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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9316518" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Sure, it isn't the end of the world. But... is it fun? Is it fun to think "Well, do I need to cast sleep once today or twice?" Because what ends up happening is people just default to the safest, blandest, most repetitive options. They won't pick a quirky spell, or a spell that may be useful in the right situation, they will pick the most guaranteed useful thing. This already is happening in 5e. I've played a lot of clerics and unless I KNEW we were not going to be dealing with combat or that we would be dealing with an interrogation, I never prepared Zone of Truth. Which means that any time we are say, delving a dungeon and unexpectedly running into a situation where that spell would be useful... I never have it. Vancian casting is EVEN WORSE about this, because now I don't just need to decide to bring Zone of Truth, but I would need to guess how many times I'll find Guiding Bolt useful compared to Shield of Faith or Bless. If I do prepare Zone of Truth do I prepare one less casting of Pass without a Trace? Or do I drop a casting of Invisibility (Trickery Domain, btw)? What will I need? There is no way to know, so I might as well default to the most broadly useful spells the most times.</blockquote>