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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eldren" data-source="post: 1350739" data-attributes="member: 16555">This is a pretty tough call to make, because the spellfire rules don't really say anything one way or the other about it.  Sure, a caster who was also someone with spellfire could amp themselves up, but let them.  If they want to waste their spellcasting power for the day jacking up their spellfire levels, then they're going to have that many spells more that they can't really cast each day. It gets a bit worse with the "Spellfire Channeler" prestige class, also from Magic of Faerun.  They can store more Spellfire levels, although they run some risks.  Thankfully, they didn't make it so that you can absorb spells cast at you as a free action, as though you were a walking Ring of Spell Storing. Ultimately, I would just let the person use spellfire as written in the Forgotten Realms rules.  You probably aren't going to notice a huge impact on your game.  But be sure to implement the role playing side of things as well.  Spellfire isn't limited to just one person in a generation, as was originally thought, but it's still rare enough, and powerful enough, that once word gets out that someone has it, organizations like the Zhentarim, the Red Wizards of Thay, and maybe even the Harpers, are going to become a regular force in that individual's life as they attempt to bend the power to their own purposes.  Read Ed Greenwood's spellfire novels (Spellfire and Crown of Fire; I can't remember what the third one is called).  Shandril Shessair has quite a bit to deal with once it's discovered that she has spellfire.</blockquote>

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