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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 1348323" data-attributes="member: 6875">Steveroo, you completely misunderstand what I said.I never said -- nor intended to imply -- that the wizard has the whole PHB to select form.But for an investment of downtime and money (and the downtime only has to come in small stints of a few days here, a week there, etc) ... the wizard can buy scrolls of spells he doesn't yet "know", and with them, scribe the new spells into his spellbook.  He is then in aposition to utterly change what sorts of spells he or she prepares on a daily basis; the wizard is then able to have one soprt of "spells for today" list for urban settings, another for travel through the wilderness, yet another for venturing into dank dungeons nd crumbling ruins, etc.And, with sufficient investmentof the wizards share of the loot, and his or her available downtime ... no two of those lists have to bear even a passing resemblance to each other.Meanwhile, the Sorceror knows what he knows, and that's it....And I'm spekaing about this from direct experience, in a low-money, low-down-time campaign (a couple times, we had to stage an outright rebellion out of character, to insist the DM give us some downtime that was longer than 2-3 days at a stretch!).  I was the sorceror (until level 6, when he died and I brought in a half-celestial cleric ... who promptly died, and was replaced with a Necromancer-Loremaster)), the guy across the table from me was the generalist wizard throughout all fifteen-ish levels I played with that group.several times, I watched him assess how encounters were going, decide "okay, I need tochane how I'm handling this", buy maybe 2-3 scrolls of spells he didn't know, and - combined with the 2 free spells from his next level increase - completely re-define himself as a wizard, by utterly rearranging the sorts of spells he prepared each day.Gave the DM noend of fits, when his newest encounter -- carefully constructed to take advantage of some hole or other in the wizard's OLD spell-list patterns, ran face-first into the brick wallof his NEW spell-list concept.And that was the wizard, who had to actually invest, oh, maybe 300gp per character level into expanding his spell selection, on average.  We won't discuss how oftenthe Druid changed her feathers (so to speak) ...</blockquote>

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