AD&D2E Wizards Question

[Quench]

Can someone confirm if this is correct for me please:

Quench wrote:

Mages can cast ANY Wizard spells.

Specialist Wizards can cast any Wizard spells EXCEPT for those in the opposition school.

Just want to make sure I'm getting it right.

Thanks

Q

[Feros]

Yes that is it.

[Auxmaulous]

Quench wrote:

Can someone confirm if this is correct for me please:

Quench wrote:

Mages can cast ANY Wizard spells.

Specialist Wizards can cast any Wizard spells EXCEPT for those in the opposition school.

Just want to make sure I'm getting it right.

Thanks

Q

It's actually opposition schools - the only Specialist Mage that got one opposition school was the Diviner, every other specialist had a two fixed opposition schools depending on the type of magic the specialized in.

[Alzrius]

Bear in mind that, towards the end of AD&D 2E there were enough "alternate" spellcasting classes that had their own spell lists that, while they were arcane, a normal wizard couldn't cast them.

The excellent Wizard's Spell Compendium books summarized this in more detail.

[Quench]

Thanks for the answers people :D

Alzrius wrote:

Bear in mind that, towards the end of AD&D 2E there were enough "alternate" spellcasting classes that had their own spell lists that, while they were arcane, a normal wizard couldn't cast them.

The excellent Wizard's Spell Compendium books summarized this in more detail.

Do you mean using other sourcebooks? I'm just using the core classes for now.

[Alzrius]

Quench wrote:

Thanks for the answers people :D

Alzrius wrote:

Bear in mind that, towards the end of AD&D 2E there were enough "alternate" spellcasting classes that had their own spell lists that, while they were arcane, a normal wizard couldn't cast them.

The excellent Wizard's Spell Compendium books summarized this in more detail.

Do you mean using other sourcebooks? I'm just using the core classes for now.

Other sourcebooks (e.g. the wild mage from Tome of Magic), alternate campaign settings, issues of Dragon, etc. If you're not using those then you should be fine.