Okay I understand that Druids, Wizards, Clerics, etc... prepare their daily allotment of spells after 8 hours of rest and then 1 hour of prayer/study. I also know that they have a daily spell limit and bonus spells per day that are added via their spellcasting stat.
My question is how many spells can they prepare in that one hour allotment? I haven't been able to locate a chart or anything on this. I would find it hard to believe that they can prepare all their spells in that short amount of time.
All of them.
Is that RAW (if so source/page) or RAI?
RAW. From http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic#TOC-Preparing-Wizard-Spells:
After resting, a wizard must study his spellbook to prepare any spells that day. If he wants to prepare all his spells, the process takes 1 hour. Preparing some smaller portion of his daily capacity takes a proportionally smaller amount of time, but always at least 15 minutes, the minimum time required to achieve the proper mental state.
Other classes have similar wording.
Note that druids and clerics do NOT prepare spells after 8 hours of rest; rather, they have a set time each day (chosen at level 1) when they pray/whatever to regain their spells.
The "rest to reload" only applies to arcane casters.
Alright thank you very much.
If you take a certain Discovery as a Wizard you can prepare in as much as 15 minutes (for all your spells) or as little as 1.
And really, is it all that farfetched to say the Cleric/Wizard/Whatever can look over his Spellbook/Finish his prayers in an hour or less?
I know it doesn't take me that long to do something like, say, look over notes I've made for a class and get it all down pat.
Reviewing notes is quite a bit different then memorizing complex motion/incantations/proper spell components for several dozens of spells.
Reviewing notes is quite a bit different then memorizing complex motion/incantations/proper spell components for several dozens of spells.
Is it? These are, after all, spells that the wizard has previously "learned" through a lengthy process separate from spell preparation itself. Each spell "learned" takes at least at last an hour to understand and another hour to write in the wizard's spell book, possibly substantially longer if the skill rolls are failed.
I think it's quite appropriate to consider the daily preparation as a review instead of a learning process.
An hour per spell level to copy into his own book. Maybe its because I learn differently but writing something in a book doesn't mean I learned it fully. I have to try something multiple times before I learn it. So I suppose this is a difference in learning.
However my question is answered and I thank you. Thread over.