I just noticed something that, to me, is rather perplexing. Many prestige classes allow you to advance your spell-caster level in an existing class, and give you the rules on how to do so under the 'Spells per Day' description offered. Some of these classes instead give you a 'Spells per Day/Spells Known' description. For example, here is what is offered to an Archmage...
Spells per Day/Spells Known: When a new archmage level is gained, the character gains new spells per day (and spells known, if applicable) as if he had also gained a level in whatever arcane spellcasting class in which he could cast 7th-level spells before he added the prestige class level. He does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained. If a character had more than one arcane spellcasting class in which he could cast 7th-level spells before he became an archmage, he must decide to which class he adds each level of archmage for the purpose of determining spells per day.
Most spellcasting prestige classes, such as the Eldritch Knight, only give you a 'Spells per Day' offering, leaving out the 'Spells Known' portion. I always assumed that when advancing levels in these spellcasting prestige classes, a character who wished to advance his spellcaster level in, for example, the sorcerer class would automatically gain new Spells Known as if he had advanced in level as a sorcerer. But now that I've noticed that most such classes leave the 'spells known' portion out, it seems I may have been wrong.
Is this correct? In the Eldritch Knight example, would a sorcerer be wasting his time gaining levels in such a class? Would the sorcerer simply be increasing his spellcaster level, but gain no new spells known? I hope this isn't the case, because I feel the sorcerer is already at a disadvantage to the wizard and other full spellcasting classes, and this would only make matters worse, making most of the prestige classes I previously thought a good fit for a sorcerer no longer desirable.
Comments on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Spells per Day/Spells Known: When a new archmage level is gained, the character gains new spells per day (and spells known, if applicable) as if he had also gained a level in whatever arcane spellcasting class in which he could cast 7th-level spells before he added the prestige class level. He does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained. If a character had more than one arcane spellcasting class in which he could cast 7th-level spells before he became an archmage, he must decide to which class he adds each level of archmage for the purpose of determining spells per day.
Most spellcasting prestige classes, such as the Eldritch Knight, only give you a 'Spells per Day' offering, leaving out the 'Spells Known' portion. I always assumed that when advancing levels in these spellcasting prestige classes, a character who wished to advance his spellcaster level in, for example, the sorcerer class would automatically gain new Spells Known as if he had advanced in level as a sorcerer. But now that I've noticed that most such classes leave the 'spells known' portion out, it seems I may have been wrong.
Is this correct? In the Eldritch Knight example, would a sorcerer be wasting his time gaining levels in such a class? Would the sorcerer simply be increasing his spellcaster level, but gain no new spells known? I hope this isn't the case, because I feel the sorcerer is already at a disadvantage to the wizard and other full spellcasting classes, and this would only make matters worse, making most of the prestige classes I previously thought a good fit for a sorcerer no longer desirable.
Comments on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
