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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6491807" data-attributes="member: 92511">Something I've done in the past (and there's no game/rules justification for it, but if you're willing to houserule/homebrew) is have a 1st level spell slot count as 2 cantrips worth of &quot;spell power.&quot; If you want more cantrips, you sacrifice a 1st level spell slot to know/have prepared 2 cantrip/0 level spells. Or any spell slot...if you want to swap out a 2nd level slot, you can prepare 4 additional cantrips, etc... I would similarly houserule there's nothing stopping you from recording whatever you want into your spellbook, other than time, money, and opportunity (having the cantrip/spell to copy in the first place). Swap out which you &quot;prepare&quot; day-to-day, following the spell table for how many, but allowing them at will.Alternately, if you want to adhere to the spirit of the rules more closely, keep/follow the table for your number of &quot;spells known.&quot; Those are your &quot;at-will.&quot; Then let the caster use/cast, like, +Int. mod. more cantrips per day as normally prepared [cast once per preparation] (that they have in the spellbooks!), not unlimited/at will.This, obviously, is giving the spellcaster more [though I would submit, negligible] power, whereas swapping out leveled slots at a 2(cantrips) for 1(first level) does not actually &quot;imbalance&quot; the spell power of the caster.Of course, I'm one who's never had a problem with or understood the hullabaloo/hate around &quot;prepared/memorized a.k.a. &quot;Vancian&quot; spell use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 6491807, member: 92511"] Something I've done in the past (and there's no game/rules justification for it, but if you're willing to houserule/homebrew) is have a 1st level spell slot count as 2 cantrips worth of "spell power." If you want more cantrips, you sacrifice a 1st level spell slot to know/have prepared 2 cantrip/0 level spells. Or any spell slot...if you want to swap out a 2nd level slot, you can prepare 4 additional cantrips, etc... I would similarly houserule there's nothing stopping you from recording whatever you want into your spellbook, other than time, money, and opportunity (having the cantrip/spell to copy in the first place). Swap out which you "prepare" day-to-day, following the spell table for how many, but allowing them at will. Alternately, if you want to adhere to the spirit of the rules more closely, keep/follow the table for your number of "spells known." Those are your "at-will." Then let the caster use/cast, like, +Int. mod. more cantrips per day as normally prepared [cast once per preparation] (that they have in the spellbooks!), not unlimited/at will. This, obviously, is giving the spellcaster more [though I would submit, negligible] power, whereas swapping out leveled slots at a 2(cantrips) for 1(first level) does not actually "imbalance" the spell power of the caster. Of course, I'm one who's never had a problem with or understood the hullabaloo/hate around "prepared/memorized a.k.a. "Vancian" spell use. [/QUOTE]

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