D&D General Proportion of Spells

Do you find you don't use most of your known/prepared spells?

  • Yes. I only use a couple spells out of all that I have available.

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Depends on the level.

Lower levels, I use all of them.
As I go higher, I have more and more niche spells.
Once I get past 15 or so spells, I might forget I have one prepared.
 

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When I play my ranger it’s very similar to your experience. But those utility spells that pop up every once in a while are super useful - the detect spells, rope trick, and lesser restoration in particular.
 

Playing a hexblade warlock, there's a lot of spells on my list that don't end up getting used.

Part of it is the pain of Concentration being a little too limiting. I understand its in place to prevent the excesses back in 3E, but sometimes it's just a bit too constraining, and in some cases (like 2014 Barkskin) silly and punitive.
maybe a solution is to be able to concentrate on as many spell levels as is spell level of your highest spell slot.
I.E. 17th level caster can concentrate on single 9th level spell, 9 1st level spells, 3 3rd level spells or any combination totaling up to 9th level.

if that would be too many spell, there can always be tier limit;
1 spell for levels 1-4
2 spells for levels 5-10
3 spells for levels 11-16
4 spells for levels 17+

total spell level still limited to highest spell slot available.
 

I have almost the opposite problem. I mean sure, there some spells I have prepared that get used more regularly and some are more situational (though I do try to shake it up just to try out new spells). But I always feel like I can't prepare enough spells. I would like to use more variety in combat, but there are only so many things I can prepare. Recently I got an opportunity (time and money) to make scrolls, which allows me to have some more rarely used non-ritual utility spells available, but scrolls aren't cheap enough to regularly use for combat spells.
 

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