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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Panda" data-source="post: 6953513" data-attributes="member: 6861845">The difficulty would not be converting spell slots to points, that calculation is extremely simple. The complications that come in are balance concerns. A pure sorcerer is fairly underpowered in comparison to a wizard, but when multiclassed his primary weakness is ameliorated. Further, if a level in sorcerer gets you spell points in lieu of slots, most casting classes would probably want to get a level of sorcerer to utilize that system even if they aren't interested in actually being sorcerers. Spell points offer more power and versatility than spell slots, simply put. Also, I believe you misunderstood my idea, Defcon. I wasn't suggesting the pool of spell points replace both slots and sorcery points, but just spell slots. So they wouldn't end up resource starved. They'd have their sorcery points in addition to their spell points, and the two would be interchangeable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Panda, post: 6953513, member: 6861845"] The difficulty would not be converting spell slots to points, that calculation is extremely simple. The complications that come in are balance concerns. A pure sorcerer is fairly underpowered in comparison to a wizard, but when multiclassed his primary weakness is ameliorated. Further, if a level in sorcerer gets you spell points in lieu of slots, most casting classes would probably want to get a level of sorcerer to utilize that system even if they aren't interested in actually being sorcerers. Spell points offer more power and versatility than spell slots, simply put. Also, I believe you misunderstood my idea, Defcon. I wasn't suggesting the pool of spell points replace both slots and sorcery points, but just spell slots. So they wouldn't end up resource starved. They'd have their sorcery points in addition to their spell points, and the two would be interchangeable. [/QUOTE]

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