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<blockquote data-quote="Kinematics" data-source="post: 7345946" data-attributes="member: 6932123"><p>Errata:</p><p></p><p>Magic Initiate (p. 168). The feat’s limit on casting the 1st-level spell applies only to the casting given by the feat</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sage Advice compendium:</p><p></p><p>Magic Initiate</p><p>If you’re a spellcaster, can you pick your own class when you gain the Magic Initiate feat? </p><p>- Yes, the feat doesn’t say you can’t. For example, if you’re a wizard and gain the Magic Initiate feat, you can choose wizard and thereby learn two more wizard cantrips and another 1st-level wizard spell.</p><p></p><p>If you have spell slots, can you use them to cast the 1st level spell you learn with the Magic Initiate feat?</p><p>- Yes, but only if the class you pick for the feat is one of your classes. For example, if you pick sorcerer and you are a sorcerer, the Spellcasting feature for that class tells you that you can use your spell slots to cast the sorcerer spells you know, so you can use your spell slots to cast the 1st-level sorcerer spell you learn from Magic Initiate. Similarly, if you are a wizard and pick that class for the feat, you learn a 1st-level wizard spell, which you could add to your spellbook and subsequently prepare. In short, you must follow your character’s normal spellcasting rules, which determine whether you can expend spell slots on the 1st-level spell you learn from Magic Initiate.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So in other words, you have a once-per-day, slot-free casting of the spell due to the feat itself, and any-times-per-day casting of the spell using spell slots, if the spell is gained for one of your existing classes, subject to the limitations of your spellcasting.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I guess the level 12 Bard or Sorcerer who picked their own class for Magic Initiate would effectively have the number of spells of a level 16 Bard or Sorcerer? If that's the case, the number of first and second level slots wouldn't change, and you'd instead get more higher level slots. Or do they get a 'fake' level 4 Bard|Sorcerer worth of spell slots, in addition to their normal ones?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kinematics, post: 7345946, member: 6932123"] Errata: Magic Initiate (p. 168). The feat’s limit on casting the 1st-level spell applies only to the casting given by the feat Sage Advice compendium: Magic Initiate If you’re a spellcaster, can you pick your own class when you gain the Magic Initiate feat? - Yes, the feat doesn’t say you can’t. For example, if you’re a wizard and gain the Magic Initiate feat, you can choose wizard and thereby learn two more wizard cantrips and another 1st-level wizard spell. If you have spell slots, can you use them to cast the 1st level spell you learn with the Magic Initiate feat? - Yes, but only if the class you pick for the feat is one of your classes. For example, if you pick sorcerer and you are a sorcerer, the Spellcasting feature for that class tells you that you can use your spell slots to cast the sorcerer spells you know, so you can use your spell slots to cast the 1st-level sorcerer spell you learn from Magic Initiate. Similarly, if you are a wizard and pick that class for the feat, you learn a 1st-level wizard spell, which you could add to your spellbook and subsequently prepare. In short, you must follow your character’s normal spellcasting rules, which determine whether you can expend spell slots on the 1st-level spell you learn from Magic Initiate. So in other words, you have a once-per-day, slot-free casting of the spell due to the feat itself, and any-times-per-day casting of the spell using spell slots, if the spell is gained for one of your existing classes, subject to the limitations of your spellcasting. I guess the level 12 Bard or Sorcerer who picked their own class for Magic Initiate would effectively have the number of spells of a level 16 Bard or Sorcerer? If that's the case, the number of first and second level slots wouldn't change, and you'd instead get more higher level slots. Or do they get a 'fake' level 4 Bard|Sorcerer worth of spell slots, in addition to their normal ones? [/QUOTE]
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