More newbie questions relating to ranged touch attack and quantity of spells

[Jaminajar]

Hi...ranged touch attack first
if I throw say acid or alchemist fire how far can I throw it ?? It's a ranged touch attack which means touch your enemy with the attack for it to work so I am not sure ??

Second question is spells
How many times can a spell be used per day ? I know about cantrips/orisons I am talking about bless/doom/burning hands /sleep etc. Once the spell is used is that it until tomorrow or can I use it again the same day ??

Thanks in advance for any help I really appreciate it !

[PFBeginner]

Jaminajar wrote:

...alchemist fire how far can I throw it ??

Alchemist fire has a range increment of 10 feet, and like all thrown weapons has a maximum range increment of x5, so in this case a maximum of 50 feet.

Remember each full range increment imposes a -2 penalty on the attack.

Jaminajar wrote:

...How many times can a spell be used per day ?

Clerics and Wizards essentially have the same number of spells they can prepare each day; once a spell of is cast, that spell slot cannot be reused until the receives spells the next morning.

Both classess potentially get bonus spells that they can prepare based on their key ability (i.e. Intelligence for Wizards and Wisdom for Clerics).
See Below

SPELLS PER DAY (Cleric/Wizard)

.........................SPELL LEVEL
Class Level.......1st....2nd....3rd
1st....................1*
2nd...................2*
3rd....................2*......1~
4th....................3*......2~
5th....................3*.......2~.......1^

* Add one 1st level spell if the caster's key ability (Int or Wis) is 13 or greater
~ Add one 2nd level spell if the caster's key ability (Int or Wis) is 14 or greater
^ Add one 3rd level spell if the caster's key ability (Int or Wis) is 16 or greater

Examples:

A 4th level Wizard with an Intelligence score of 17 would be able to prepare the following number of spells in the morning...

1st: 4
2nd: 3

A 5th level Cleric with a Wisdom score of 15 would be able to prepare the following number of spells each morning:

1st: 4
2nd: 3
3rd: 1 -- Note, the cleric didn't qualify for the bonus 3rd level spell because his Wisdom Score was not 16 or higher.

[Jean-Michel Chaburski]

You can cast a spell only once a day... that is, if you only memorize it once.

Jamijanar explained well the number of spells one can memorize, let's go on this example :

the 5th level cleric depicted by Jamijanar has several options :
1st level spell :
- memorizing 4 different 1st level spell : each spell can be used only once a day. We have here a rather flexible cleric who has to cast spells wisely.
- memorizing the same spell 4 times : this spell can be used up to 4 times a day. The possibility to cast this spell several times comes at the cost of flexibility.
- everything in between : like memorizing 2 spells, each of them twice, or memorizing 3 spells (one twice, the other only once)... and so on.

2nd level spells :
- memorizing 3 different 2nd level spell : each spell can be used only once a day. Here again, we have flexibility.
- memorizin one spell 3 times : it can be cast 3 time a day.
- memorizing 1 spell once (it can be cast only once a day) and another spell twice (it can be cast twice a day)

3rd level spell :
rather straightforward, since this cleric has only one 3rd level spell slot, so only one spell to be memorized, that can be cast only once a day.

Note you CAN'T use two 1st-level spell slots to memorize a 2nd level spell ans so on...