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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LonePaladin" data-source="post: 3856375" data-attributes="member: 6963">Actually, it is. The rule that applies to all spellcasters who use spell slots is this: when you prepare your spells or otherwise renew your spell slots, any that you have used within the past eight hours are unavailable.This is meant to prevent spellcasters from waking up in the morning, dumping all of their spells (say, the cleric converting all his spells into healing), then simply re-preparing all those spells again. The problem lies in the timing issue. If you prep your spells in the morning, it's straightforward: anything you used during the night still counts as being used.What they should've done was included a statement that these slots can be filled again once that 8-hour time passes. A little interpretation of the rules allows this — when you do your preparations, simply elect to ignore those slots at the time, and take a second preparation later in the day to fill them.But, since it wasn't clearly spelled out to work this way, I've seen DMs who refuse this. (I don't tend to play spellcasters with these types.)That doesn't quite make sense. Are you looking for an all-day effect? If you are, and are high enough to make the spell last all day, it doesn't matter when you cast it. Preparing spells doesn't remove ones that are in effect at the time.F'rinstance, your noontime druid casts longstrider in the morning, expecting to get about eight or nine hours out of it. (The exact time doesn't matter.) When noon comes around, he does his usual spell preparation; the slot that longstrider occupied is unavailable at that time, but the spell is still running.</blockquote>

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