Scales_of_Balance VS WheelsOfProphecy

I was referring to Scales of Balance and random tweaks, if you're not familiar. SoB, I haven't used in awhile; random tweaks includes some nice quality of life stuff I like (goodberries, cure spells bypass deflection, etc).

Scales of Balance: A very large mod with potentially far-reaching changes that I have not tested nearly enough to comment on in detail. Includes an armor overhaul, a feat system, major changes to weapon usability, minor tweaks to Icewind Dale items, removal of class-based potion restrictions, overhauls to racial stat bonuses, changes to saving throws, bonus spells for high int/wis/cha, a complete rework of magic resistance, and much more besides. The readme is extremely thorough: read it first to avoid compatibility issues.

It's part of a mod called Scales of Balance. It's got a lot of other changes too, but I just stuck with the ability score based bonus spells component and ignored the rest as the other stuff changed way too much for me. It does also grant mages bonus spells based on intelligence which could potentially be a bit OP with the extra slots a specialist mage already has.

Check out https://github.com/UnearthedArcana/Scales_of_Balance

Most stats don't really matter especially in an unmodded game. There are mods to make them more significant. The one I use is Scales of Balance, which contains a crap ton of tweaks and is very granular so you can just install what you want.

Wheels of Prophecy in its current state is emphatically not playable. There is a new fork which is supposed to correct most of its errors, but I haven't tested it. All I can say is that the last time I tried to use it, I had cutscenes triggering twice, I had to resort to the console to get things to fire, and it was a gigantic mess that I cannot in good faith recommend. It's a shame, because I liked what I saw, but at present it's just not functional. I would steer clear.