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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 3319200" data-attributes="member: 3051">My group has actually taken this a bit further.  We've been playing a homebrew system where all the really low-level stuff can be cast more or less at will, for any of the caster classes.  (It increases as you go up, and also increases more within your specialty, so a Wizard that can cast 8th or 9th level spells can pretty much cast level 0-1 spells at will and even level 2 within his specialty.)It's worked really well, in practice, although it's drastically altered certain points of balance.  For instance, once a cure spell can be cast at will (even cure minor wounds), there's really no more issue of "downtime healing"; as long as there's a little time between encounters, the party will enter the next encounter fully healed.  Also, the group becomes drastically stronger if certain low-level buffs (especially ones like bear's endurance) can be cast at will.  (One possible fix is to say that the "free" aspect of these buffs only applies when you cast them on yourself, a la the Psionic versions.)My point is, if you make the change you suggested, I think it'll work fine.  The only caveat is that certain low-level spells become unbalanced when cast at will, so you might need to tweak the spell lists a little, or at least alter a few spells' effects.  But actually, we had LONG ago house-ruled that read magic and detect magic could be cast at will by all spellcasters, if only to keep them from filling up every 0-level slot with those spells.</blockquote>

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