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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1509616" data-attributes="member: 63">Oh, well there's still the normal caster level MP limit.&nbsp; So if you're 5th level, you're not going to be able to spend more than 5 MP total on a single spell anyway.&nbsp; You could know 10 different Evoke spells, and you still couldn't cast Evoke Fire 6.Basically, it's a two-pronged balance.&nbsp; You're limited once by caster level, once by the number of spell lists you know of a given action type.&nbsp; You can't go over either of the limits.&nbsp; The spell-lists-known restriction is to encourage spending more than a single spell list in each field.&nbsp; It keeps a mage from just knowing one Heal list (Heal Life) and being able to use all the healing spells he'd ever want.&nbsp; It makes high-level magic have an extra prerequisite.Most mages, for instance, won't want to 'waste' lists on things like Heal Earth or Heal Air, because usually you'll be healing party members, which are [life] creatures, not air or earth elements (or walls of stone).&nbsp; This means that if the mages just want to have access to a little healing, then can get by with just the one spell list.&nbsp; Devoted healers, though, will take several lists, and will probably grab the Heal Specialist feat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 1509616, member: 63"] Oh, well there's still the normal caster level MP limit. So if you're 5th level, you're not going to be able to spend more than 5 MP total on a single spell anyway. You could know 10 different Evoke spells, and you still couldn't cast Evoke Fire 6. Basically, it's a two-pronged balance. You're limited once by caster level, once by the number of spell lists you know of a given action type. You can't go over either of the limits. The spell-lists-known restriction is to encourage spending more than a single spell list in each field. It keeps a mage from just knowing one Heal list (Heal Life) and being able to use all the healing spells he'd ever want. It makes high-level magic have an extra prerequisite. Most mages, for instance, won't want to 'waste' lists on things like Heal Earth or Heal Air, because usually you'll be healing party members, which are [life] creatures, not air or earth elements (or walls of stone). This means that if the mages just want to have access to a little healing, then can get by with just the one spell list. Devoted healers, though, will take several lists, and will probably grab the Heal Specialist feat. [/QUOTE]

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