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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Haggerty" data-source="post: 57089" data-attributes="member: 89">Here's another wrench to throw in the works...From the SRD, Magic Overview, Casting a Spell, Components:&quot;XP (XP Cost): Some powerful spells entail an experience point (XP) cost to the character. No spell, not even restoration, can restore the lost XP. The character cannot spend so much XP that the character loses a level, so the character cannotcast the spell unless the character has enough XP to spare. However, the character may, on gaining enough XP to attain a new level, use the XP for casting a spell rather than keeping the XP and advancing a level. The XP are treated just like amaterial component—expended when the character casts the spell, whether or not the casting succeeds.&quot;So.Say we have a Young Adult Red Dragon with no character levels and, as Dragon Magazine suggests, an ECL of +24.&nbsp; This means she could have up to perhaps 299,000 XP.Now, how do you determine how many of those XP can be spent on a spell, since she cannot spend so much XP that she loses a level, even though she has no real levels?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Haggerty, post: 57089, member: 89"] Here's another wrench to throw in the works... From the SRD, Magic Overview, Casting a Spell, Components: [i]"XP (XP Cost): Some powerful spells entail an experience point (XP) cost to the character. No spell, not even restoration, can restore the lost XP. The character cannot spend so much XP that the character loses a level, so the character cannot cast the spell unless the character has enough XP to spare. However, the character may, on gaining enough XP to attain a new level, use the XP for casting a spell rather than keeping the XP and advancing a level. The XP are treated just like a material component—expended when the character casts the spell, whether or not the casting succeeds."[/i] So. Say we have a Young Adult Red Dragon with no character levels and, as Dragon Magazine suggests, an ECL of +24. This means she could have up to perhaps 299,000 XP. Now, how do you determine how many of those XP can be spent on a spell, since she cannot spend so much XP that she loses a level, even though she has no real levels? [/QUOTE]

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