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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9048644" data-attributes="member: 93670">What flexibility are you referring to, can you elaborate?&nbsp; The neovancian(?) Style used in 5e does more to eliminate the opportunity cost of preparing a niche spell over some other spell or having some allotment of a given spell instead of a different allotment than adding flexibility.&nbsp; Scrolls were always a thing for flexibility, they just had a cost in terms of time gold and sometimes container interactions or DC reductions from using a scroll instead of slot.The further a PC gets up in levels that opportunity cost removal gets more apparent.&nbsp; You don't have a PC prepping a small number of high level spells that depends on their high level slots and dedicating those slots to that combo of spells no matter if they are useful or not. Now you have a PC prepping all of the high level spells that could be useful and using them in whatever ratio is useful.&nbsp; That didn't happen before because the opportunity cost for high level spell scrolls was pretty significant and a possible DC drop that went with it might make a given spell not so worthy of scribing.Late edit: they did the same opportunity cost removal to martials by allowing movement weapon switching and the option to pause mid attack chain to stare at the gm waiting for some kind of status update before deciding how to continue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9048644, member: 93670"] What flexibility are you referring to, can you elaborate? The neovancian(?) Style used in 5e does more to eliminate the opportunity cost of preparing a niche spell over some other spell or having some allotment of a given spell instead of a different allotment than adding flexibility. Scrolls were always a thing for flexibility, they just had a cost in terms of time gold and sometimes container interactions or DC reductions from using a scroll instead of slot. The further a PC gets up in levels that opportunity cost removal gets more apparent. You don't have a PC prepping a small number of high level spells that depends on their high level slots and dedicating those slots to that combo of spells no matter if they are useful or not. Now you have a PC prepping all of the high level spells that [I]could[/I] be useful and using them in whatever ratio is useful. That didn't happen before because the opportunity cost for high level spell scrolls was pretty significant and a possible DC drop that went with it might make a given spell not so worthy of scribing. Late edit: they did the same opportunity cost removal to martials by allowing movement weapon switching and the option to pause mid attack chain to stare at the gm waiting for some kind of status update before deciding how to continue. [/QUOTE]

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