with my style, i find it difficult to have any two characters overlapping in spellbooks. especially with a bishop, unless i consciously have the them avoid casting in the books covered by the hybrids/pures along for the ride.
for example, i've run a fighter-lord-valk-bishop-bard party, and found the lord and valk never amounted to casting much. i just stopped casting the buffs with the lord/valk, because the bishop could cast the same spells at higher levels. this quickly added up into the lord/valk falling behind due to the lack of learning experiences.
i know, i should discipline myself about casting buffs with everyone who can, and making sure the one who is better does it last so that the higher level buffs are the ones remaining, but i seriously cant be bothered.
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