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This openness in player choice is not without its consequences. The Warmage is very powerful class with good stats, and the Psion is an interesting class in terms of play balance and abilities. A kick-ass Warmage played by a very competent player seriously effects play balance at low levels. Still – I wanted to open things up for the players more and allow them to make their AoW experience a chance to use whatever aspects of the official rules they wanted to use as an experiment. So far, it’s working out reasonably well.

The warmage is undeniably a powerful damage dealer, although hampered like all spontanious casters by the delay in obtaining higher level spells. They pay dearly for that power in a lack of versatility. They lack spells to buff themselves or allies, debuff their enemies, or do anything outside of combat. A party with a warmage as their only arcane support is going to be lacking a majority of the wizard's traditional support capability (flight, teleport, etc.)

I see no cleric in the group (don't know the archivist) it will be difficult, I have a group of 7/8 and the potions given by Jenya are all gone, they have 2 clerics and they haven't yet fought the Grell, the Raggas, they freed Keygan familiar, lost the barbarian (prisonner) and the monk (dead) to the Dark ones.

The archivist is basically a divine wizard, a cleric with a spellbook. They have the ability to use their knowledge skills to gain an advantage in fighting monsters.

The WotC website has an excerpt at:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20051007a&page=3