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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belphanior" data-source="post: 4171654" data-attributes="member: 12401">At low level casters only have, what, 2 to 5 spells to begin with? Not counting the 0-level ones, which are handy, but hardly potent combat winners. A caster who wishes to use a magic effect every round is out of mojo before the second fight ends.You call this "go nova" and imply it's the wizard's fault for being careless.I call this "let the wizard be a wizard for goodness sake" and claim that previous D&D versions punish low level casters for trying to have their cake and eat it too. This is bad game design and something I've hated ever since my very first play experiences. I was a rogue, by the way, so don't think it's to do with a personal hangup; I just spotted it and thought it was lame. (edit: I lied, I was a thief of course.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )And as for going nova with daily powers, it's still not the same impact. That means the first encounter was a breeze and you consequently had to spend less surges, potions, whatever afterwards. You'll now have more of those and still all your encounter powers available. It's a completely different situation.</blockquote>