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The simplest and most important reason. because they can. the logical reason is economics as others have said, but the ultimate reason is that they can

I posted a decent guideline for seperating spells into per-encounter/perday/at-will. its somewhere in here Obviously some spells are on a individual basis, such as the orb spells. as they provide de-buffs they have to be per-encounter, unlike -most- single target blasts.

yep. Well that and the fact that they have to spend money on that shield. for an example: 2-handed half-orc fighter 10 28 point buy: According to the DMGs wealth by level (p135) we have 49000 gold. Full-Plate +3 (~11k), Greatsword +3 (~18k), belt of str +4 (16k) Ring of Prot +1 (2k) some...

@Primitive_Screwhead I don't see a problem with shields obscuring the "sweet spot" simple because they greatly reduce the damage that the character can do (about 60%) in most cases. so a +5 heavy steel shield is a 35% chance to block effectively. so you lose 60% of your damage for 35% chance...

add 1/2 char level to AC. to bring atk bonus more in line there is a pretty basic system for doing the spell casting, just by inference from random articles. no bonus spells for higher stat modifier. this doesn't work that well with sorcs. Vancien slots are per-day spells, but gain no benefit...

I'm fairly certain that chris perkins mentioned talent trees as in 4e in one of the podcast/interview things. I think it was a gamer zero interview.

I don't know if this thread is still active, but since I thought a shadow line would be interesting I made it. I'm not certain of the power level, but I didn't see anything I couldn't do more effectively with the summon monster line. I was originally going to make this with the astral...

The differences are in the options. High level summon monster spells give you a ton of defensive powers (SR, DR, ect.) and generally useful spell-like's. (ex: summon monster 3 can summon a dretch, who can then cast stinking cloud, which is a 3rd level spell, just with a worse save.) these...