Gedain

Randomness does not allow for adequate character progression. I'll choose Evoker I and II, only to be offered strength and melee attack boosts in the future. Not only is this completely unintuitive from a character building perspective; it's also maddening in terms of planning strategically and building armies. Randomness ought to be constrained. With a back-of-the-lines caster, there is always a trade-off between, say, spell damage and spell mastery. There is also a trade-off