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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3197113" data-attributes="member: 141">There are various ways that spell slots can be used as resources: the Archmage is one example, the system of reserve feats is another.  My recollection of Spellfire is vague; did it use spell slots?  I think there are some Forgotten Realms spells that allow you to use spell slots for healing or blasting or whatever too.In an early version of [conjure] I floated the idea of "investing" spell slots in order to grant a duration to conjured magic items.  As long as you reserved a 9th level spell slot you could keep a mirror of mental prowess.  That would be yet another way of using spell slots as resources.Perhaps there can be a class of epic spells that work by occupying an epic spell slot; as long as you don't use that spell slot for something else, you get various abilities.  It would be very similar to a permanent spell that grants abilities, but couldn't be dispelled.  Of course if you got energy drained or lost massive amounts of intelligence or something you'd be hosed, but there's always a downside to any new trick.If I understand our system correctly, epic spell slots aren't prepared; Jake can cast any spell he knows.  We'd need a feat, Dedicated Spell, that changes this; it provides an epic spell slot, but can't be used spontaneously; the spell has to be prepared for it.  To compensate for this lack of flexibility, Dedicated Spell could provide a suite of benefits depending on the school of the epic spell that was prepared for this slot.  Perhaps the equivalent of a 4th or 5th level spell, usable at will.There might be different versions of Dedicated Spell, each with a different palette of spell-like abilities.  Some of these feats might also have prerequisites.  You could make a very rich school of magic this way.  It would probably step on the Warlock's feet a little, but that's OK.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Alternatively (or additionally) Epic spells could also be developed to provide benefits; probably price an additional +20 or so factor into them to make it into an unlimited spell-like ability.So Jake could cast a 30d6 blast 1/day at level 21.  Or he could cast that same spell at will at level 41.  Are these the kinds of things you were thinking of?</blockquote>

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