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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaisoku" data-source="post: 5276311" data-attributes="member: 58447">The Oracle has Sorcerer spellcasting. In my own play experience (yes, actual play experience, not theory), the level behind on curative response magic (such as, curing permanent blindness for example), is felt critically.The 3.5e (or was it 3.0e?) DMG had rules on creating new spells for casters. It stated some fairly specific rules for how to build a divine spell over an arcane spell.Let me see if I can find it...... Okay, I'll paraphrase some of the advice stated in here (pg 35, 3.5e ver):- If it's so good you can't see someone not taking it, then it's too powerful (or too low level).- Compare range/duration/target to other spells to check the balance.- Arcane magic should have the best offensive magic, flashy/dramatic, but not have healing/restorative magic.- Clerics should have the best curative and alignment magic, and have great information gathering magic.- Druids should have the best animal/plant magic.etc (more stuff on the different classes)Then there's a section on "Damage Caps for Spells", where it outright states the damage caps for different levels, with a specifically different table for Divine magic that lists all damage amounts at one step behind.So originally, the spell lists for Clerics and Druids were meant to be far more restrictive.Also, the Druid has a bit of a different spell list over the Cleric, in that their curative magic is delayed slightly, which allows access to some more "flashy" or damaging spells accessed earlier (around Arcane Magic levels) in compensation, but only when it's appropriate to nature magic.Splatbooks and 3PP material tended to power creep, and thus remove those types of restrictions in many areas... which is why it's not usually an issue if you played with core rules only.</blockquote>

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