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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4450254" data-attributes="member: 19675">True, but I have only so much time.Choose whatever level you want- the formula is simple: SPR = A(2d6*1) + B(2d6*2) + C(2d6*3) +  D(2d6*4) + E(2d6*5) + F(2d6*6) + G(2d6*7) + H(2d6*8) + I(2d6*9)or simplified:SPR = A(2d6) + B(4d6) + C(6d6) + D(8d6) + E(10d6) + F(12d6) + G(14d6) + H(16d6) + I(18d6)Where the letters represent Spell slots of a given level, (Levels 1-9).Figure out what level you want, and go from there.  (Remember that unlike other MT-style classes, the UM doesn't have a uniform progression...at 1, 4, and 7, only one class gets boosted)I'm guessing its right as the S/W/UM PC is hitting the real power boost when he first gets access to 5th level spells. (See below.)Not quite.For the base classes, the breakdown is a nice, gently sloping curve.Wiz20 SPR/level breakdown:1st  8d62nd 16d63rd 24d6 4th 32d65th 40d66th 48d67th 56d68th 64d69th 72d6a nice, linear progression.Sorc5/FocSpecWiz5/Ultimate Magus10 SPR/level breakdown:1st  24d62nd 48d63rd 72d6 4th 96d65th 120d66th 132d67th 126d68th 96d69th 0d6You get a steep curve with an abrupt cliff.At the peak, a lot of SPR- 378 is grouped not at low levels, but rather at 5-7th level spells.  That's right...there is more SPR in those 3 levels than in the entirety of the Wiz 20.I know that.  Like I said, its not a perfect metric.  Not all spells are created equal, even within a given level, and across levels, you can get a wildly different potential power.  This metric reduces all of those potential variables down to a single, easily measured one.If it helps, consider this as an extreme abstraction of casters each with access to the best possible spells in identical situations.  Since each caster is casting the same spells, we need not consider variables within the mechanics of individual spells.  The 2d6/spell level per slot is our common denominator.But you're still talking more SPR in the S/W/UM PC's 8th level slots than in the Wiz20's 9th level slots.  If you look at those 9th level spells, more of them are of the oddball variety- Mass This, Greater That, and of course, Wish.  Its entirely probable that most of all results gotten from the casting of a 9th level spell could be gotten from a sufficient number of spells of 8th level.</blockquote>

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