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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 7821798" data-attributes="member: 6775477">IIRC, a spell is always the level of the spell slot you use to cast it, but there are several spells that grant no benefit for using a higher level slot. This really only matters for Dispel Magic and Counterspell AFAIK though.They were going to change this in 1E, but the terms had become so ingrained during OD&D that they were kept, creating a never ending cycle of "we can't change it because everyone knows it, but new players get confused."For players, other orders might be more useful, but for DMs alphabetical is necessary (unless they indexed every spell by name) since several monsters cast spells without using slots.I believe they've acdmitted that failure, but reprints are somewhat expensive. I know they released PDFs listing and marking Rituals.</blockquote>