Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9781195" data-attributes="member: 7034611">but it doesn’t, you are not spending your first round casting it already, you do something else, and in, say your third encounter, you have enough points to cast it in round oneYes, it is a gamist element in that it was designed to achieve a specific result in the game mechanics, that does not mean you cannot come up with an in-game rationale or just handwave it, see belowAlso, there are tons of things in D&D that have no explanation either, they just are. The only difference is that you are familiar with the D&D ones and do not question them.To just stay with spell casting and what comes to my mind immediately:Why can a Wizard cast an infinite amount of cantrips but does no longer have enough ‘energy’ to cast even a level one spell?Why does a 5th level Wizard have 4/3/2 spell slots and cannot cast 3 third level spells in a row by sacrificing some of the lower level slots.</blockquote>