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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5304157" data-attributes="member: 80487">Next topic: Wizards, Yea or Nay?In 1st ed. AD&D, prismatic spray is a 7th-level illusionist spell, castable (other than from a scroll, wand, etc.) only by a character of at least 14th level. To replace the full allotment of spells requires 10 hours of rest and 17 hours of memorization: a total of 27 hours. Depending on the world in question, a day might be but 24 hours and change.(In 2e, the per-spell component is only 2/3, so it might take about 21 hours.)In 3e, a wizard can learn the spell a level earlier. (The wizard gets automatic free picks from 3e's full corpus of former illusionist and magic-user spells.) A 13th-level 3e wizard can cast 26 spells, or 28 at 14th, versus only 22 for the AD&D illusionist.(The assessment of power is complicated by the 3e caster having one less spell per low spell level and one more per high spell level. There are also the "0-level" spell slots in 3e, the options for which include both former 1st-level spells and cantrips.)Also, the 3e wizard does indeed get to do that each and every day.3e might have been clearer if fighters had been renamed "grogs".</blockquote>