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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wachman" data-source="post: 315909" data-attributes="member: 6735">Ok, I’m trying to balance a prestige class I’m creating for a player in my game. This is for a sorcerer class character. The basic idea is the prestige class will trade higher level spells for more spells of lower levels. The class (as yet unnamed) would have the same hit dice, saves, and skill points as a sorcerer. Now, for my comparison, I used a lvl 20 Soc vs a lvl 10/10 soc/Prc.     The Prc Classs gains a +1 Caster level every 3 levels (1, 4, 7, 10). This effects spells per day, caster level, etc, But not spells known, a different table handles this. Now for the spells known, I had a hard time trying to come up with some neat formula. Finally here is what I came up with, its simple, at first glance seems overpowered, but stilled limited. At every level, the prestige class gains 1 new spell at every level he can cast. However, there are restrictions on what spells he may take. At 1st level he must choose one school, (abjur, conj, div, etc) he may only take spells from that school. At fourth level, he may choose a second school. Each new spell must be from only those two schools, and he must take at least one spell from each school. He picks another school at 7th, and a fourth at 10.    Now for some comparisons. A lvl 20 Soc has the following spells per day: 6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6, and has the following spells known 9/5/5/4/4/4/3/3/3/3. lvl10/10 only has only the following spells per day 6/6/6/6/6/6/5/3, but has the following spells known 19/15/14/13/12/11/7/1.     The prestige class has no 8th or 9th level spells, and knows only 1 7th level spell. He is also only a 14th level caster.  His spells are easier to dispel and he has a harder time dispell others spells. His spells do not last as long, or do as much damage. For example a delayed blast fireball, would only do 14d8, vs. 20d8 damage.         He does however, know more lower level spells, considerably more at 5th level and below. My basic question is, does the loss of the nearly all 7th level spell, and all 8th and 9th level spells balance the high number of lower level spells the class gets? The class would have more spells at his disposal, but not the real biggies, and not be as effective a caster a straight Soc. Also. His spell selection is somewhat specialized and he may be forced to take spells he normally wouldn’t.     Your comments, opinions, and suggestions are sought.</blockquote>

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