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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sheep" data-source="post: 1870118" data-attributes="member: 4965">But to be effective with this, you need to spend time preparing these lists ahead of time.  When my wife is playing rather than GMing she prefers not to have homework to do: levelling up is about the extent of it, and she likes having PCGen or similar available to do the calculations for her.She probably doesn't, since nobody in our campaigns has tried this trick; but again, it's an additional level of complexity and still has the possibility of leaving you short in combat situations ("I should have memorised 3 fireballs, not 2 with a slot open").  So I don't think it's make a difference to her.  And it doesn't help with clerics and druids at all.These comments miss the point.  My wife finds that non-spontaneous casters require continuous, complex decision making where a lot of unknowns have to be balanced throughout the game.  Compared to playing a combat character, it requires a lot more strategic thinking; combat characters and rogues can be played effectively with fairly simple, localised strategies, even if there are a lot of potential options at any point in combat.My wife can think strategically, but she doesn't enjoy it.  It's not a lot of fun for her to play this way.  Other people may enjoy it a lot, but the question at hand was why some people don't like to play casters.  I think this distinction may be a factor for a number of those people.Corran</blockquote>

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