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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8795133" data-attributes="member: 6988941">You prepare the niche spells on the days when you have a particular scheme in mind for them. I don't see much difference.And I'm not opining on what made sense in a pre-5e system or the relative merits of 5e by comparison. OneD&D so far is keeping the same lower number of slots, and just weirdly fixing the spells prepared to it for no particular reason. I don't see how that repairs anything. Now if a prepared caster decides they need a paricular obscure level 3 spell for a paricular scheme, say Feign Death, that is one of their 3 level 3 spells for the day (exclusive of special class or subclass bonus options), and level 3 is brimming with amazing spells. This is much more restrictive on using an obscure spell than 5e where a prepared caster could boot a prepared spell of any level. 5e is still more restrictive than prior editions where there were more slots, but this doesn't fix that (to the extent it's a problem) except to the extent that if your list had a real dud level of spells you'd be obligated to prepare 1-3 of them anyway.Of course it's hard to gauge because so far we've only seen it in the context of memorized casters who are being turned into prepared casters, which makes them much less restricted under this scheme on the whole. In overall power level this is an upgrade, even if an unnecessarily complex limitation.Upon further reflection I also have to ask WotC what ludonarrative they are actually telling with the weird retro-vancian rework of neo-vancian casting. The spell slot and preparation system has always been a metagame conceit, but having spells prepared proportionate to spell slots but not actually tied to them seems like a whole additional level of gamey abstraction, telling no game narrative, but rather just preferring a slightly simpler progression grid over actual balance or actual meaningful simplicity or accessibility.Playtest what a good, balanced number of spells for each class to have prepared at each character level is, and give them that number in a column on the character progression chart. That's all they've got to do.</blockquote>

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