Editing Skip Williams

'''Skip Williams''' is one of the many writers of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]'' alongside [[Monte Cook]] and [[Bruce Cordell]]. He is notable for his "ask the sages" column that was run on [[Wizards of the Coast]]'s website for a time, which covered errata, rules issues, and similar issues of [[Skub]]bery. Many of his clarifications were interesting, if only on a basic level. He also wrote several splatbooks for the system, which run the gamut from entertaining to [[Cheese|absolutely game-breaking]].

He is better known, however, for his [[Munchkin|creative]] interpretation of the rules and for absolutely fucking ''hating'' the Sorcerer class in the game. He is on record for repeatedly voicing his feelings that the Sorcerer "wasn't a proper caster class" and that in breaking with the [[Vancian]] casting system for a more spontaneous spells-per-day model, the Sorcerer was [[Skub|horning in on]] the [[Wizard]]'s gig. According to several affiliated with WOTC, Skip is the primary reason the Sorcerer is so much weaker than the Wizard, with slower spell progression, a general incapacity to take advantage of metamagic feats, and a huge amount of content that blatantly favors the Wizard over the Sorcerer - to the point where almost any book he wrote would openly shaft the Sorcerer in favor of the Wizard. Some of this fuckery was rolled back in 3.5, but a lot remains, such as the Metamagic restrictions and the Sorcerer's complete lack of Charisma-related skills.

The Wizard/Sorcerer splatbook from 3.0, ''Tome and Blood'', is one of the most notorious examples, as of the various prestige classes and items in the splatbook, a huge number of them blatantly favor the Wizard, such as Metamagic rods (which give Wizards free access to a Metamagic feat but mandates that the Sorcerer still spend a full-round action to use them). Of the 15 prestige classes in the book, all but 9 are ''vastly'' easier for a Wizard to acquire than a Sorcerer, one is essentially and one is essentially Wizard exclusive. To elaborate: many of these prestige classes  can be spliced into by level 6 for most, but a Sorcerer would have to be at least level 12 for ''the exact same classes''. The one Prestige Class in the splatbook that is Sorcerer-exclusive also happens to substantially undercut the Sorcerer's spellcasting capabilities; it does not get any additional Spellcaster levels and essentially gains stats better for a combat-capable class.