I could have sworn that prepared casters could leave spell slots open when they initially prepared spells for the day, and then take 15 minutes to fill up any or all of those slots. But when I went to look for the rules to make sure I had the details right, I could not find any sign of it.
Am I thinking of a 3.5 rule that got dropped in Pathfinder? Or am I just missing it? And if the latter, can someone point me in the right direction?
(Either a page number of a AoN link would be great.)
Yes you're correct, they can leave spell-slots open and prepair them later. However you got the details a bit wrong with how long it takes to prep spells in the middle of the day.
If you leave slots open and prep them later you spend a fraction of an hour equal to the fraction of your spells that you're prepairing, with a MINIMUM of 15 minutes.
I didn't say that super well so:
Examples:
If you have 100 spell slots available, you prepair 50 of them in the morning (which takes an hour as usual), then you prepair another 50 later in the day it takes half an hour to prepair them.
If you prepaired 40 spells in the morning (takes an hour) and went to prepair another 40 at lunch time (leaving 20 still un-prepaired) it would take you 24 minutes (40% of the hour).
The minimum downtime to prepair spell-slots in the middle of the day is 15 minutes, even if it's only 1 spell-slot.
Please note that the ability to 'leave slots open and prepare them later' is specific to Wizards only: Other prepared casters use different preparation methods that aren't as flexible.
Please note that the ability to 'leave slots open and prepare them later' is specific to Wizards only: Other prepared casters use different preparation methods that aren't as flexible.
Thanks everybody. I thought it applied to divine casters too, but it seems I was mistaken on that. Now I know what I am looking for I was able to find it in the physical book too. For the record, it is page 218.
Interestingly, the minimum of 15 min prep time seems to apply to the initial prep first thing as well as any later cram sessions. I had thought that was fixed at an hour.
” A divine spellcaster selects and prepares spells ahead of time through prayer and meditation at a particular time of day. The time required to prepare spells is the same as it is for a wizard (1 hour), as is the requirement for a relatively peaceful environment. When preparing spells for the day, a divine spellcaster can leave some of her spell slots open. Later during that day, she can repeat the preparation process as often as she likes. During these extra sessions of preparation, she can fill these unused spell slots. She cannot, however, abandon a previously prepared spell to replace it with another one or fill a slot that is empty because she has cast a spell in the meantime. Like the first session of the day, this preparation takes at least 15 minutes...
Interestingly, the minimum of 15 min prep time seems to apply to the initial prep first thing as well as any later cram sessions. I had thought that was fixed at an hour.
Oh cool, I'd forgotten that detail.
Lelomenia wrote:
crb chapiter 9 wrote:
” When preparing spells for the day, a divine spellcaster can leave some of her spell slots open. Later during that day, she can repeat the preparation process as often as she likes. During these extra sessions of preparation, she can fill these unused spell slots.
Can the divine caster use an empty slot to spontaneously cast a heal spell?
Or does it need a spell prepared in order to be used?
Quote:
The cleric can “lose” any prepared spell that is not an orison or domain spell in order to cast any cure spell of the same spell level or lower (a cure spell is any spell with “cure” in its name).
Has to be a spell slot with a prepared spell in it.
