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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gpetruc" data-source="post: 755604" data-attributes="member: 2255">A few mathI've thought a bit about the "level shifting problem" (the fact that with spell points a caster might use them to cast only higher level spells, but many of them)Starting from Eldorian's idea of a 5 round combat, and that he casts 4 spells (he's also got magic items such as scrolls/wands).Let's suppose the spellcaster has two options:1) cast always his highest level spells (for example all 7th level spells)2) cast spells between max and max -3(for example one 7th, one 6th, one 5th and one 4th)We'd like that in option 1 the caster should not be able to cast 4x 7th level spells, but less (let's say between 2 and 3).Balancing this "scaling" factor is the point.If we want to have higher level spells to be more expensive (and so have the price go up very quickly, for example geometrically). In this case we have that low level spells will be nearly free for high level casters (that will result in wizards always flying, invisible & buffed up).Instead, if we want a cost that increases more slowly (for example linearly in the spell level) it will result that at higher levels there is very few difference between different spell levels (a 9th level spell will cost about as an 8th or 7th level one)Now, after tinkering a bit with numbers, i came with this cost progression:Lvl 0: 1Lvl 1: 3Lvl 2: 6Lvl 3: 10Lvl 4: 15Lvl 5: 20Lvl 6: 25Lvl 7: 30Lvl 8: 40Lvl 9: 50In this way the "scaling" factor is always a litle less than 3. (I'd prefered 2.5, but the costs were going up too quickly)Then, to determine the spell points a wizard should have (including those coming from the bonus), we'll consider to use all them up in 4 encounters, casting 4 spells each (of levels scaling down)This is something less than what a sorcerer could cast (without spells from bonus cha)We can consider a number of bonus points equal to about 25% of the total.Then let's reduce a little the spell points at the higher level because at high levels spellcasters are already very powerfullFinally, these are the sorcerer base spell points:lvl 1: 10 lvl 2: 20 (go up by +10)lvl 3: 30lvl 4: 40 (go up by +20)lvl 5: 60lvl 6: 80 lvl 7: 100 (go up by +25)lvl 8: 125lvl 9: 150lvl 10: 180 (go up by +30)lvl 11: 210lvl 12: 240lvl 13: 270lvl 14: 300lvl 15: 330lvl 16: 360lvl 17: 390lvl 18: 420lvl 19: 450lvl 20: 480And the bonus spell points are equal to Cha bonus x level.For the wizard I'd reduce them by one third (because he's got more spells known. Now wizard memorizes the same number of spells but does not loose memorizations) For the problem of spells scaling in power with level, this is another issue, but I won't try to fix it tonight (maybe tomorrow)Note that another idea to reduce the abuse of higher level spells is to add some kind of fatigue in spellcasting (with a check that scales with level drastically). But now I was trying to keep it simple.</blockquote>

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