Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
All the changes I might want to make to the fighter class are covered by the Level Up version. Not so the wizard (although Level Up improves that class too).That's fine. You do you. But I was answering for me, and responding to someone other than you.
And all three of us, then, are apt to have highly different opinions of what constitutes "realism", and why we want one bit of realism, but are willing to discard others. I find those discussions to be unproductive, so I am not going there.
But, in the end, if you want your fighters "realistic", that suggests changes to the fighter, not to the wizard.
I still think too much attention is paid here to nerfing the wizard. Other casters should feel the pain too. Sorcerers have access to nearly all the same spells. Clerics and druids have better access to their spell list than either.