D&D 3E/3.5 3.5 Sorcerer Nerf?

[Felonius]

Who says that "fill a spell slot" means preparing?

I say it means put a spell in there for use as per the general definition of the word "fill". This is done instantaneously by a Sorcerer.

<snipped a good explanation>

If the authors had meant to change such a significant aspect of Sorcerers (and Bards), they would have explicitly put in an unambiguous sentence of:

"A bard or sorcerer cannot put a lower level spell into a higher level spell slot."

They did not do this, hence, I suspect you are making a mountain out of a mole hill here.

Ok, I'm finally convinced now.

Phew! What a relief, as I really like sorcerers... All I have to do now is to show this to other DMs over here...

Although I am still quite annoyed that WotC deleted a perfectly unambiguous explanation from the sorcerer class description...

Thank you to everyone who answered!

- F

 

[KarinsDad]

Although I am still quite annoyed that WotC deleted a perfectly unambiguous explanation from the sorcerer class description...

Agreed.

Rule ambiguity sucks!