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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9780543" data-attributes="member: 93670">I wouldn't agree with that bolded bit because of how it actually played at the table.  Classes either fell into one of two buckets.  Either they had far more spells they could choose from while doing prep (ie wizard and cleric due to spell book and how divine prep worked) or they were like sorcerer with more slots but a much more limited selection of spells known on top of a more limited selection of spells they could choose to know.  At the end of the adventuring day (especially as levels advanced) both types tendes to have a bunch of unused slots.  Spells known classes likely had some unused lower level spell slots just because they lacked the spell versatility to fill them with a more niche spell that could have been useful outside of combat or because they chose more powerful higher level nukes during the combats where they cast spell(s). Prepared casters might have something like the cleric's ability to sub in cure spells on the fly but that only goes as far as hp might be needed and both prepared casters were likely to have a bunch of uncast prepared spells if any level simply because they prepared some niche spell like n+1 lesser restoration n+1 web spells or whatever and didn't need as many as they thought would be needed</blockquote>