Kobold-Bard
2009-04-02, 01:07 PM
Don't know if this has been suggested before. If it has and it's better than mine let me know where it is.
Anyway, the basic idea is the normal Spell Slots system, but modified because I don't like it.
1. Every caster has a pool of Spell Levels similar to a Psion's Power Points. These levels are equal the the amount of spell levels the caster would normally get according to the book that they appear in.
eg. A lvl 4 Wizard would normally prepare each day three lvl 1 spells and two lvl 2 spells. This comes to a total of seven Spell Levels available.
2. The caster then spends from this pool of levels when casting spells.
eg. The Wizard from the above example could cast three lvl 2 spells and a single lvl 1 spell instead of the allotment usually given by the PHB.
3. Casters who normally prepare spells (Wizards, Cleric, Druids) must assign their Spell Levels whenever they would normally prepare spells, assigning additional Levels for things such as metamagic feats. These spells are then fixed as normal, unless they have a spontaneous casting ability such as the Druid's Summon Nature's Ally ability.
4. Casters who cast spontaneously (Sorcerers, Favoured Soul, Warmage) work mechanically similarly to Psions and Wilders; taking the necessary Spell Levels from their available pool as and when they cast the spell, ajusting the levels required for things like metamagic.
5. Casters who an cast certain spells spontaneously (Cleric's Cure or Inflict spells) work the same way as they do in the PHB, trading a pepared spell for the appropriate one. However this system allows higher level casters to avoid preparing lesser spells, so if a Cleric of Kord wants to cast a Cure Light Wounds spell, but hasn't prepared any lvl 1 spells to convert, he must instead sacrifice a higher spell and cast an equivalently greater healing spell in exchange.
I realise that this system increases the already immense power of spellcasters, but I am planning to balance this with a system similar to the casting fatigue rules of True 20.
Comments will be appreciated, but feel free not to.
Also apologies for the rambling nature of the post, I'm terrible at putting ides down in an acceptable order.
Anyway, the basic idea is the normal Spell Slots system, but modified because I don't like it.
1. Every caster has a pool of Spell Levels similar to a Psion's Power Points. These levels are equal the the amount of spell levels the caster would normally get according to the book that they appear in.
eg. A lvl 4 Wizard would normally prepare each day three lvl 1 spells and two lvl 2 spells. This comes to a total of seven Spell Levels available.
2. The caster then spends from this pool of levels when casting spells.
eg. The Wizard from the above example could cast three lvl 2 spells and a single lvl 1 spell instead of the allotment usually given by the PHB.
3. Casters who normally prepare spells (Wizards, Cleric, Druids) must assign their Spell Levels whenever they would normally prepare spells, assigning additional Levels for things such as metamagic feats. These spells are then fixed as normal, unless they have a spontaneous casting ability such as the Druid's Summon Nature's Ally ability.
4. Casters who cast spontaneously (Sorcerers, Favoured Soul, Warmage) work mechanically similarly to Psions and Wilders; taking the necessary Spell Levels from their available pool as and when they cast the spell, ajusting the levels required for things like metamagic.
5. Casters who an cast certain spells spontaneously (Cleric's Cure or Inflict spells) work the same way as they do in the PHB, trading a pepared spell for the appropriate one. However this system allows higher level casters to avoid preparing lesser spells, so if a Cleric of Kord wants to cast a Cure Light Wounds spell, but hasn't prepared any lvl 1 spells to convert, he must instead sacrifice a higher spell and cast an equivalently greater healing spell in exchange.
I realise that this system increases the already immense power of spellcasters, but I am planning to balance this with a system similar to the casting fatigue rules of True 20.
Comments will be appreciated, but feel free not to.
Also apologies for the rambling nature of the post, I'm terrible at putting ides down in an acceptable order.