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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greybar" data-source="post: 3106930" data-attributes="member: 4938">thought from the morning commuteThis going to seem to start off as an non-Epic Magic thing, but it comes back to it, I promise.Bookkeeping.  The bane of many players, particularly at high levels.  Do really care what orisons my 35th level cleric has memorized?  If my 35th level wizard wants to sit in his library and use mage-hand to retrieve books from the shelves all day long, doesn't that fit the storytelling level of his power?  When my blessed saint of the faith walks down the streets, I want healing and blessings to pour forth from his touch effortlessly.Similarly, do 3rd level spell slots even really matter when epic spellcasters face off?  They're hardly worth buffing time.  They're just a drag on the system.  Now we had a proposal earlier  that epic casters should be able to burn lower spell levels slots to mitigate epic spells.  At least then they're useful for something.  But I have to juggle my numbers - do I still have a 3rd and two 2nd level slots free?  Does my epic spell have to specify exactly what lower levels that comes from, and become useless if I accidentially cast one too many 4th level spells?So...Additional Benefit 1:When you select this feat, spells of a level 10 lower than the newly gained slot become castable at will, as a Spell-Like Ability.  All spells known to the caster are available under this ability, without need for memorization.  Indeed, the caster no longer memorizes these spells at all.  Thus a wizard21 who takes this feat no longer memorizes cantrips (0 level spells), and can cast any cantrip he knows at will.Additional Benefit 2:When you select this feat, spells of a level 8 or more levels lower than the newly gained slot become pooled.  The pool has a value equal to the sum of all of the spell slots that meet the criteria - 0 level spells counting as 1/2 level, with final fractions being dropped.  The caster no longer memorizes specific spells within the pool, but instead can cast spells that he knows spontaneously, each time subtracting the spell level of the desired spell from the pool.  This pool is also used to provide spell levels to mitigate epic spells, with the limitation that he cannot pull more spell levels from the pool at one time than twice the value of his highest level slot.  The pool is replenished fulled at the same time that the caster renews his higher level spell slots.For example, a Wizard 21 of Int 24 who takes this feat no longer memorizes cantrips, 1st level, or 2nd level spells.  His pool is 22 spell levels (4x0.5 + 6x1 + 6x2).  If he chooses to cast a second level spell, the pool will drop to have 20 levels remaining.  If he then casts an epic spell that requires burning 10 spell levels, it drops to have 10 levels remaining.Upper level impact:This discussion is targetted at levels 20 to 40, so let's consider a level 40 wizard.  He's taken ISC as often as he can (21,24,27,30,33,36,39), and now has slots up to 16th level.  He can cast spells of 6th level at will spontaneously - allowing him to teleport at will (just like a outsider of a CR one-quarter his own).  He has a spell pool in the neighborhood of 113 spell levels, which he uses to cast 7th and 8th level spells.  He can burn a maximum of 32 spell levels out of his pool to fuel each epic spell.Extensions:Further feats might allow use of the pool to add metamagic effects, perhaps at a two-for-one exchange rate - spontanteously quickening for 8 spell levels, for instance.  The concept is fluid enough to allow such feats to be tuned without the bulky stratifications of spell levels.thoughts?</blockquote>

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