What if spell preparation had same limits as manouvers?

[awaken DM golem]

No ... 


Necromancy and/or Psychoportation

Components:
S as in the typing 
V as in you are talking to yourself (uh-oh), really ... have you seen Silent Library ?!
M while "modem" is the specific thing, the value is perhaps 2 Gold Pieces (real world) but arguably just 1; so it could be a target of Eschew.

Casting Time:
rofl  about half of the posts on this board musta taken like 6 seconds to post And click.
Quicken is ..
Really, that's a quickened post. Two dots.

Duration: Instantaneous
The national security bureau has informed me, to inform you that the correct answer is Permanent.
That's the correct answer for you yourself, too. (yes that's a .gov threat)
  ... shh

[Amechra]

No ... 


Necromancy and/or Psychoportation

Components:
S as in the typing 
V as in you are talking to yourself (uh-oh), really ... have you seen Silent Library ?!
M while "modem" is the specific thing, the value is perhaps 2 Gold Pieces (real world) but arguably just 1; so it could be a target of Eschew.

Casting Time:
rofl  about half of the posts on this board musta taken like 6 seconds to post And click.
Quicken is ..
Really, that's a quickened post. Two dots.

Duration: Instantaneous
The national security bureau has informed me, to inform you that the correct answer is Permanent.
That's the correct answer for you yourself, too. (yes that's a .gov threat)
  ... shh

T is for Typing
I don't talk to myself.

Yes, but your typical thread necromancer uses Internet Rapid Spell, which makes any spell two time categories shorter. That's how people quicken posts. I kinda prefer Linking Posts to a Supernatural Wall of Text, but that's just me; sadly, the two metapostingstyles are incompatible...

Fine, fine, it's permanent.

A question; what if this was inverted, and you had a ToB class that prepped maneuvers like a Vancian caster?

Obviously, you would have to switch some stuff up...

Oh, almost forgot:
[spoiler]Raise Thread

The closest to that is Jaerom Darkwind's Blade Scholar, found at both 339 and dicefreaks.  It can learn any number of maneuvers from any discipline, so potentially all of them, but can only ready so many at a time.

EDIT : And don't specialize, be a Domain Thread Necromancer.  No banned schools that way

Pfff. Thread Necromancy is one of the only good schools...

I mean, when your choices are:

Browsing
Trolling
Meme-Quoting
Thread Necromancy
Short-Attention Span (colloquially known as Twitter/IM)
And Moderation,

and you have to keep Browsing, and you don't get access to Moderation as a Thread Necromancer... so I picked Trolling and Short Attention Span as my banned schools. It's not like I need them, anyway; I've got some spells from both, recorded in my trusty browser.

Besides the Thread Necromancy Domain sucks. Heavily. I mean, Necro'd to Unnecro'd is completely useless, and they expect us to prepare it as a 9th level spell? 

Still, looks like I'm gonna have to look up the Blade Scholar.

[awaken DM golem]

Oh wow, this "spell" can't be counter spelled !!

That's like Epic Spell, or back to Instantaneous.
The bureau would like to inform you that it does not exist.
So ... Meg is an Over-Deity ?!

Then you start doing the Far Realms zero time thing,
to see all the Google Cache and webarchive versions.
Existing for all time.

[Endarire]

What about wands, Pearls of Power, and other magic items?

Also, once around level 7, my Wizard probably does this already.  He probably preps each spell to cast once, maybe twice.  It ain't like he spams fireball when a single Evard's black tentacles will do for one fight, slow for another, solid fog for another, and glitterdust for another.

The term "Cheese" is like "Loophole" and refers to something that accuser doesn't like.

Giving everyone "maneuvers" akin to ToB feels very 4E.

[Amechra]

Oh wow, this "spell" can't be counter spelled !!

That's like Epic Spell, or back to Instantaneous.
The bureau would like to inform you that it does not exist.
So ... Meg is an Over-Deity ?!

Then you start doing the Far Realms zero time thing,
to see all the Google Cache and webarchive versions.
Existing for all time.

Well, yeah, it can't be specifically counter spelled, but it is absolutely useless against anything with the Moderation school, which has such beauties as Erase Thread, Erase Thread Again, and Die F***ing Thread Die.

So it isn't Epic level material. Plus, any spell that can get practically shut down by GitP is not epic material.

And I sometimes do do the GC and webarchive thing. It gives me a headache.

[JaronK]

As listed, I would say this would be a slight nerf to casters, but only slight.  The true power of casters tends to come from spells that have really long powerful effects, which this won't do much to.  If anything there's a danger that it would get your players to get more creative...

JaronK