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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sheep" data-source="post: 1869283" data-attributes="member: 4965">My wife falls into the category of people who don't like playing casters.She will, reluctantly, play sorcerers and other spontaneous casters, but she refuses to play wizards, clerics or druids.What she doesn't like is having to pick spells on a regular basis: she feels that constantly having to evaluate the relative merits of spell selection takes up too much brain time and detracts from her enjoyment of the game.  The limited and/or infrequent choices that sorcerers and similar have to make suit her much better.  Evaluating which spell to learn can be done in a relaxed manner when levelling, rather than while other players are waiting for you to tweak your spell list for the day; and it's easier in combat to pick from a smaller palette of spells to know what you want to cast ("should I use fireball or scorching ray this round").She also feels that whatever she selects for a day is often the wrong thing as events play out ("I should have taken 3 flame strikes today, not 2"), where although sorcerers have a more limited selection of spells they can cast, you can use all your 3rd level slots for fireball if that's what you need in a given adventure.And yes, the latter problem can be overcome with proper preparation of scrolls and wands, but that's an additional level of complexity that she doesn't want to deal with.I can see her points.  I prefer the flexibility that non-spontaneous casters have, but I don't usually have the time to put together "standard selections" for typical situations which would cut down the required game time to prepare.So, in short, although she's one of the smartest people I know and could play a very effective character from a non-spontaneous caster class, she simply finds that the effort required detracts from her enjoyment of the game.I suspect that many people who don't like playing casters (other than those who don't like the Vancian magic system on more general grounds) have issues along these lines, although perhaps more extreme.Corran</blockquote>

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