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<blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 1788612" data-attributes="member: 2810">I played Brother Temerius, the divine caster in Old One's game.&nbsp; It was my first 'live' experience with Grim Tales, so I was anxious to see how spellcasting worked.If you want to use the GT system in a high-magic setting, your player will have to take many, many levels in Smart/Dedicated/Charismatic.&nbsp; In order to be even moderately successful, they'll have to burn almost all their talent picks on 'Improved Caster Level', which is an Advanced Talent only available to those classes.&nbsp; To have a 50/50 chance of casting a 9th level spell, he'll have to have a Caster Level of 9 (1 base for Magical Adept, plus 8 from Increased Caster Level talents).&nbsp; 9th level spell = DC19 vs. d20+Caster Level.You suffer spell burn even on failures, and with a d6 burn die, he'll still likely take a pont or two every time he casts a spell.&nbsp; (More, if he rolls like I did&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> )&nbsp; A 10th level GT caster with max caster level and an 18 INT who tries to cast the equivalent of a 10th level wizard's full repetoire in a day is apt to be down 7 or 8 points of Strength, and he'll not have actually succeeded in casting all those spells.Furthermore, all spell effects that use 'caster level' as a variable will be halved over the equivalent D&amp;D wizard, whose caster level = class level most of the time.To succeed, a GT caster has to discipline himself to cast spells well below his maximum whenever possible, which is counter-intuitive to players used to D&amp;D type magic.One possible alternative would be to allow the caster to recover an amount of spell-burn damage equal to their casting stat bonus after a full nights rest.&nbsp; This would allow the cautious caster to function for an extended period without crippling himself, and would let him go all-out in an emergency without spending the next week having to be carried around on someone's back.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rodrigo Istalindir, post: 1788612, member: 2810"] I played Brother Temerius, the divine caster in Old One's game. It was my first 'live' experience with Grim Tales, so I was anxious to see how spellcasting worked. If you want to use the GT system in a high-magic setting, your player will have to take many, many levels in Smart/Dedicated/Charismatic. In order to be even moderately successful, they'll have to burn almost all their talent picks on 'Improved Caster Level', which is an Advanced Talent only available to those classes. To have a 50/50 chance of casting a 9th level spell, he'll have to have a Caster Level of 9 (1 base for Magical Adept, plus 8 from Increased Caster Level talents). 9th level spell = DC19 vs. d20+Caster Level. You suffer spell burn even on failures, and with a d6 burn die, he'll still likely take a pont or two every time he casts a spell. (More, if he rolls like I did :D ) A 10th level GT caster with max caster level and an 18 INT who tries to cast the equivalent of a 10th level wizard's full repetoire in a day is apt to be down 7 or 8 points of Strength, and he'll not have actually succeeded in casting all those spells. Furthermore, all spell effects that use 'caster level' as a variable will be halved over the equivalent D&D wizard, whose caster level = class level most of the time. To succeed, a GT caster has to discipline himself to cast spells well below his maximum whenever possible, which is counter-intuitive to players used to D&D type magic. One possible alternative would be to allow the caster to recover an amount of spell-burn damage equal to their casting stat bonus after a full nights rest. This would allow the cautious caster to function for an extended period without crippling himself, and would let him go all-out in an emergency without spending the next week having to be carried around on someone's back. [/QUOTE]

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