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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 5927479" data-attributes="member: 380"><p>There are a lot more demands on a clerics spellcasting from other players than there are on the wizards.  If go back to the old pre-3e model, then clerics simply have to prepare a lot of healing spells and just give up on doing anything more interesting with their spellcasting, or at least they have to deal with that expectation from other players.  If you go with the 3e model then they not only have to guess what spells they will need ahead of time, they have to guess again when figuring out what to sacrifice to cast healing spells.  The current 5e model doesn't less the demand on cleric spellcasting, but it gives them more control over the utility of their few remaining slots the rest of players haven't commandeered.  So that all that really remains is that they don't have a lot of spells to buff themselves into the stratosphere if they don't play ball with the rest of the other players demands, which could be accomplished by limiting stacking and making some of their buffs shorter duration, i.e. good for one fight so that it then becomes a choice of action economy (spend the action to become stronger or spend it to act).</p></blockquote><p></p>