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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankTrollman" data-source="post: 1194596" data-attributes="member: 14225">This is a difference between 3.5 and 3rd edition.In 3rd edition you could put Awaken onto a Scroll and activate it as a Standard Action (allowing you to Awaken yourself in conjunction with Shapechange).In 3.5 it requires only Limited Wish and Polymorph to Awaken yourself - but the Scroll loop is closed. However, in 3.5 a Scroll of Awaken still takes hours and hours to read, while a scroll of feather Fall is done in a free action.This is all meaningless of course, as a Sorcerer sacrificing a Spell Known is a larger concession than a Wizard sacrificing a spell slot.The Sorcerer only knows 5 1st level spells at 20th level, and is thus only prepared for at most 5 different bizzare circumstances (such as falling). The Wizard, OTOH, has 7 (or even 8 if he has an Intelligence of 28 or more) different 1st level Spell Slots at 20th level, and since none of them are going to be particularly useful in combat they are all going to be emergency and utility spells.The Sorcerer is using up 20% of his first level options to have Feather Fall.It takes less than 15% of a Wizard's first level spell options to have the same ace in the hole.The question isn't "how can a Wizard match a Sorcerer" - it's "how can a Sorcerer match the Wizard?" And the fact is that the answer is that he can't.-Frank</blockquote>