Giants and Graveyards: Grod's collected 3.5 revisions

[Grod_The_Giant]

I could build you a Wizard, using just official materials, who can pretty much cast their spells at-will. And who can, more or less, be a Spontaneous caster. It's not even that hard.

This one. And that trickery aside, Tier 1 doesn't mean power; it means OPTIONS. Even without trickery, the wizard can run away and come back tomorrow with the exact spells for the job. But again, a tier argument is not the function of this thread. One of my major philosophies here was fixed-list casters only--

But anyway... I like this work; it's quite nice. I kinda want to see someone who preps their spells from a spellbook, and who gets an "improved" version of Advanced Learning that lets them, I dunno, swap out Advanced Learning spells 1/day or something.

But I acknowledge that that would be quite hard to balance.

The closest I've got is the Ritualist, who can sort of cast any spell he wants... but who takes a long time to do it, and caps at 7th level spells.