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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 9177755" data-attributes="member: 996">Yeah, some spells are highly situational.  The more versatility casters have in bringing the best spell for the situation, the less of a mitigating factor that is.  TSR era, with everyone memorizing into slots and scrolls mostly found treasure, it was a consideration.  3e with spontaneous and prepped casters, make/buy wands and wizards scribing spells from first level, even the most situational spells might sit on a scroll for a while, until that blue moon rose.  5e, with everyone casting spontaneously & having at-will cantrips, but no make/buy?  It's an awfully high degree of flexibility - but it can't be quite as nuts as a 3e batman wizard, with every spell he doesn't habitually prepare on a scroll - tho, 5e.2014 does let you cast rituals from your book, and 5e.2024 playtest has tested a mechanic that lets you swap a prepped spell in 1 min. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure    :unsure:"  data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" />And, that case has been made, prettymuch every edition, and next ed, a problem spell or few get nerfed, and a few more emerge or come back ... not always, like, oh, they were always that way, now it shows, I mean, like, what 5e did to Tiny Hut.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f633.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!    :oops:"  data-smilie="10"data-shortname=":oops:" /></blockquote>

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