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<blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 5060488" data-attributes="member: 41584">There's a difference between playing the game, and gaming the game.&nbsp;Your Wizard was using his spells conservatively, not knowing whether or not any given encounter would be the last for the day, and not wanting to fire off all of his bullets in the first fight of the day.&nbsp; He wasn't metagaming.&nbsp;Quite a few of the 'Wizards are OP' threads start out from a different assumption, that the spellcaster is willing to use Quicken, Arcane Spellsurge, etc. to blow off two or three spells per round, and blow all of his high level slots on metamagic enhanced versions of his low-level spells, just to cast them faster, as if the magic was burning him up on the inside and he just had to spit it out as fast as humanly possible.&nbsp;There are even assumptions that spellcasters should have every buff, ever, on the entire party, including multiple flavors of Resist Energy, Overland Flight, Greater Magic Weapon, etc. and still throw multiple spells a round.&nbsp; These thought-exercise wizards think nothing of casting a Quickened Shield with a 5th level slot, to get a +4 to their AC for a few rounds, because they aren't actually playing the game, they are just spouting off about how OP spellcasters are on a messageboard, which requires their hypothetical Wizard to do stuff in a vacuum that would be insanely dumb in an actual game-setting, where they might have a very real need for a 5th level spell 10 rounds later.&nbsp;The hyperbole and overwrought purple prose works against the valid points they do have, and makes their arguments easy to just ignore completely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Set, post: 5060488, member: 41584"] There's a difference between playing the game, and gaming the game. Your Wizard was using his spells conservatively, not knowing whether or not any given encounter would be the last for the day, and not wanting to fire off all of his bullets in the first fight of the day. He wasn't metagaming. Quite a few of the 'Wizards are OP' threads start out from a different assumption, that the spellcaster is willing to use Quicken, Arcane Spellsurge, etc. to blow off two or three spells per round, and blow all of his high level slots on metamagic enhanced versions of his low-level spells, just to cast them faster, as if the magic was burning him up on the inside and he just had to spit it out as fast as humanly possible. There are even assumptions that spellcasters should have every buff, ever, on the entire party, including multiple flavors of Resist Energy, Overland Flight, Greater Magic Weapon, etc. and still throw multiple spells a round. These thought-exercise wizards think nothing of casting a Quickened Shield with a 5th level slot, to get a +4 to their AC for a few rounds, because they aren't actually playing the game, they are just spouting off about how OP spellcasters are on a messageboard, which requires their hypothetical Wizard to do stuff in a vacuum that would be insanely dumb in an actual game-setting, where they might have a very real need for a 5th level spell 10 rounds later. The hyperbole and overwrought purple prose works against the valid points they do have, and makes their arguments easy to just ignore completely. [/QUOTE]

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