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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5853876" data-attributes="member: 3424">My preference is for no spell levels whatsoever, but that would necessitate a few changes to the traditional D&amp;D magic system.First, a spell slot is a spell slot is a spell slot. Spell slots don't have levels. The game needs to be balanced around the idea that a spellcaster could fill up all his spell slots with the most powerful spells he knows, if he wants. Most likely, this would be achieved by drastically scaling down the number of spell slots that characters can have.Second, characters must meet prerequisites before they can learn advanced spells. For example, you might need to learn burning hands before you can learn fireball. Depending on the rate at which spells are normally gained, you can define prerequisites so that characters would only get to learn fireball at 5th level (or whatever) anyway. I know there probably doesn't seem to be very much difference between &quot;a spell that you need to be 5th level to learn&quot; and &quot;a 5th (or 3rd) level spell&quot;, but the former somehow seems less artificial to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 5853876, member: 3424"] My preference is for no spell levels whatsoever, but that would necessitate a few changes to the traditional D&D magic system. First, a spell slot is a spell slot is a spell slot. Spell slots don't have levels. The game needs to be balanced around the idea that a spellcaster could fill up all his spell slots with the most powerful spells he knows, if he wants. Most likely, this would be achieved by drastically scaling down the number of spell slots that characters can have. Second, characters must meet prerequisites before they can learn advanced spells. For example, you might need to learn [I]burning hands[/I] before you can learn [I]fireball[/I]. Depending on the rate at which spells are normally gained, you can define prerequisites so that characters would only get to learn [I]fireball[/I] at 5th level (or whatever) anyway. I know there probably doesn't seem to be very much difference between "a spell that you need to be 5th level to learn" and "a 5th (or 3rd) level spell", but the former somehow seems less artificial to me. [/QUOTE]

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