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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 602828" data-attributes="member: 7884">I never understand this complaint.  Every class level, a wizard gets two free spells of his choice, in his spellbook.  No cost.  Zip.  Nada.  A sorcerer, on the other hand, gets perhaps an average of 1 1/2 new spells per class level (I'm at work and don't have my books to hand, so I can't give you references nor check the math).  So your 11th level wizard (say starting at with Int 15 at 1st level) will have all 0-level spells, 7 1st level spells, 4 spells of each level between 2nd and 5th, and 2 6th level spells for free - a heap more than an 11th level sorcerer.  OK, so the wizard wants to expand his repetoire beyond the two spells per level, and that costs.  Such is the price of flexibility.  However, a wizard should adopt a similar philosophy as a sorcerer in choosing what spells to scribe (given the cost to do so) - don't duplicate basic effects (you've got Fireball, do you really need Lightning Bolt as well?  You've got Charm Person, do you really need Suggestion as well?  Etc).  So your 11th level wizard should work out which of those spells he really needs to scribe, and only scribe those ones.  But the wizard has two advantages in this choice over the sorcerer.  First, the wizard can afford to be less selective, 'cause at the end of the day he just needs to spend more money to acquire a new spell that he wished he had (a sorcerer is stuck with his choices for ever more).  Second, it's not as though the wizard's going to suddenly lose those spellbooks he's acquired, and when he gets enough money he can scribe other spells from them into his own.Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>

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