D&D 5E (2014) How many times in an adventuring day does your party spellcaster cast a cantrip spell?

[Spellslinging Sellsword]

Think about what spells your party members cast during any given day of adventuring. How often are they casting cantrips?

 

[payn]

If following strictly the 6-8 encounters per day guidance, then id say 11-15X. Though, we didnt tend to have that many combats, so I chose 6-10. Thats combat cantrips and maybe a few instances of utility trips.

 

[mellored]

What level?

Because they happen a lot at level 1.
Pretty rarely at level 12.

 

[Distracted DM]

Light, so now no one has to worry about a hand for a torch. Mage Hand to handle simple dungeon inconveniences. Guidance, for every single skill check that the GM will OK it for.
These happen very frequently; if you add in attack cantrips, and figure the "average adventuring day" like payn mentioned, then 11-15.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Also class. Warlock casts more cantrips, even at high level.

I would estimate that for warlock and EK about 2/3 of all spells cast are cantrips. As already mentioned, for others it decreases with level.

I couldn’t say how many per day, since we have no fixed number of encounters, it varies wildly.

 

[Clint_L]

Is there a cleric or warlock in the party? If yes, then my answer is approximately one bazillion.

My character: "I need a short rest to go to the little adventurer's room."
Cleric: "Guidance."

 

[Spellslinging Sellsword]

I was just looking at the old BECMI and AD&D 1E tables and trying to figure out if what difference in casting spells at the table with at-will cantrips available. So I guess no particular class or level per se, but yeah I can see levels 1-10 vs a level 20 caster being different.

 

[Chaltab]

Strongly depends on the caster.

 

[Shiroiken]

Obviously it depends on level and caster type. In general, I feel about a dozen or two times per adventuring day is about right. We tend towards more encounters per day, however, averaging about 6 combats and 3 exploration encounters per adventuring day (social encounters vary too much to give an average).

 

[tetrasodium]

Depends on a lot of factors, level and build/game style especially.
Imon some level though I want to say "too often" because I think that getting away from charges wands of past editions detracts from the game by robbing casters of important incentives tobe excited inthe prospect of finding treasure