The entire problem is because people cannot run six encounters in one session.
I'm happy with design so that you that you want many encounters over multiple sessions.
By the existence on this thread the majority of players do not run multiple sessions over a single adventuring day .
The table chooses if they are doing Adventure, Cinematics, or Gritty
If they choose Adventure, level 1 casters have 2 1st level spells slot and assume 6-8 encounters per adventure day.
If they choose Cinematic, level 1 casters have 1 1st level spells slot and assume 2-4 encounters per adventure...
The original 2013 survey overrepresented and overvalued a group who were never going to buy 5e. And their touch still paints the edition.
I mean the easiest solution is to have different charts for spells per day..
One with lots of slots for attrition.
One with few slots for cinematics
They knew the problem with them.
The reason why nothing was changed was because they found out the issue after they created the books and those books were selling like hotcakes.
They did not want it errata something that was selling so well so they waited and waited and waited and waited and...
This is because the original audience that Wizards catered to, when you attempt to give them guidance, start singing the last 30 seconds of RATM's killing In The Name.
I'm not saying my preference I'm saying:
boss monsters die too easily:
But
You can't nerf spell power
You can't nerf spell quantity
You can't spell flexibility
You can't default to short rests
You can't can't switch to a longer rest schedule
You can't convert to item or gold based resource...
Many of the decisions in the game that still remain in a game what decisions made for grognards who no longer play the game.
At some point, the community that exists for 5e and for the continuation of D&D has to be willing to change things and lose access to their old product in order to get...
My ruling is
"Guided by a flash of magical insight, you make one attack with the weapon used in the spell’s casting. "
Innate Sorcery, No.
But oddly
Seeking Spell, Yes
To me it's not an attack roll of the spell but it's an attack roll for the spell to do anything.
The spell isn't making the...
At some point we have to put some blame of the community
Problems with D&D have been known for years.
They don't get fixed because large swathes of the community refuse to either
Let their old books go for possible, newer, non-compatible.better designed book
Share the design space with fans...