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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6717696" data-attributes="member: 1465">It was pretty much like that in the early playtest rules!I remember that during the first playtest packets, it was theorized the possibility that 5e would have a different (at least partially) spellcasting method for each spellcaster class.Eventually they decided instead to have the same method for using slots, and differentiate only in terms of preparation (but if you really look at it... it's not that spontaneous casters have much of an edge in 5e, since their number of spells known is quite close to how many they would prepare if they had to follow the preparation rules). I think that this decision might have had something to do also with the multiclassing rules... With the current preparation rules, it's very easy to keep prepared spells separate but share all slots among your spellcasting classes. If Wizards were still Vancian, you'd have to keep also slots separate, some filled with Wizard spells and others empty.</blockquote>