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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6153600" data-attributes="member: 1465">To be honest, I would prefer not to have that rule... it doesn't add much to the game, except the general notion that "only the most clever" (or whatever) can cast spells of a certain level. That's not a problem, but the problem was that 100% of the spellcaster just HAD to have the required stat. I've never seen any player accepting to play a spellcaster who didn't have the stat maximized for this, because having the highest spells level unavailable to you is just unacceptable. OTOH, if stat only affects the spells effects, it's not such an absolute must-have.The second problem was that in theory, in 3e every time you get ability damage to your spellcasting stat, you should remember that maybe you cannot cast your highest levels spells. This is IMO an interesting occurrence in the game, but most time it happened, nobody remembered, and when someone remembered, the spellcasting player typically hated that. Anyway this is not going to happen in 5e because ability damage is out.</blockquote>