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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7476430" data-attributes="member: 6775031">The rules in the book are a pale reflection of their underlying reality. The only thing that the players can see are a couple of numbers in some books. The characters are the ones who actually live in that world. If the character is in a position where they would be choosing between spells, then they should know perfectly well what options will be available to them later on. Fireball and Burning Hands are both discrete spells that exist within the world, and a wizard may well decide to not study the latter now because they plan to study the former at a later date.The fantasy genre which D&D represents is a post-Enlightenment construct, which may well contain anachronistically rational characters. Whether or not the default assumptions support that, I would expect it to be handled at the Setting level. Historical fantasy, such as Pendragon, may be held to different standards.</blockquote>