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<blockquote data-quote="ccooke" data-source="post: 7981348" data-attributes="member: 6695890">I would definitely not allow this spell. There are much more limited variants I would allow, but nothing this general.Firstly, limited spell selection is one of the ways the power of casters has been curtailed in 5e. Simply negating that, even if the wording was corrected and it did always cost a spell slot one level higher, is overpowered.Secondly, as written it utterly negates the power balance of multiclassing for casters. With this spell, a Wizard 5/Cleric 5 can cast 4th level spells from both class lists using their 5th level spell slots.There are, as I said, cases where I would allow things like it. The recent psionic UA has a good example - the ability to (in advance) get access to (a limited set of) spells, a limited times per day. Other examples that I'd find interesting:* Something like the 3e anyspell - a Channel Divinity for a Cleric domain specialising in some form of magic, allowing you to cast any spell from a set list once per short rest, with some limitations (like casting time). Maybe you always cast the spell as a ritual, taking 10 minutes.* Some more generalist Wizard subclass, with a once-per-long-rest bonus action that let them swap one prepared spell for another in their spellbook.There are probably more. Generally, I'd say - limited to changing prepared spells, or temporarily adding a new prepared spell, limited in number of times you can do it per day and limited to spells that you have some reason to be more tied to than just &quot;they're on the class list&quot; - a spellbook, a patron or deity actively feeding you knowledge, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ccooke, post: 7981348, member: 6695890"] I would definitely not allow this spell. There are much more limited variants I would allow, but nothing this general. Firstly, limited spell selection is one of the ways the power of casters has been curtailed in 5e. Simply negating that, even if the wording was corrected and it did always cost a spell slot one level higher, is overpowered. Secondly, as written it utterly negates the power balance of multiclassing for casters. With this spell, a Wizard 5/Cleric 5 can cast 4th level spells from both class lists using their 5th level spell slots. There are, as I said, cases where I would allow things like it. The recent psionic UA has a good example - the ability to (in advance) get access to (a limited set of) spells, a limited times per day. Other examples that I'd find interesting: * Something like the 3e [I]anyspell[/I] - a Channel Divinity for a Cleric domain specialising in some form of magic, allowing you to cast any spell from a set list once per short rest, with some limitations (like casting time). Maybe you always cast the spell as a ritual, taking 10 minutes. * Some more generalist Wizard subclass, with a once-per-long-rest bonus action that let them swap one prepared spell for another in their spellbook. There are probably more. Generally, I'd say - limited to changing [I]prepared[/I] spells, or temporarily adding a new prepared spell, limited in number of times you can do it per day and limited to spells that you have some reason to be more tied to than just "they're on the class list" - a spellbook, a patron or deity actively feeding you knowledge, etc. [/QUOTE]

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