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<blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 1326547" data-attributes="member: 545">I do not know if 3.5 changed, but in 3.0 I took the controversial minority opinion that one should follow the letter of the rules as written (as long as no one is playing headband swapping games).&nbsp; Following the best guess spirit of the rules only makes things more complicated in this case.I would rule that you do not lose any prepped spells, but you must always stay within the limits of your spells per day when casting any spell.That means the poor victimized wizard can cast fewer spells that day, but his spell selection may be larger than normally makes sense for someone of his present Int score.&nbsp; So you wizard may have two prepped 5th levels spells while only being allowed to cast one that day.&nbsp; Stranger still, if the wizard lost his spellbook too, he may burn every spell slot legally available for casting today and a have a couple spells still handy the next day.My reasoning is (1) it is strictly following the rules, and (2) alternative answers require making spell slot accounting rules from whole cloth.&nbsp; I do not think added bookkeeping can be justified for every instance that any spellcaster steps in and out of an Antimagic Field.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ridley's Cohort, post: 1326547, member: 545"] I do not know if 3.5 changed, but in 3.0 I took the controversial minority opinion that one should follow the letter of the rules as written (as long as no one is playing headband swapping games). Following the best guess spirit of the rules only makes things more complicated in this case. [i]I would rule that you do not lose any prepped spells, but you must always stay within the limits of your spells per day when casting any spell.[/i] That means the poor victimized wizard can cast fewer spells that day, but his spell selection may be larger than normally makes sense for someone of his present Int score. So you wizard may have two prepped 5th levels spells while only being allowed to cast one that day. Stranger still, if the wizard lost his spellbook too, he may burn every spell slot legally available for casting today and a have a couple spells still handy the next day. My reasoning is (1) it is strictly following the rules, and (2) alternative answers require making spell slot accounting rules from whole cloth. I do not think added bookkeeping can be justified for every instance that any spellcaster steps in and out of an Antimagic Field. [/QUOTE]

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