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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6649796" data-attributes="member: 2067">Defiling is the way you cast spells at higher level in Dark Sun. It becomes the default way that any wizard (and maybe sorcerer, and maybe bard) does this. It increases the power of a spell as if you had spent a higher-level slot, but you don't need to spend a higher-level slot, you just need to defile an area around you. If I wanted to get fancy, maybe have a &quot;life cost&quot; for each spell level you want to increase, and you can defile a greater area or more powerful creatures to pay it. Like, a 10' radius or 10 hp worth of creatures is worth one defiling point (you can't deal damage, but creatures with &lt; that hp just die outright). The cost in life points for a more powerful spell is exponential (+1 level = 1 life point; +2 levels = 3 life points; +3 levels = 6 life points; etc.), so to ramp up a low-level spell to a high level might cost a pretty large area its vitality. You also can't defile where there's no life, so if you're in a desert or whatever, no go. But you can surround yourself with...er...batteries (slaves) who you can use to power your spells, too.You can avoid this cost - you can become a preserver, which is the normal spell scaling rules, where you're actually spending higher-level slots. This is not common knowledge, though, so if you do this, you're part of some preserver tradition that has taught you how to do this. No one knows how to do this without being connected to some group. That's where I'd start, anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6649796, member: 2067"] Defiling is the way you cast spells at higher level in Dark Sun. It becomes the default way that any wizard (and maybe sorcerer, and maybe bard) does this. It increases the power of a spell as if you had spent a higher-level slot, but you don't need to spend a higher-level slot, you just need to defile an area around you. If I wanted to get fancy, maybe have a "life cost" for each spell level you want to increase, and you can defile a greater area or more powerful creatures to pay it. Like, a 10' radius or 10 hp worth of creatures is worth one defiling point (you can't deal damage, but creatures with < that hp just die outright). The cost in life points for a more powerful spell is exponential (+1 level = 1 life point; +2 levels = 3 life points; +3 levels = 6 life points; etc.), so to ramp up a low-level spell to a high level might cost a pretty large area its vitality. You also can't defile where there's no life, so if you're in a desert or whatever, no go. But you can surround yourself with...er...batteries (slaves) who you can use to power your spells, too. You can avoid this cost - you can become a preserver, which is the normal spell scaling rules, where you're actually spending higher-level slots. This is not common knowledge, though, so if you do this, you're part of some preserver tradition that has taught you how to do this. No one knows how to do this without being connected to some group. That's where I'd start, anyway. [/QUOTE]

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