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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1594352" data-attributes="member: 259">I played a druid for a long time, and I would definitely stay with the non-spontaneous version if given the choice. 1) In most parties, druids are secondary healers, and therefore need some access to the healing spells; this would seriously limit their spell slot choices.2) Other spells, especialy animal growth and flame strike and produce flame and wall of thorns, are so awesomely awesome that a druid more or less has to take them.3) Druid spells are often weaker than a cleric's or wizard's spells, but their strength is in their flexibility:  if a druid knows (for exapmle that they'll be fighting fire elementals, they can prepare Quench, the single best bang-for-your-buck spell in fighting such creatures (huge shapeable AoE, no save, great damage).  Similarly, they can prepare Entangle when going through the woods without having to sacrifice anything when they're in the dungeon. That said, the weird flexibility of the druid works in another way as well:  by midlevels, a smart druid with access to a scrollscriber really ought to plunk some cash into getting scrolls made of the specialty spells (the ones that are extremely useful in rare situations and useless in most situations).  If a druid is going to have access to cash and scrollscribers early on, they might build up the scroll library early and thereby function well with limited spontaneous casting. In such a case, the druid ought to consider getting the following scrolls, at least: 1st:  obscuring mist, speak with animals, pass without trace2nd:  lesser restoration, soften earth and stone3rd:  remove disease, stoneshape, quench (written by a tenth-level caster)4th:  antivermin shell I'm sure I've forgotten some, but those are the ones I'd recommend.Daniel</blockquote>

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