[JustAnotherJarhead]

As usual, great reply points.

Some even serve to reinforce my point that wizards rarely made it to the level that would allow use of wizards wrath.

I call it the D&D party, where everyone is Neutral Good or Lawful Good, cooperative and friendly.

Then... there is the TFT party that I played with, where I also happen to play (cause Steve is awesome) a REPTILE MAN.

Let's just say my Party, and reflective of my friends in high school, was a little less Lawful Good, and a bit less cooperative. Add to that, that sometimes played a Reptile Man wizard.
The need to fight, and stay standing, and be very self dependent made for a very non-D&D type of party strategy and character build philosophy.

It's part of the reason when I returned to TFT decades later, I was in shock at the gilding of the "greater" creatures that I was so familiar with, the advancement being a struggle of course with XP, but Wizard Lizards didn't meet an early death, and stood their ground without the need for wizards wrath, and didn't take much Sh** from mouthy humans or pesky hobbits.

It's been a fun challenge, changing my favorite character builds to try and adapt to the new rules, and see if they can survive and still be playable as I remembered.

One thing is different, I was never a fan of armor before, but now I'm rethinking that, as I try and make something work that might live to take advantage of something I am not familiar with, rapid attribute improvement.

Already I've run into one struggle, this notion that you can't save IQ points for talents? That just strikes me as weird.