Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 3713832" data-attributes="member: 3424">Yes. Less book-keeping. Currently, a 20th-level wizard probably has a spell book of over 50 spells from which he prepares 40+ actual spells per day. 40+ separate spells (even if he does prepare multiple compies of some of his favorites) is a lot of individual abilities to keep in mind any any one time. For some players, it can be a daunting task, even if they have played that wizard since 1st level and have had a long time to get used to his abilities. A DM who is preparing that wizard as an NPC is in an even worse position, and some fudge this by ignoring spells below a certain level. A game designer doesn't have that luxury - he has to detail out that wizard down to his last cantrip.Now, if you cut down on the number of individual spells to say, six per day spells, six per encounter spells, and a smaller number of at will spells, you've cut the number of separate abilities you have to keep track of by more than half.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 3713832, member: 3424"] Yes. Less book-keeping. Currently, a 20th-level wizard probably has a spell book of over 50 spells from which he prepares 40+ actual spells per day. 40+ separate spells (even if he does prepare multiple compies of some of his favorites) is a lot of individual abilities to keep in mind any any one time. For some players, it can be a daunting task, even if they have played that wizard since 1st level and have had a long time to get used to his abilities. A DM who is preparing that wizard as an NPC is in an even worse position, and some fudge this by ignoring spells below a certain level. A game designer doesn't have that luxury - he has to detail out that wizard down to his last cantrip. Now, if you cut down on the number of individual spells to say, six per day spells, six per encounter spells, and a smaller number of at will spells, you've cut the number of separate abilities you have to keep track of by more than half. [/QUOTE]

Verification