The Velvet Souljah
First Post
New to 4e here.
Trying to wrap my brain around how the Wizard's spellbook is used with the new rules. My understanding is that (don't have the rulebook directly in front of me) for each spell the wizard gains per level, he/she can write 2 new spells of that level into his/her spellbook. Each day, however, the wizard only prepares the number of spells that they could otherwise cast.
This makes sense to me in the context of daily spells. I am supposed to know one daily spell...I select from one of the two in my spellbook, and I'm on my way. Conceptually, the "daily" nature of the spell/power seems to coincide with 3.5 "slots" neatly.
Where I am little confused is with utility spells...and particularly utility spells that are not daily, but encounter-based. In theory, there is no limit to the number of times I can cast an encounter-based spell in the course of a single day. So when I go to select (say at 2nd level), one of my utility spells and I select an encounter-based spell, am I in effect saying that..."for this day, and until I re-prepare my spells, the utility spell I know is this one (regardless of whether it is a daily spell and I am entitled to cast it only once or an encounter-based spell and I am entitled to cast it a number of times)?"
Apologies in advance if I am overcomplicating what should be a simple thing...just can't get my brain around this quite yet.
Trying to wrap my brain around how the Wizard's spellbook is used with the new rules. My understanding is that (don't have the rulebook directly in front of me) for each spell the wizard gains per level, he/she can write 2 new spells of that level into his/her spellbook. Each day, however, the wizard only prepares the number of spells that they could otherwise cast.
This makes sense to me in the context of daily spells. I am supposed to know one daily spell...I select from one of the two in my spellbook, and I'm on my way. Conceptually, the "daily" nature of the spell/power seems to coincide with 3.5 "slots" neatly.
Where I am little confused is with utility spells...and particularly utility spells that are not daily, but encounter-based. In theory, there is no limit to the number of times I can cast an encounter-based spell in the course of a single day. So when I go to select (say at 2nd level), one of my utility spells and I select an encounter-based spell, am I in effect saying that..."for this day, and until I re-prepare my spells, the utility spell I know is this one (regardless of whether it is a daily spell and I am entitled to cast it only once or an encounter-based spell and I am entitled to cast it a number of times)?"
Apologies in advance if I am overcomplicating what should be a simple thing...just can't get my brain around this quite yet.
