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<blockquote data-quote="Mort" data-source="post: 384167" data-attributes="member: 762">Your post ignores several responsesAs several people have stated &quot;fire and forget&quot; is no longer the mechanic. You prepare the majority of the spell ahead of time and store the remainder for when you have to cast it. As such, you are not &quot;forgetting&quot; the spell at all you just don't have the proper means to cast it again (you can repeat the words and the gestures but they're only part of the equation).As a matter of fact the core rules even give wizards another option - blank spell slots. If you want to, you do not have to prepare all of your spells ahead of time but it takes MUCH longer to cast the spell (15 minutes I believe).Besides, I don't think doing it another way would be better - just different. For example if you want to simulate &quot;strain&quot; have the spell do temporary con damage (recoverable at 1/hr) - or even 1.5xCon damage. That will simulate fatigue nicely (and will have the Dragonlance effect that high level spells can potentially kill the caster from strain alone), though somehow I don't see too many people flocking to this idea.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mort, post: 384167, member: 762"] [b]Your post ignores several responses[/b] As several people have stated "fire and forget" is no longer the mechanic. You prepare the majority of the spell ahead of time and store the remainder for when you have to cast it. As such, you are not "forgetting" the spell at all you just don't have the proper means to cast it again (you can repeat the words and the gestures but they're only part of the equation). As a matter of fact the core rules even give wizards another option - blank spell slots. If you want to, you do not have to prepare all of your spells ahead of time but it takes MUCH longer to cast the spell (15 minutes I believe). Besides, I don't think doing it another way would be better - just different. For example if you want to simulate "strain" have the spell do temporary con damage (recoverable at 1/hr) - or even 1.5xCon damage. That will simulate fatigue nicely (and will have the Dragonlance effect that high level spells can potentially kill the caster from strain alone), though somehow I don't see too many people flocking to this idea. [/QUOTE]

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