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<blockquote data-quote="SweeneyTodd" data-source="post: 4284743" data-attributes="member: 9391">Referring to the big page-filling chart on p.29 of the PHB will help a ton. I had missed that on the first readthrough.That chart shows you the number of at-will, encounter, utility, and daily powers your character has available at any level. It's the same for all classes. The Spellbook class feature just gives you the flexibility to change what goes into those slots.Although... crap. I'm still confused as to how this actually works out. I believe that the guidelines on p. 28 as to when you can gain new powers and/or trade old ones for new ones leads to a hierarchy of powers (so you have powers from various levels). I do think that you'd want to keep that hierarchy since otherwise the wizard would be able to just load his dailies up with the highest level ones in his spellbook; I just can't find where the rules explicitly say that's how it works It just says &quot;You can't prepare the same spell twice&quot;.It's funny, because the WotC customer service bit quoted above works like how I'd expect it to do... but actually looking at what they're saying, I don't see that anywhere in the actual rulebook, and it seems like it'd be a pain to keep track. Heck, I'd be tempted to let them just freely fill their slots out of their spellbook; worst case, it means that for example they could have two lvl 5 dailies at lvl 5 when other classes only get a 1 and a 5. That's a pretty big bonus but I'm not sure if it's overpowering, and it'd make it a lot easier to keep track of this stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SweeneyTodd, post: 4284743, member: 9391"] Referring to the big page-filling chart on p.29 of the PHB will help a ton. I had missed that on the first readthrough. That chart shows you the number of at-will, encounter, utility, and daily powers your character has available at any level. It's the same for all classes. The Spellbook class feature just gives you the flexibility to change what goes into those slots. Although... crap. I'm still confused as to how this actually works out. I believe that the guidelines on p. 28 as to when you can gain new powers and/or trade old ones for new ones leads to a hierarchy of powers (so you have powers from various levels). I do think that you'd want to keep that hierarchy since otherwise the wizard would be able to just load his dailies up with the highest level ones in his spellbook; I just can't find where the rules explicitly say that's how it works It just says "You can't prepare the same spell twice". It's funny, because the WotC customer service bit quoted above works like how I'd expect it to do... but actually looking at what they're saying, I don't see that anywhere in the actual rulebook, and it seems like it'd be a pain to keep track. Heck, I'd be tempted to let them just freely fill their slots out of their spellbook; worst case, it means that for example they could have two lvl 5 dailies at lvl 5 when other classes only get a 1 and a 5. That's a pretty big bonus but I'm not sure if it's overpowering, and it'd make it a lot easier to keep track of this stuff. [/QUOTE]

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