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Message: <blockquote data-quote="apsuman" data-source="post: 1198444" data-attributes="member: 1769">Wally and Sid revisited:IF a level 6 wizard has in his spellbook 10 spells of level 1, 10 spells of level 2 and 10 spells of level 3, one metamagic that incleases a spell by one level and one metamagic feat that increases a spell by 2 levels, I came up with 4,734,275,736,960Combinations to prepare spells.  I ignored cantrips and assumed that in the specialty slots you could have any spell (even though you can not).  This number reflects the every possible combination spell selections, i.e. every spell of level 1 different, 2 the same and the rest different, 3 the same and 2 different, 4 the same, or all 5 the same spell.  I included metamagiced versions of spells, i.e. if every one of the wizard's level 1 spells could be metamagiced by one level he has a potential of 20 different level 2 spells.  Similarly, he has 30 different spells of level 3 (all 3 unmodified, all level 2 meta-ed up one level, and all level 1 spells meta-ed up two levels).My Sorcerer with 4 known spells of level 1, 2 known spells of level 2 and 1 known 3rd level spell, with again one metamagic feat that increases a spell by one level, and one that increases a spell by two levels I came up with :1,835,352,981,504 Combinations.Now, the wizard, Wally here, chooses exactly one of his 4.7 Trillion (US) different combinations every day (assuming he leaves no slots open).Sid on the other hand remains Mr. 1.8 Trillion all morning until he starts casting spells, then he becomes a mere fration of himself only having a Trillion different combinations availabile to him after a spell or two.After each of them casts 4 first level spells, 4 second level spells, and 3 third level spells, Wally has one of each level left and is praying that they fit the situation, but Sid still has 16128 different combinations of spells available to him.Even if they each only had 1 third level spell left, Wally hopes the ONE he picked that morning is the right one.  Sid has 7 different spells he could cast.Now, there is no doubt that in those 4.7 trillion possibilites Wally has a few, perhaps a couple of hundred million of them, that are ABSOLUTELY PERFECT for the day.  But he probably also has more than a few, perhaps several hundred million of them, that are absolutely awful.  Sid has what he has, and he knows this the next time he levels up too.g!</blockquote>

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