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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9363759" data-attributes="member: 6877472">The ability to find new spells as treasure is, unfortunately, undercut by the divine casters.&nbsp; Clerics and Druids have the ability to mold their spell lists at will, and depending on subclass, can even have spells normally only Wizards could cast.Add to this the fact that consuming a scroll to add a spell to your book is actually reducing available party resources* (in addition to the time and gold spent), and it's not an especially fantastic ability.&nbsp; I used to not mind this so much, but the most recent D&amp;D character I played was a Wizard, and trying to gather spells for all occasions proved to be less fun when the Cleric could avoid the extra steps, and I wasn't really using more spells than I naturally got from leveling up anyways, given the limits on what I could prepare.It's better than being a Sorcerer, I'll give it that, but it's not great.&nbsp; Especially given that scrolls are found randomly and most spellcasting NPC's seem to use similar spell loadouts, so even capturing a spellbook can make you realize &quot;oh, I already have all of these!&quot;.*Since a scroll represents a spell that can be cast without using a spell slot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 9363759, member: 6877472"] The ability to find new spells as treasure is, unfortunately, undercut by the divine casters. Clerics and Druids have the ability to mold their spell lists at will, and depending on subclass, can even have spells normally only Wizards could cast. Add to this the fact that consuming a scroll to add a spell to your book is actually [B]reducing[/B] available party resources* (in addition to the time and gold spent), and it's not an especially fantastic ability. I used to not mind this so much, but the most recent D&D character I played was a Wizard, and trying to gather spells for all occasions proved to be less fun when the Cleric could avoid the extra steps, and I wasn't really using more spells than I naturally got from leveling up anyways, given the limits on what I could prepare. It's better than being a Sorcerer, I'll give it that, but it's not great. Especially given that scrolls are found randomly and most spellcasting NPC's seem to use similar spell loadouts, so even capturing a spellbook can make you realize "oh, I already have all of these!". *Since a scroll represents a spell that can be cast without using a spell slot. [/QUOTE]

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