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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 7570362" data-attributes="member: 15882">[MENTION=6919838]5ekyu[/MENTION]I was going to quote you but this saves space.I'm not disagreeing with you, I was partially agreeing with you.  I think it really is campaign dependent and that isn't house-rules.  That's just setting.  The usefulness of a wizard is his/her flexibility, so having more spells than the base lets you do more of what the wizard is good at.  Let's look at a 17th level wizard.  Assuming they took only 8th level spells at 15th and 16th and not any of the lower levels spells they missed out on at lower levels, they only have 4 of  17  8th level spells available.At 17th they get 2 of 15 9th level spells.Let's say a particular adventure would be easier or necessitate(from the caster's perspective) the purchase of a different 8th level spell they do not currently own.  They can wait until they level up or they can try to find the spell they want.  How valuable that spell is depends on its rarity and its rarity depends on how many other wizards within of the appropriate level exist.  And this goes to what you said earlier:  In this case, it's just saving the Wizard time.  It would be more convenient to have that spell now and not in a month or year or whatever the time it takes to level up (assuming you weren't hoping to use your free spells on something else).But factors like, 'Is there a 15-20th level wizard in every major town?'  play in to the value.  It'll be easy to find/trade/buy a spell. But, if there is only 5 in the entire country?  That 8th level spell is going to be harder to track down and it will probably be a bigger expense if you don't have a spell you can trade.    This isn't house-ruling, this is Campaign Setting.  If there are only 5 level 17+wizards in the country then their combined library might not have the spell you seek.  So, now, where do you find the spell?It is possible that some wizards would be perfectly happy to only own the spells they get for free but I'm not sure that's the standard.  So, I think there would be demand and I think that demand increases as you level up and want those useful high level spells.</blockquote>

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