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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4489645" data-attributes="member: 8863">I think there was some move to the cleric spell selection like this in 2e.  In the Basic rules, the whole process of how clerics got spells always seemed kind of vague and fuzzy to me.  In 2e, especially in the later rulebooks, it seemed to get more codified, probably because it wasn't all that clear to begin with.  It's one thing when the rules tell the players its up to the DM; it's another thing when the rules DON'T tell the DM anything, and he's got to figure it out on his own.Starting spells for wizards seemed the same way to me.  The number of spells a wizard started with in his spellbook always seemed contradictory.  And sometimes the rules were wonky, like in Basic D&D it was kind of implied that a wizard only had 1 spell to start with, but how the heck is he suppoed to add more if that one spell isn't read magic?That was a good move IMO.  There were implications to these effects in the 2e rules, but this codified things for the sake of consistancy.</blockquote>