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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr. Kaze" data-source="post: 1836640" data-attributes="member: 8848">I'm a big fan of spontaneous casting -- like sorcerors, mystics, psions -- so I have a problem with "rare-use" spells which either counter only one effect/situation (Flesh to Stone) or only need to be cast once per day (Hero's Feast).  There are too many other good spells that can be cast a lot for best effect in a variety of situations for people with limited spell availability to go burning slots on limited use spells.  So the existence of spells that are either "You'll only need this once, but..." or "You will only ever use this spell once per day no matter how many daily slots you've got because it's just that powerful" are another factor inherent in the magic system that tips the balance away from the Sorcerors and Mystics in favor of the traditional Wizard and Cleric.  (Thus, in a way, psions are the best spontaneous casters because they're not playing on the same field as conventional magic users.)Traditional prepared magic is fine with traditional low-use spells -- DM does wacky things, PCs to wacky things, great.  The newer 3e spontaneous casting?  Not so much.  So with my bias on the table, I gotta say that I think the low-use spells are a liability to the current game as they maintain an implicit bias for the prepare-slots casters.::Kaze (notes that he's called out a specific problem, but not a solution, so he'll offer that he thinks Hero's Feast should be replaced with a Mass Aid, which would align very precisely to Bull's Strength and Mass Bull's Strength and the like as a 6th level version of a 2nd level spell.)</blockquote>

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