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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6821542" data-attributes="member: 996">Quite possibly, but it was still cloning a game with all it's core stuff available in an SRD.  However much work that might be, it'd be a great deal /more/ work to clone a game with it's core material still copyright protected.But, even in the latter case, like a 3.5 Sorcerer, he can cast the best spell he does have access to, rather than, like a 3.5/earlier Wizard, find himself with never-needed spells still prepared at the end of the day.  That essentially narrows the gap between the 16-20 or so spells-at-10th 3.x wizard and the "vastly less" 15-spells-at-10th 5e Wizard. 15 vs 3, that's a 400% increase.  The 5e wizard is just lot closer to the 3.5 wizard in gross spellcasting resources.  Neo-Vancian casting means that he's also much more flexible than both 3.5 and 4e.And, notoriously, D&D generally gets played through about 10th level.  But it is reined way in from 32 spells plus maybe a dozen bonus spells from crazy INT, all the way down to 22.  That's better than half-again, could even be double.  Of course, compared to 4e, that's 22 spells with supreme flexibility vs 4 dailies, exactly once each.  5x the resources.  Porting from 4e to 5e just necessarily requires some serious upgrades to keep up with that.</blockquote>