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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8774414" data-attributes="member: 7006">Heh... well, I'd say the big difference between then and now was that even though those spells were in the game... no one barely ever took them because they just weren't very good options compared to Clerics and Druids needing to usually take nothing but healing spells and Wizards needing as much AoE as possible to deal with the massive combat threats that DMs threw at them all the time.  When you had to earmark every single spell you wanted into each spell slot and you had no options to change it until the next morning's rest... I think more often than not players said to themselves "Having another casting of Fireball today will ultimately have a better chance of being needed than Create Food and Water".So it's actually part of 5E's casting system that allows spells like LTH and Goodberry to be used nowadays... because you can prepare it for little cost (just one of your myriad number of prepared spells) and then if you need it, great!  But if not... then you can just keep casting that Fireball as much as you need instead.</blockquote>