Shoug, thanks for such a well reasoned critique. I want to come back to a couple of your other points later, but it's late and this may be the most relevant:
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Originally Posted by Shoug
Do you think that RAW starting wizards are too weak? If you do, all of this discussion of mana limits and whatnot makes sense. I personally don't think the original rules for wizards failed so catastrophically that I feel the need to give them 1000+(200*IQ) free XP upon character creation.
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In a word, yes. I think starting wizards are too weak, and that's the main reason I'm a proponent of this whole idea. I like some of the other work-arounds for that problem that others have proposed as well, but favor this one for a few reasons I've mentioned here and there in my other posts.
I would never go so far as to say the original rules for wizards failed catastrophically. In fact, when my group came up with our house rule to use IQ-based mana to power spells, we made it a player's option to use that or a ST based wizard as in the RAW, and most of us including myself still used ST-based spell casting. So the World didn't end!