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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8392781" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Unless I'm mistaken, a 3/4 caster would go up to 7th level spells, so they'd miss out on 8ths and 9ths. While I generally agree that that's not too much of a reduction in power, it could still be made to work. You'd start off with 1st level spells, and gain a higher spell level at levels 4, 6, 9, 12, 14, 17. This means you'd pull consistently ahead of the  half-caster at level 6, and fall consistently behind the full-caster at level 7, which seems like a pretty good place for the three types to diverge.I don't, personally, see all that much utility from adding any of these things. But it seems to me that, if you really "had" to add something, a 3/4-caster would arguably be more distinctly different from the half-casters than a 2/3-caster would be, while remaining distinctly different from a full-caster. It also better splits the difference between half- and full-casters, capping out at 7th level spells (where half-casters cap out at 5 and full-casters cap out at 9). The only real benefit I can see to a 2/3 caster is that the progression table is smoother: at one more than every multiple of 3, you gain a higher spell level, until you cap out at 6.If half-casters didn't exist, so the only models we had were full-casters and 1/3-casters like EK and AT, then I could see 2/3-casters as fitting into a nice niche. But with both 1/3- and half-casters present, 2/3 just seems to compress too much into too tight a space: people cap out at 4th level spells, 5th level spells, and 6th level spells...or go all the way to 9ths.Edit: It's worth noting, I was presuming that there would be an artificial cap on progression the way that full-casters are artifically capped off from getting 10th level spells like they're supposed to mathematically. (That is, full-casters gain a new spell level at every odd character level...except 19th, where they get nothing. I was assuming similar limits for both 2/3 and 3/4 casters, blocking them from getting what should be their highest theoretical spell level.) If that cap isn't considered, then yes, 2/3 casters and 3/4 casters would go one spell level higher at extremely high levels. I personally find that sort of thing weird, and thus wouldn't design something that way--why have features that are only reached if you literally get to the highest or second-highest level possible in the game?</blockquote>

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