Cleric Spells Charactermancer

Can anyone point me to an explainer of this please? One of my players is playing a cleric and it just doesn't make sense when he moves up levels. I always thought the Cleric gets all the spells for their level and they just have to "prepare" certain spells for a day and that's it. So if they want all healing spells for the day, they prepare all healing spells in all the slots. But when our Cleric levels it, it has him pick a bunch of spells from a list. Sorry if this is a total newbie question, we'd just like to understand better.

I assume this is for the DnD 5e by Roll20 character sheet? If so, the way the Charactermancer is set up it follows the number of "prepared spells".  Note: The Charactermancer often doesn't understand the domain's bonus spells that are always prepared.  My suggestion: ignore the Charactermancer for spells, do it manually via drag and drop from the compendium.  A bit of backstory: Historically (before the Operation Firebolt update) it was a bad idea to put all of the spells you could memorize on a character sheet because ALL character sheets loaded "just in case" and that caused significant load on your system.  Operation Firebolt changed that to what is called "lazy loading", which means character sheets are only loaded if you open them.  Post-Operation Firebolt it is generally "ok" to put a lot of spells on your character sheet, but if you notice some slowdown then that would be a good first step to troubleshooting the slowdown.

I'd still recommend not loading a character with all possible spells, particularly as the character achieves higher levels. Even with lazy loading, that particular character will likely be slow to open and difficult to navigate (there is no way to "hide" unprepared spells).

keithcurtis said: I'd still recommend not loading a character with all possible spells, particularly as the character achieves higher levels. Even with lazy loading, that particular character will likely be slow to open and difficult to navigate (there is no way to "hide" unprepared spells). That depends on the character sheet, for the DnD 5e by Roll20 sheet the red dots do a pretty good job of bringing focus to prepared vs unprepared. Then the spell macro I use takes that and hides the unprepared spells.  Anecdotally, since lazy loading we haven't seen a slowdown on our sheets yet even with all PHB, TCE, and XGE Level 1 through Level 7 spells on a character sheet. But, that is with decent hardware so, may still be an issue for some machines. And most 5e spells are in the 1-4th level range, so higher levels don't add a lot of spells to the sheet.