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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dcollins" data-source="post: 1575277" data-attributes="member: 876">I'll make a bit of a defense of Carin's viewpoint, even if this would count as House Rules if we're talking 3rd Edition.- It does intuitively seem like more spells should take more preparation time.- I wasn't that bothered by 1st Ed. prep time -- I could live with 2 days or so for full preparation by a high-level wizard. (Much like the difference in time spent studying for a grade-school test versus a graduate degree final.)- While it might be game-inconvenient, it can make sense in a setting that presumes high-level wizards are not in mortal combat most days of their life (as Carin says, and most fantasy literature bears out). An example: In Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" (p. 4), a wizard named Turjan prepares for an excursion. He's enough level to know prismatic spray, time stop, etc. However, he only prepares 4 spells. Perhaps that's more reasonable in a setting like this -- many wizards only bother to prepare their top-level slots and leave the rest open much of the time.Even so, it looks like Turjan takes a fairly brief peiod of time, not the 9 hours it would take under 1st Ed. Let's say he takes an hour for this preparation. Possible variants might be:- Preparation per spell level takes 2 minutes, or- Preparation per spell level takes 15 minutes, divided by the highest spell level you know.</blockquote>