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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6566798" data-attributes="member: 6787650">How sure are you of that? Spell levels still exist even with the DMG spell point system; they affect which spells you can memorize and how much they cost. How does giving discrete resource pools for each spell level teach you more about what the spells can do?My experience with my own players is that spell points aren't harder for the new players to grasp than spell slots would be. &quot;You're 4th level, so you have 17 spell points.&quot; &quot;Invisibility is 2nd level, so it costs 3 spell points.&quot; SP are similar to HP, so there's no extra learning curve there. I suspect it's conceptually easier than &quot;you have 2 spell slots that can only be spent on 2nd level spells and 1st level spells cast as 2nd level spells, and then 4 more for only 1st level spells. But both of those must be used for spells prepared, of which you can have only 7 of any level. No, casting a spell doesn't make you forget it; it's still prepared, it just costs a slot.&quot; But I have no way to test that suspicion, it just seems that way to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6566798, member: 6787650"] How sure are you of that? Spell levels still exist even with the DMG spell point system; they affect which spells you can memorize and how much they cost. How does giving discrete resource pools for each spell level teach you more about what the spells can do? My experience with my own players is that spell points aren't harder for the new players to grasp than spell slots would be. "You're 4th level, so you have 17 spell points." "Invisibility is 2nd level, so it costs 3 spell points." SP are similar to HP, so there's no extra learning curve there. I suspect it's conceptually [I]easier[/I] than "you have 2 spell slots that can only be spent on 2nd level spells and 1st level spells cast as 2nd level spells, and then 4 more for only 1st level spells. But both of those must be used for spells [I]prepared[/I], of which you can have only 7 of any level. No, casting a spell doesn't make you forget it; it's still prepared, it just costs a [I]slot[/I]." But I have no way to test that suspicion, it just seems that way to me. [/QUOTE]

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