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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6670954" data-attributes="member: 5834">Not really. Add up the minutes. It's a minute per spell level, not a minute per spell. It adds up to quite a lot later on.By 6th level you have 4 1st, 3 2nd, 3 3rd. To prepare your list it takes you 19 minutes a day. Eventually at full spell capacity, you'll take 89 minutes to prepare your spell list per day. I was thinking that is a fairly substantial amount of time of preparation time. I was wondering what if someone attacks you while you're preparing spells for that 90 minutes. Would you not get to memorize spells for the rest of the day? Would you only get to have the spells on your list that you managed to memorize up to that point until you took a long rest? Would you default to your previous list unable to change until the next long rest? How does that work?What if you level during an adventure? Do you get to fill that open slot immediately or do you have to wait for a long rest?I decided if I ran it with the possibility of allowing a person to memorize throughout the day, that would completely remove any of my questions. I started to wonder if that was the intent all along. I felt the natural reading of the rule seemed to indicate that allowing a person to prepare a spell on the list throughout the day would work just fine and may very well be intentional because it obviates any problems you might have with memorization/preparation times if you had someone attacked during their prayers or morning study or allow leveling without requiring a long rest.Just seems like the natural reading of the rule with the time investment involved in preparing a spell list.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 6670954, member: 5834"] Not really. Add up the minutes. It's a minute per spell level, not a minute per spell. It adds up to quite a lot later on. By 6th level you have 4 1st, 3 2nd, 3 3rd. To prepare your list it takes you 19 minutes a day. Eventually at full spell capacity, you'll take 89 minutes to prepare your spell list per day. I was thinking that is a fairly substantial amount of time of preparation time. I was wondering what if someone attacks you while you're preparing spells for that 90 minutes. Would you not get to memorize spells for the rest of the day? Would you only get to have the spells on your list that you managed to memorize up to that point until you took a long rest? Would you default to your previous list unable to change until the next long rest? How does that work? What if you level during an adventure? Do you get to fill that open slot immediately or do you have to wait for a long rest? I decided if I ran it with the possibility of allowing a person to memorize throughout the day, that would completely remove any of my questions. I started to wonder if that was the intent all along. I felt the natural reading of the rule seemed to indicate that allowing a person to prepare a spell on the list throughout the day would work just fine and may very well be intentional because it obviates any problems you might have with memorization/preparation times if you had someone attacked during their prayers or morning study or allow leveling without requiring a long rest. Just seems like the natural reading of the rule with the time investment involved in preparing a spell list. [/QUOTE]

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