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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7273104" data-attributes="member: 996"> Yes, it could.  So, when you finish long rest of 8 hrs, you then append 1 min/spell level of prep time to that 8hrs.  It's trivial when you're prepping first level spells, and there's not much point to prepping a lot of different high levels spells.   Even at 5th, if you prepped mostly 3rd level spells, you'd be at it less than an additional half-hour.  So, at low levels, it's likely to be ignored, and, by the time you reach levels where it might make a big difference will have likely fallen by the wayside.   No, because that's not "when he finishes a long rest," it's 'after he's gone to do some recon.' I'd say that, yes, you could prep fewer spells than you're entitled too, leaving the remaining spells the same as they were the day before - but the rules don't actually say that, they seem to imply that you prep whole slates or nothing.  No, even were I ruling the above, you could not then change any of those remaining spells, nor 'blank out a spot' to prep a spell into later (that was an option in 3e, though, FWIW), because then you'd wouldn't be prepping 'when you finish a short rest.'Under the when=after interpretation, you have to have completed a long rest to prep your spells, it's the only time you get to do it.  The 'while' interpretation is simpler, and means the party doesn't have to wait around for you.  Under the 'while' interpretation, if you decided to prep a lot a high level spells for some unknowable reason, it might cut into the portion of your long rest you'd use for sleeping.......more restrictively, if you counted it against the hour of 'activity' before a long rest is interrupted a 60-spell-level limit might cramp the style of higher level casters, some of the time.(very hypothetically, a 20th level 20 INT wizard who prepped 25 9th level spells - having presumably researched a lot of new 9th level spells for that sole purpose - would be at it for 3hrs 45 min)</blockquote>

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