Graha013
2011-06-20, 10:25 AM
Have a general question in regards to starting any caster class that 'knows' specific spells out of a list or has a spellbook to fill. How do most DM's deal with spell allotment and choices?
I just made a CL 15 Wizard for a back up character in our 'higher levels' campaign. I found it kind of cheesy that, as I was filling up the spellbook with spells, that as I progressed to the next spell class level, I would find a better version of a spell, go back and clear out one that I had known that basically was a 'wasted page'. Example of this was Invisibility and Greater Invisibility.
Is the assumption generally that any choices made now would have been done in (lost years) of character progression, lvls 1-14, and everything is fair game? Do DMs (in a very general sense) expect such optimization, or do they want a level by level break down ( I learned these, I replaced these, etc). I know equipment building is generally thought along the lines of (based on the cash-based-on-character-level diagram) that they've accumulated this wealth/equipment and therefore it's a clean slate. But spells and knowledge?
I just made a CL 15 Wizard for a back up character in our 'higher levels' campaign. I found it kind of cheesy that, as I was filling up the spellbook with spells, that as I progressed to the next spell class level, I would find a better version of a spell, go back and clear out one that I had known that basically was a 'wasted page'. Example of this was Invisibility and Greater Invisibility.
Is the assumption generally that any choices made now would have been done in (lost years) of character progression, lvls 1-14, and everything is fair game? Do DMs (in a very general sense) expect such optimization, or do they want a level by level break down ( I learned these, I replaced these, etc). I know equipment building is generally thought along the lines of (based on the cash-based-on-character-level diagram) that they've accumulated this wealth/equipment and therefore it's a clean slate. But spells and knowledge?