 8 hours of rest to change their options, because it is the opposite of adaptability.

A champion fighter might never have half as much options than a wizard, but he can swap between them as a move action at worst. The wizard needs 8 hours of rest if he did not prepare the right spell. How is the wizard more adaptable that the fighter? Answer : he's not.

In that context, adaptability has nothing to do with the number of options available. It has everything to do with your ability to access all of them at your whim.

And don't get me started on the wizard that prepared a feather fall just in case, but need two in the same day.
sure, you keep telling yourself that. there's no way V couldn't have summoned some minions to deal with the druid's minions given the right spells, or prepared reverse gravity, or dispelled their protection and then nuked them, or had any of a host of other possible solutions to the problem. no, sir, those two spells V cast were clearly all of the possible options a high-level wizard could have possibly had, and it certainly was not in any way a joke about how sonic damage gets past just about everything.

and in 5th edition, there's no such thing as preparing a feather fall, but being in a bad spot because you need two. you prepare it, you have as many available as you have spell slots (plus any possible scrolls, etc).

if adaptability has to do about having access to all of your abilities at your whim, regardless of how many abilities you may have, then the wizard would somehow become *more* adaptable by losing their spellbook and never being able to change spells, at which point the spells the wizard has prepared would be all that the wizard has. personally, I find the notion that the wizard would become more adaptable by being unable to switch out spells to be so obviously absurd that it shouldn't even need anyone to point out how absurd it is, but apparently I was wrong. some people do, in fact, need to have it pointed out how absurd that would be. three times now, even.

by your definition of adaptability, the champion would be equally adaptable if we took away *all* of the subclass features, and removed the ability to shove, take feats, or have skills, or use different weapons, so long as the champion always has the ability the hit things with the one weapon it is allowed to use all the time.

if adaptability increases with having more options at a time, then the wizard has that, *plus* the ability to spend 8 hours changing their options for other options.

and every other class and subclass in the game, excepting the berserker, has more adaptability than the champion, making it not a strength of the champion at all.