Wizards and Slings

[AnimeTheCat]

Am I crazy? I could have sworn Wizards got sling proficiency... did I make that up or am I confusing that with an earlier edition?

[Venger]

wizards in 3.x have never been proficient with slings. I'm not sure how weapon proficiencies worked in older editions, but due to how granular weapon proficiencies were between the classes, I wouldn't be surprised if wizard lacked it there as well.

[AnimeTheCat]

I'm wracking my brain and I'm really thinking I'm just crazy. Maybe back in pools of radiance for the NES/DOS wizards could use slings in that game but... I think I just remembered wrong... That's unfortunate.

[DrMotives]

It definitely was a thing in earlier editions, I played tons of 2e wizards. They could use daggers, staves, slings, and darts. Those old SSI Forgotten Realms/Krynn games had wizards using slings too.

[Keld Denar]

Baldor's Gate and other Infinity Engine games (IWD, BG2, etc) got slings as well.

EDIT: Because they were based on the 2e rule set.