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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 9015556" data-attributes="member: 6901101"><p>Ok. Let's look at the official adventures. Seems like some of them have many options open to non-combat. But the aggregate? You are correct: Roleplay, explore, fight is the common chronological loop. Yet, for some tables, even when completing official adventures, they still only fight once an adventuring day. Other tables the DM pushes them to do more. So the more frequent and less frequent a spell is, becomes a whole lot less relevant to those that only fight once a day. Take this, and add to it, the sheer number of spells a wizard gets, and you are looking at something that might appear wasteful, but isn't. In fact, it's not even a ripple in the wastefulness category. It's the fighter that uses their second wind when they didn't need to. No one will remember they did that. What they will remember is when they were the only one standing and used their second wind to stay alive and kill the bad guy. A wizard at 8th level has 15 types of second wind. Choosing one wrong one for several sessions won't mean a thing in the big picture. But, the one time it works, it will mean something. Leave their other 14 choices to things that work more often.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Scott Christian, post: 9015556, member: 6901101"] Ok. Let's look at the official adventures. Seems like some of them have many options open to non-combat. But the aggregate? You are correct: Roleplay, explore, fight is the common chronological loop. Yet, for some tables, even when completing official adventures, they still only fight once an adventuring day. Other tables the DM pushes them to do more. So the more frequent and less frequent a spell is, becomes a whole lot less relevant to those that only fight once a day. Take this, and add to it, the sheer number of spells a wizard gets, and you are looking at something that might appear wasteful, but isn't. In fact, it's not even a ripple in the wastefulness category. It's the fighter that uses their second wind when they didn't need to. No one will remember they did that. What they will remember is when they were the only one standing and used their second wind to stay alive and kill the bad guy. A wizard at 8th level has 15 types of second wind. Choosing one wrong one for several sessions won't mean a thing in the big picture. But, the one time it works, it will mean something. Leave their other 14 choices to things that work more often. [/QUOTE]

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