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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 4358691" data-attributes="member: 72317">You just need to hold one of your highest lv spells back in reserve. Which depending on whether you went focused specialist or not, may or may not be such a big deal. I concede there is a difference, but I feel that it is less significant than you believe it to be.Not quite what I meant. My point was that their efficacy is improved when you cast them in addition to the higher lv spells you are normally casting. You don't cast them in place of your higher lv spells - you cast them in addition to your higher lv spells.Lets say my wizard is able to quicken spells (chronocharm, rod of quicken, master specialist conjurer10 etc). Now imagine that I am casting a quickened lower lv spell (~lv1-3) in addition to the higher lv spell each round. Normally, the lower lv spell won't be expected to have much of an impact unless you specially chose spells which do not have saves (such as damage spells like magic missile or scorching ray). You wouldn't bother with spells like grease or glitterdust because their low dcs means they will rarely get through, however useful an effect they may produce on a failed save).Now with your proposed houserule, I can quicken those spells I had previously shunned and still have the desired results, because their heightened dcs means that I will now have a much higher success rate.Because the effectivenss of those lower lv spells improve, so too does your efficacy. Likewise, while the lower DCs of said spells may have discouraged you from casting them in the first place, you will face no such reservations now. Your improved effectiveness comes from casting these extra spells you otherwise would not have cast to begin with, slots which may well have gone to waste at the end of the day unless you fill them all with utility spells and get the chance to use them (like rope trick or fly).I think the impact of your houserule is only more significant at higher lvs, where the disparity between your highest and lowest lv spells becomes all the more apparent. I am not making myself any clearer, am I?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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